Category Archives: News blog

15M’s spain: In the balance of protest and creation

15M continues to walk the limenal space between political contestation and the construction of other worlds … a space without identity, always in the making … the space of autonomy …

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Making worlds with casseroles: The quebec student movement

A collection of essays (Wi: Journal of Mobile Media: Out of the mouths of “casseroles”: textes qui bougent au rythme du carré rouge) speaks of the radical possibilities emergent within the Quebec student movement.  The perspectives and positioning on/in the … Continue reading

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The Tyranny of Debt

  Capitalism is an economic-political system of dependency and wage slavery.  Debt is one of the system´s instruments for the domestication and domination of human beings.  It constrains freedom and creativity, it generates fear, it discplines and shapes, through a … Continue reading

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The war against okupations: La Cantera de Vicálvaro

Okupied in early March of this year, the building that became Espacio Vecinal Okupado y Autogestionado LA CANTERA, in the province of Madrid,  was cleared by the police on the 26th of July, in an ongoing struggle against what all such … Continue reading

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Thinking 15M

The spanish edition of Le Monde Diplomatique (July/2012) carries a very good analysis/evaluation of 15M.  the text follows in spanish …

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Land to use, land to work, land for freedom

After Somonte, the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as promoted a further okupation of public lands (24/07), military in this instance, known as Las Turquillas, as an act of resistance against idle public wealth, unemployment and the domination of marginalisation and poverty.  The … Continue reading

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The metamorphosis of a student movement: #YoSoy132

Interview with Enrique Polanca of #YoSoy132, by Lorena Aguilar for Kaos en la Red (Domingo, 22 de Julio de 2012 02:10) …

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Os quiero, os respeto, os necesito … 15M´s spain

Becoming "wild" is always an erotic act, an act of nakedness.                                Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone The days and weeks of the white heat of summer bring illusions and hallucinations in their wake, visions of metamorphoses.  Our dreams … Continue reading

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From protest to protest … radicalising the general strike in 15M´s spain

In some 80 cities in spain, over one million people protested the latest government budget cuts.  Called by the principal labour unions of the country, minority unions, social movements and 15M joined the protest as a "critical bloc", to distinguish themselves … Continue reading

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Share Our Future – The CLASSE Manifesto

  This summer, the Québec student union CLASSE (La Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale) sets out across the province to share/explain to as many as possible the reasons for, the goals and hopes, of the student movement …

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