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Migration: The freedom and death of bare life
Hannah Arendt once spoke of the phenomenon of mass refugee migration in the wake of the first world war as a testimony to the limits of any politics of human rights. Stripped of nationality, stateless, the refugee migrant embodies the … Continue reading
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: Evictions and deportations … and resistance
The State employs whatever means available to it to protect the free flow capital. The flow of capital however requires restricting the movement of people, such that unequal possibilities of economic development, or exploitation, are assured. The eviction of squatters … Continue reading
For Eduardo Galeano
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words She is on the horizon. I walk … Continue reading
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The prohibition and repression of dissent
On the 15th of June of 2011, a large protest was organised by the popular assemblies of 15M Barcelona, born during the occupation of Plaza de Catalunya, to peacefully “block” the proceedings of the the Parliament of Catalonia, and so disturb … Continue reading
Operación Piñata: The police hunt for anarchists in spain continues
Spanish authorities have again targeted anarchists, arresting 13 on the grounds of belonging to criminal organisations with terrorist aims and 25 others for resisting the police. Early morning, on the 30th of March, on orders from the Juzgado Central … Continue reading
From student strikes to social strikes: Echoes of a new québec spring
Against austerity, against the savaging of the public-state services, a commons built through decades of popular struggles against Capital, Québec students, workers, the unemployed, have called for an indefinite social strike in the province, beginning on the 21st of March, … Continue reading
In solidarity with the occupied factory Vio.Me.
The two years old Vio.Me. factory occupation in Thessaloniki, greece, a radical experiment in workers self-management and community solidarity, is threatened by a court decision which risks forcing the liquidation of machinery and factory premises. If the decision goes … Continue reading
Interrupting capital: Blockupy in Frankfurt
The aim was disruption; not a demonstration as normal event, a weekend affair to idle away one’s idleness. As Blockupy announced, the March 18th intervention against the inaugural ceremony of the European Central Bank’s new headquarter’s building, was directed at interrupting … Continue reading
Okupations and strikes amidst students: Amsterdam and Toronto
With each passing day of the New University/Amsterdam student occupation, the movement resonantes locally and beyond the country’s borders. The commodification of education is global; if restrained in the past, it is today without leash, and runs amok among the … Continue reading
Taking back labour: Factory okupations in europe
The limits of workers managed factories in the midst of capitalist economic relations are well known: the inability to acquire or control resources and supplies for production, the need to continue to produce for existing markets, the need to compete … Continue reading →