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Pacifying the Rebellious: The War Against the Coal Miners
With their jobs condemned to disappear, their communities to be destroyed, the coal miners' of spain struggle against the logic of capital. The manner in which they become disposable is a fate that can touch all of us. Their fight … Continue reading
Agrarian Revolution in Andalucia
And it will again be by the working in common of the soil that the enfranchised societies will find their unity and will obliterate the hatred and oppression which has hitherto divided them. Peter Kropotkin On the 4th of … Continue reading
La Marcha Negra de los mineros en España
On the 22 of June, coal miners from the Asturias, Castilla and León, and Aragón set off on a march on Madrid, in protest against the closing of the mines. Video and text about the strike and the march … Continue reading
Banks are bailed out and Families are evicted: Okupations under 15M’s spain
15M, almost since its beginning, has joined other social movements to prevent the eviction of families from houses that they can no longer aford, as a consequence of unemployment. It is a politics of okupation, which in itself, or … Continue reading
The Poetic Imagery of Yiannis Biliris
… a photograph is not only an image, an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real … Susan Sontag The photography and video of Yiannis Bilris of the protests/insurrection … Continue reading
Posted in Film, News blog, Poiesis
Tagged Art and Revolution, greece, Yiannis Biliris
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Between Protest and Creation: 15M’s spain
How do we stop making capitalism? How do we free our doing from the labour by which we create and re-create a world that is killing us? John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power The Long … Continue reading
Posted in News blog
Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, greece, labour, LGBT, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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News from nowhere: 15M’s spain
Merely negative action inevitably engages with capital on capital’s own terms, and on capital’s terms we shall always lose, even when we win. …The problem of struggle is to move onto a different dimension from capital, not to engage with … Continue reading
Posted in News blog
Tagged 15M, Alternative Economies, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Reelnews reports: “It’s still like being in a war zone – Immigrants in Greece”
The state governs through division and exclusion. It is an identity constructing machine that establishes the border between those who belong and those who do not. For those who fall outside its’ rule, outside of the rule of all states, … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Film, News blog
Tagged anti-fascism, greece, migration, racism
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Salute! Bangladeshi Workers Resist
Some of us used to say that the Revolution will be international or not at all. While we don't expect the revolution to happen at once, globally, linking the struggles as they happen (and at all times trying to create … Continue reading
Reform or Revolution in 15M’s spain
… when a company, corporation or state is not considered a legitimate partner for negotiation, then it makes no sense to appeal to that authority for a negotiated settlement. Judith Butler, Tidal 2 The old question of reform or … Continue reading →