Category Archives: News blog

Everyday life in the kingdom: Beating spanish republicans

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. From Periodismo Humano … A demonstration on the 4th of October,  organised by the … Continue reading

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Claiming property as use: House okupations in Madrid

The occupation of empty, bank owned houses in spain, under the name of Obra Social, appeared in the wake of the creation 15M neighbourhood assemblies and parallel movements that came together initially to address the mass evictions in the country, … Continue reading

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Anti-fascism in spain (2): Reading events with Pasolini

La rivoluzione non è più che un sentimento. Pasolini, Progetto di opere future The eviction by the judicial police of the Hogar Social Madrid Ramiro Ledesma, in the neighbourhood of Tetuán, on the 19th of September, on order of the … Continue reading

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Possibilities/fragilities under the umbrellas of hong kong’s rebellion

 If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them.  If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching In an effort to diffuse alternative readings of … Continue reading

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Off with the kilts: The scottish referendum on independence

The rose of all the world is not for me. I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart. Hugh MacDiarmid, The Little White Rose One may be forgiven … Continue reading

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Morocco: Racist Attacks in Boukhalef

… totalitarianism makes people superfluous as human beings. Hannah Arendt Originally posted on No Borders Morocco. The violence in Boukhalef, a quarter of Tangier in the North of Morocco, has reached a new dimension. Friday night, the 29th of August, … Continue reading

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Anti-fascism in spain: Tetuán, Madrid

As well as the fascism of concentration camps …, new forms of molecular fascism are developing: the crematoria of Belsen can be satisfactorily replaced with the small furnaces of the family, the school, racism, ghettos of all sorts. All over … Continue reading

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Creating through resistance: The ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Since the winter of 2012-2013, the Notre-Dame-des Landes resistance/okupation against the french government’s plan to build an airport in the midst of agricultural and forest lands has met with ongoing opposition.  We chronicle here some of that continuing creativity, since … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class war in spain: suicide

By chosing voluntary death we cast off the burden of our existence and refuse to simply survive. Jean Amery, On Suicide: A Discourse On Voluntary Death From the Stop Desahucios (Stop Evictions) of 15M Granada, comes the news of the suicide of Gustavo Arguellas Calvo … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class war in spain: okupation and resistance

Social movements form around problems. We don’t mean this in a simple functionalist fashion, as if there is a pre-existent problem which then produces a social movement that, in turn, forces the state or capital to respond and solve the … Continue reading

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