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Tag Archives: 15M
A Madrid May: A rebellion´s music
The general assemby of 15M Madrid in Sol, celebrating the 3 years of the movement, was opened and closed by performances of the orchestra and choir La Solfónica, born in the wake of the of the first protests in the … Continue reading
A Madrid May: 15M – A school without walls
The assembly in Puerta del Sol marking the 3rd anniversary of the 15M movement begins with presentations on the current economic crisis, that falls to the responsibility of the Economics and Justice groups of Sol, a heritage of the original … Continue reading
An anniversary of lives in movement: Spain’s 15M
The upcoming 15th of May marks a commemoration, not of anniversary of a past reality, but of a present, in movement. Spain’s 15M, over three years, has multiplied, proliferated, metamorphosised; to become not larger in numbers, but in deeper in … Continue reading
Pieces of Madrid
The protest, dissidence and creativity of those who rebel in spain against State-Capital continues to weave together forms of life at the margins of/in opposition to domination. At the heart of all that 15M and parallel movements in the country … Continue reading
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Carlos Taibo: What is happening with 15M?
Carlos Taibo continues to be one of the more reflective and lucid commentators/activists in spain’s 15th of May movement. What follows is a recent and succinct analysis of the state/diffusion of the movement, published in the Madrid based 15M newspaper … Continue reading
Political dissidence made criminal: Resistance from spain
Before State interdiction and oppression, how can and should resistance and opposition proceed? If public protest risks falling into spectacular re-appropriation, should the streets then be left to the authorities of pacification? And if protest is necessary, how can it … Continue reading
Spain’s 15M: Doing revolution
The old revolutionary certainties have gone. John Holloway, Crack Capitalism What in our conduct, our action, makes it revolutionary? Is it a simple matter to say of one activity that it is anti-capitalist, and of another that it is not? … Continue reading
The pacifying state (cont.): the sovereignty of the police
The transformation of political issues into security matters makes explicit the relationship, if not the identity, of sovereignty and the exercise of police power. The “police – contrary to public opinion – are not merely an administrative function of law … Continue reading
The pacifying state: Spain and the laws against rebellion
The State’s power is fundamentally rooted in its ability to define the limits within which its sovereignty is exercised; a power that rests upon the State’s ability to simultaneously stand outside those very limits. This paradox is at the very … Continue reading
A Madrid May: resistance, escraches, occupations – the struggle for a commons
In February, 2013, a 47 year old woman walked into a bank in Almassora, Castellón, poured inflammable liquid over herself, and then set herself afire, screaming as she did so: “Look at what you have done to me! You have … Continue reading →