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Rebel neighbourhoods: Vallcarca, Barcelona
As we once wrote of Madrid’s Carabanchel neighbourhood … “There are cities where particular neighbourhoods guard a memory of past disobedience and rebellion. They were in the past often referred to as working-class neighbourhoods, or quartiers populaires, to employ the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anarchism, gentrification, revolution, spain
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On the road
Nature is always historical and capitalism (as all social relations of the past) is always in nature. There is no pristine, untouched nature to return to today (against neo-primitivisms), nor a non-human nature to serve as standard for our development … Continue reading
On the death of a portuguese “revolutionary”: Mario Soares and the inseparability of ideology and reality
For every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History It is a mistake to understand ideology as something … Continue reading
Turkey: Meydan anarchists: “we are being cornered”
Late last month the editor of Meydan anarchist newspaper in Istanbul was sentenced to a year and three months in prison for “supporting terror,” the latest in a string of attempts by the Turkish State to shut down dissenting voices against … Continue reading
For John Berger (1926-2017)
For John Berger, for all that he taught us about how to see …
In solidarity: Editor of turkish anarchist paper jailed for “terror propaganda”
From Freedom News … The editor of Meydan Gazette in Istanbul was jailed for a year and three months on December 22nd for “propagandising the methods of a terror organisation” in a free-speech case which dragged on for nearly a … Continue reading
Anarchism in the streets: Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC)
Get into the neighbourhoods, don’t be afraid of hostility, suspicion, quarrels and base passions, that, I assure you, you will encounter. Take advantage rather of the fact that the virtual recuperation penetrates even into those with an empty stomach. Seek … Continue reading
Fidel Castro and the fetishism of power
Talking to us of homeland and freedom is a waste of time unless they start by guaranteeing our independence as individuals; we are not about to redeem the homeland while we are all left slaves. The measure of the homeland’s … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Che Guevara, cuba, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, revolution, third world
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Standing with Standing Rock
“State security services in North Dakota have used tear gas and water hoses against hundreds of activists protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters also reported being hit with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, ecology, Indigenous peoples, Okupations, rebellion
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Vio.Me, Greece: Creating solidarities within and beyond factory walls
In the past, we have shared, in the english language, news and reflections on the Vio.Me factory occupation-coorperative, in Thessaloniki. If the occupation remains legally precarious, Vio.Me now stands as an example in europe not only of workers’ self-management, but … Continue reading →