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Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH): An anniversary of resistance
The Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) of Barcelona celebrated this last Sunday, February 22, its 6th anniversary, and it did so with a protest march, music, and the occupation of a block of apartments owned by the spain’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain
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Scenes from the class struggle in spain
(Photograph by DISO press) Capitalism is a form of government that mobilises power through war. The field of conflict is not marked by a battle front, but is played out in the everyday of each one of us. In this … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascism, Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain
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The political bestiary of capitalism: Syriza, parliamentary democracy, the welfare state, and other creatures too frightful to mention
The less than flattering history of social-democratic, socialist and communist governments is more than ample reason to be skeptical about the election of a “left wing” Syriza led government in greece; and if not, at least to suggest cautious restraint … Continue reading
Okupations without borders: The ExMoi occupation in Turin
Squatting is politically significant as part of a conscious project to contest the sanctity of private property, the exclusive role of the State in securing rights and providing for social needs, as experiments in autonomous self-management, which multiplied, both create … Continue reading
A cinema of resistance: René Vautier
Not so long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives. The former had the Word; the others had the use of it. … It came to an end; … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, colonialism and anti-colonialism, René Vautier
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Solidarity with CSA Dordoni
The social center Dordoni in Cremona was attacked on Sunday night by fascists from the extreme right wing group CasaPound, which aspire since 2003 to revive fascist values in Italy. The clashes, under the supervision of the police, left one … Continue reading
On the Greek Elections etc
The following is not meant to be an exhaustive, well researched piece of writing. Rather, these are reflections, based on impressions, more put together on the spur of the moment, responses to a variety of ideas and words floating in … Continue reading
Testimonials from a revolution in Rojava
The Autonomies Collective has assumed no open position on the “Rojava Revolution” for reasons of ignorance. In the absence of consistent information on what is happening in the region, as well as its complexity, we have abstained from judging or … Continue reading
For Charlie Hebdo
Profanation … neutralises what it profanes. Once profaned, that which was unavailable and separate loses its aura and is returned to use … [It] deactivates the apparatuses of power and returns to common use the spaces that power had seized. … Continue reading
Construyendo pueblo fuerte: Spreading anarchist organisation
Initiatives to bring together libertarian activists, or those sympathetic with it, multiply in spain (Federación Estudiantil Libertaria, Espacio Libertario de Madrid, and so on). On the 19th of February, in Madrid, a collective calling itself Construyendo pueblo fuerte (Constructing a … Continue reading →