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Tag Archives: 15M
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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Tagged 15M, Carlos Taibo, General Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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And protests rain upon the government of spain
Between the coal miners’ strike and protests, spontaneous and organised, against the spanish government’s most recent efforts to reduce spending (increase in sales tax, reduction in the salaries of civil servants, reduction in unemployment insurance, and the like, adding up … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike … and questions
“We do not struggle as working class, we struggle against being working class … . Our struggle is not the struggle of labour: it is the struggle against labour. …There is nothing good about being members of the working class, … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Toma la tele: 15Mbcn tv
"In a world which really is topsy -turvy, the true is a moment of the false." Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle One of the remarkable features of 15M spain is the okupation/proliferation of media, as both a … Continue reading
Revolution is ageless: The Iaioflatas of 15M’s spain
In the Fall of 2011, from 15M Barcelona, emerged a self organised working group centered around the mobilization of retired peoples; retired from labour, but not from life and the desire to create something better out of/against the wrekage of … 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
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Tagged 15M, Carlos Taibo, greece, spain, Spanish Revolution
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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
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
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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
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Tagged 15M, Alternative Economies, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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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 →