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Universidad Nómada on 15M

One of the most important contributions to the reflection on 15M, to date, is a collection of essays entitled Democracia Distribuida organized by the Universidad Nómada.  Ideally, the endeavour should be made to translate the texts to english, but time … Continue reading

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All is possible: strike, protest, occupy

The Austurian coal miners’ strike, called at the end of May by the principal unions representing the workers (CC.OO and UGT), indefinitely, to contest a brutal reduction in state support for the sector (over 60%), continues with what can only … Continue reading

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Stories from 15M’s spain

The 100,000 million Euro bailout from the EU for spain’s failing bank system is a desperate attempt to put an end to the ongoing consequences of a brutal devaluation of capital (in this instance, all manner of real estate) and … Continue reading

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15M, Occupy, Quebec Student Movement in Print

  …we need all exuberant, floating, dancing, mocking, childish, and blissful art lest we lose our freedom above things that our ideal demands of us…. We should be able also to stand above morality — and not only to stand … Continue reading

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Touching Utopias: Reflections on Revolution in the Form of a Dreaming Wanderer’s Unfinished Spanish Travel Diary

…the final regime imagined by socialists cannot be fixed at a determined date by a sociological prediction; it is in the present.  It is not outside us; it is in our own hearts.  Socialism is being realized every day, under … Continue reading

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15M: Okupations and Situations

    One road is open, more open than ever, to help bring about revolution and the collapse of the present system: to begin on a small scale, and voluntarily, immediately, on all sides, you are called, you and your … Continue reading

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From a cartography of 15M to cartographies of resistance/insurrection

As the first anniversary of 15M in spain passes, it is time to also change perspectives on the stories of resistance and rebellion that mark our times.  Autonomies began before the wave of insurrection that seems to have characterised 2011, … Continue reading

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15M: A Cartography of the Spanish Revolution 97

The police in Madrid now open fire to apprehend a street vender, and then beat those who witness the event …

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15M: A Cartography of the Spanish Revolution 96

Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore … Continue reading

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15M: A Cartography of the Spanish Revolution 95

15M has been described as a laboratory in which the impossible is invented, an initiator of new way of thinking and acting politically, a new type or modality of rebellion or revolution, something in the air or underground which feeds, … Continue reading

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