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Imagining/Creating Autonomy: Abraham Guillén
The struggle to imagine and put into place an autonomous, self-managed society is at the heart of anarchism, and for anarchists, something that is present in any revolutionary politics, whether of the past or the present. During the spanish revolution … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Guillén, Alternative Economies, Spanish Revolution
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In memory of Eric Hobsbawm
In memory, but also in celebration, of the work of someone from which many learned and will continue to do so. Eric Hobsbawm died on the 1st of October. This is not a testimony of agreement on all matters – … Continue reading
Updates from Greece — Economies against Capitalism
While resistance in Greece against the capitalist onslaught is still going strong, another side of the struggle, one that is less visible in the media, is emerging — we might say a positive moment in the dialectics of the revolution. … Continue reading
Talking about a revolution!
If resistance must bring with it a new way to live, a life more liveable that opposes itself to the differential distribution of precariousness, then acts of resistance will say no to a way of life at the same time … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, 25S ocupar el congresso, Alternative Economies, Okupations, revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Anarchy’s dancing friends
for n.m.and a.b. for the members of the Paideia collective Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. John Steinbeck Friendship, this relation … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Bakunin, Colin Ward, Cornelius Castoriadis, Emma Goldman, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Paul Goodman, revolution
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Un desalojo, otra okupación
Colin Ward, writing of the post WWII british squatters movement, he came to identify four phases in squatting understood as a form of direct action to the housing problem in non-revolutionary situations. There is first the initiative, the action that … Continue reading
The Politics of the Body: Visions from 15M
For a revolution from and for a self-management of our bodies, of our lives, of our decisions and other spaces. We affirm our bodies as territories that reject any form of colonization. Comisión Transfeminista Benimaclet (Valencia) The body as … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Feminism, LGBT, spain, Spanish Revolution
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How do we escape The Castle within us?
In an excellent article that appeared recently in Adbusters (07/09/2012), Andy Merrifield explores the difficulty of thinking/acting insurrection in a society-spectacle where the outside the system has vanished, where the inside is all that remains and where rebellion is the … Continue reading
A tentação do poder: Ocupar um congresso, ou não ocupar, eis a questão!
The following is an effort to intervene in a debate that arose recently in spain, among a great number of social movements, associations, collectivities, before a call by a group calling itself Plataforma ¡En Pie! to occupy the country's parliament … Continue reading
Updates from Greece – Taking over the factories
The ceaseless magmatic revolt of the Greek proletariat has been adding to the visceral street battles creative economic projects (see previous Updates from Greece) and now a concentrated battle for the occupation of a major industrial factory. While for the … Continue reading →