Category Archives: News blog

Not fighting for nature, but nature fighting back: Okupying trees in the ZAD of Roybon

The okupation of forests, river valleys, peasant farm lands through the constitution of autonomous, self-managed self-defense communities, as resistance to capitalist infrastructure development, have become emblematic of france’s ZADs.  If the ZADS of Notre-Dames-des-Landes and Testet call forth memories of … Continue reading

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The kratia against the demos: Lessons from greece

Our refrain becomes repetitive: capitalism cannot be reformed because a system of oppression, appropriation and exploitation cannot be fundamentally altered by state authorities that are not only beholden to it, but are an expression of it.  The illusion to the … Continue reading

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For a radical gay pride

Perhaps the time has come to live our corporeality rather than speak our sexuality. Guy Hocquenghem, The Screwball Asses In solidarity with all gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgenders, queers, and intersex who are harassed, beaten, criminalised, arrested, imprisoned, tortured … Continue reading

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A blinding referendum: Voting “no” in greece

Sunday’s referendum results in greece, a “no” to the austerity measures proposed by the Eurogroup responsible for negotiating the country’s debt payments,  testify to a sentiment among most of indignation and refusal of a politics that has reduced over the … Continue reading

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Our responsibility to vote ‘NO’ in the Greek referendum

With the upcoming referendum in greece and in our ongoing effort to share reflections on the efforts of the Syriza government to negotiate its way through Capital and “popular” government, an impossible task in our view, we post below an … Continue reading

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El patio maravillas: Struggles for an urban commons

Amongst this population, men, women, animals, age, sex, health, sickness, all seemed communal; everything fitted together, was merged, mingled and superimposed; everyone was a part of everything. Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris The struggle of okupations in the city is part … Continue reading

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Antifenix: A call for solidarity

With czech anarchists arrested during “operation fenix”, we share the following message, in solidarity …

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Economies of solidarity in spain: Red de Economia Alternativa y Solidaria

What would be the nature of a non/anti-capitalist economy today?  What characteristics would it possess?  How would production be carried out?  Would only socially necessary goods be produced?  And what is a socially necessary good?  How would distribution be effected? … Continue reading

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La lucha sigue en la calle: Spain’s 15M four years on

The shur indians , the so called jíbaros, cut off the heads of the vanquished.  They would cut them and shrink them until they could be held in a fist, so that the vanquished does not resuscitate.  But the vanquished … Continue reading

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Anarchists organise everywhere: The catalan anarchist federation

We share and translate news from the A las barricadas (04/05/2015), about the Anarchist Federation of Catalonia, one more effort to bring together libertarian interventions in society …

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