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Recuperation as eviction, resistance as occupation
“Spain shows again that it has regained the confidence of the markets.” (Le Monde 04/05/2014) The interest rate on the spanish debt, at ten years, has dropped below 3%, Madrid’s stock market registers an increase in value of 25.58% over … Continue reading
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Tagged Occupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain
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Occupy everthing!
To the question “What is property?”, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously answered, “It is theft”. That it could be taken for a right was already a conceptual confusion, for unlike liberty, equality, integrity of person, the “right” to property was not unqualified. … Continue reading
All power to the plenums: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s insurrection
Generalised self-management is simply the totality in accordance with which the councils unitarily inaugurate a style of life based on permanent and collective imagination … Raoul Vaneigem … power does not define itself only by its capacity to make itself … Continue reading
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Tagged bosnia and herzegovina, Communism, insurrection, rebellion
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The ethics of disobedience: 22M Madrid, The March of Dignity
A state is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.” … Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, … Continue reading
Rule by murder: For Berkin Elvan
; The State and Capitalism do not kill by accident, consequence of inattention or moral failure. The domination and appropriation of human creativity can only be violent, whether it be the violence of its law, institutionalised, or the violence of securing it. … Continue reading
Nuit et Brouillard: For Alain Resnais
In memory of Alain Resnais who died this last March the 3rd … In 1933, Walter Benjamin could write of the technology of war unleashed upon those who fought during WWI, that it destroyed human experience, the very thing which … Continue reading
Utopia or submission: La Corrala la Utopia
Capital is a system of social relations of extraction. Its success is based on the appropriation of nature and of the collective of creativity of all of those who labour. Whether it is land, energies housed beneath its surface, seas, … Continue reading
Amidst the art of May 68: L’Atelier Populaire de Paris
Une action revolutionaire dans la culture ne saurait avoir pour but de traduire ou d’expliquer la vie, mais de l’élargir. Guy Debord L’œuvre d’art à venir, c’est la construction d’une vie passionnante. Raoul Vaneigem A l’atelier populaire, c’est un climat … Continue reading
Tales from the everyday of capitalism: Lavapiés, Madrid
At 7:20 in the morning, on the 31st if January, the riot police of the munincipal authorities of Madrid closed off the street, calle Tribulete in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés, to execute the eviction of Antonio Argobia, a 54 year … Continue reading
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Tagged Okupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, rebellion
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An anniversary of lives in movement: Spain’s 15M
The upcoming 15th of May marks a commemoration, not of anniversary of a past reality, but of a present, in movement. Spain’s 15M, over three years, has multiplied, proliferated, metamorphosised; to become not larger in numbers, but in deeper in … Continue reading →