Category Archives: News blog

Taking Rome: Okupation as Revolution

This last 6th of December, eight new occupations of buildings and houses took place in Rome.  This was not a spontaneous, momentary explosion, but a premeditated collective step that allowed some 2000 families to be sheltered.  That many have been … Continue reading

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The ZAD is Everywhere: The Autonomies of Protest in Notre-Dame-des-Landes

“On veut inventer un nouveau mode de vie … On s’oppose au projet d’aéroport et au monde qui va avec, au système qui le porte …  C’est un projet emblématique d’une logique d’aménagement du territoire autoritaire, qui contrôle les vies et détruit les … Continue reading

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Strikes against Capitalism

ParkeHarrison Flying Lesson (2000) The State is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another.  It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. Gustav Landauer The struggle … Continue reading

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The freedom of curves: Oscar Niemeyer

POEMA DA CURVA Não é o ângulo reto que me atrai,Nem a linha reta, dura, inflexível criada pelo o homem.O que me atrai é a curva livre e sensual.A curva que encontro no curso sinuoso dos nossos rios,nas nuvens do … Continue reading

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The Roots of Okupation

On November 17th was announced another okupation in Madrid and the creation of a new Self-Managed Okupied Social Centre.  The new okupation now carries a name: the CSOA Raíces, or Roots.  Roots, because radical, because okupations contest the very foundations … Continue reading

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A war without end: The eviction of La Gotera

    The fractures of modern society are many.  The factory/latifundia of the 19th century have been replaced by the 21st century city as the space of contestation.  The proletariat is now inclusive of workers, as well as of the … Continue reading

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Rebelling against property: the PAH

The PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, predating the emergence of 15M in spain has been, with 15M’s neighbourhood assemblies in various cities, been one of the most emblematic protagonists in the popular efforts to resist the power of … Continue reading

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14N: Images, Resonances and Reflections

  The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of exception" in which we live is the rule.  We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this.  Then it will become clear that the task … Continue reading

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From Roarmag: “Utopia on the Horzon”

ROAR presents ‘Utopia on the Horizon’, a documentary on the Greek debt crisis and anti-austerity movement, dedicated to those who chose to struggle.

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Strike, Rebellion, Revolution continue … new okupations!

In the wake of the general strike of the 14th of November, in the wake of protests, okupations, creations of alternatives under the inspiration of 15M, in the wake of social movements which over the course of years have endeavoured … Continue reading

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