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From factory occupations to revolution?
The occupation of factories, of the industrial fabric of a society, is essential to any broad revolutionary movement against State-Capital. It is however by no means sufficient. Occupations can only be a part of a more general effort to create … Continue reading
Grândola Vila Morena: 2nd of March
On March the 2nd, a million and a half people in portugal filled the cities’ streets to the music of Zeca Afonso’s Grandola Vila Morena. The song thus resonates from a historical moment in the country’s imaginary, the Revolution of … Continue reading
Reflections amid violence
(Photograph by Francesca Oggiano, from the series The Stolen Eyes) in memory of Walter Benjamin for n.m. A historical materialist approaches a historical subject only where he encounters it as a monad. In this structure he recognizes the sign … Continue reading
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Tagged messianic politics, Quebec Student Movement, revolution, Violence, Walter Benjamin
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Žižek dreaming, or Žižek, the dialectical trickster
“…one should learn the art of recognizing, from an engaged subjective position, elements which are here, in our space, but whose time is the emancipated future …” Slavoj Žižek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Reflecting on the year 2011, a year … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, revolution, Slavoj Žižek, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The tides of change: spain’s “mareas”
On the 17th of February, over half a million people took to the streets of spain’s cities in a protest against cuts to the budget of the country’s public health services. It was but only the most recent example of … Continue reading
Chronicles from our future present: greece
In the midst of the horrors of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg, citing Friedrich Engels’ statement that “Capitalist society faces a dilemma, either an advance to socialism or a reversion to barbarism”, posed the question, “What does a ‘reversion … Continue reading
Creating Revolution: 15M through images
Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does. It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world. The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Art and Revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The insurrection of occupations
(photograph by Olmo Calvo) As the violence of State-Capital displays itself in spain – 6 million unemployed, cuts to public social services, 500 hundred daily home evictions, with their attendant tragedies of homelessness, destroyed families, suicides – the defense of … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Okupations, Olmo Calvo, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca
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Updates from Greece: In Solidarity with the Occupying Workers of Industrial Mineral (Vio.Me)
"…only through a network of self-managed factories will Vio.Me be able to survive and light the way towards a different organisation of production and the economy, with no exploitation, inequality or hierarchy" http://biom-metal.blogspot.gr/ The struggle in Greece is … Continue reading
Revolution from below: Cooperativa Integral Catalana
In continuity with an earlier post about an initiative that originated in Catalonia calling for the creation of an international network/space for the ideological and practical elaboration of autonomies beyond capitalism (integrarevolució), a return to one of the groups, members … Continue reading →