Category Archives: News blog

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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Apoyo Mutuo: Organising anarchy

  Three weeks before spanish municipal elections, Apoyo Mutuo (Mutual Aid) appears as a tool that transforms into a political actor all of those persons who do not see themselves represented in the institutional path of politics.  On the 9th of … Continue reading

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Remembering revolutions past: Vietnam, 1975

The “third world” seems a distant place under the rule of “neoliberal” capitalism.  And yet the term once conveyed not denigration or humiliation, but revolution, the revolutions of colonised peoples against an arrogant and brutal colonial and neocolonial “first world”.  … Continue reading

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Taking back labour: Workers’ resistance and factory okupations in turkey

Labour struggles of workers continually strain against the limits of legality and labour union domestication.  If salaried work, as traditionally understood, is not the exclusive domain of capitalist exploitation, it nevertheless remains central.  And as workers discover, at times literally … Continue reading

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