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Operation Pandora: Spanish anarchists organise the resistance

In solidarity with all of the imprisoned anarchists of spain … We share below a partial translation of a report that appeared in Periodico Diagonal (30/10/2015) and originally published in the Catalan newspaper La Directa (29/10/2015) of a press conference held on Thursday … Continue reading

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Operation Pandora continues: The repression of anarchism in spain

On the morning of the 28th of October, starting at 5am, there were raids in two houses in Manresa and two people were arrested on the orders of the Audiencia Nacional, acting against anarchist struggles. Units of the mobile brigade … Continue reading

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Anarchist Federation Forming In Greece … Echoes From Another Time Across The Ocean

We are reprinting the English translation of the text announcing and providing a background to the creation of a federation of anarchist groups in Greece. The comments that follow are my own brief personal reflections on this in the context … Continue reading

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A war against autonomy: Turkey

“Yesterday Kobane, today Cizre” could be read among the slogans carried in a solidarity protest with the kurdish cause in Paris last Thursday, September 10.  As in other european cities, the protest was called to denounce the the ongoing military … Continue reading

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Rethinking Anarchism: Carlos Taibo (6)

What follows below is the 6th Chapter of Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013).  Largely concerned with the history of spanish anarchism, Taibo also considers, in this chapter, the complex relationship between anarchism and marxism, … Continue reading

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Hobbesian reflections in times of elections: Giorgio Agamben

The recent electoral successes of political parties rooted in “citizens movements” in spain’s municipal and regional elections (and this in the wake of the Syriza victory in greece) may give some reasons for hope that social movements, especially the “occupy” … Continue reading

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Precarity in Paradise: the Barcelona model

We share below an essay by Peter Gelderloos on the capitalist city and anticapitalist resistance in Barcelona that originally appeared in Roarmag (28/06/2015) …

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From Apoyo Mutuo: Towards popular power

In solidarity with Apoyo Mutuo, the Madrid based initiative to “organise” anarchist and libertarian actions across different collectives, groups and sensibilities (one of many that today mark the country’s political landscape – e.g. Procés Embat in catalonia, more recently, Aunar … Continue reading

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Antifenix: A call for solidarity

With czech anarchists arrested during “operation fenix”, we share the following message, in solidarity …

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The poetic anarchy of Jesús Lizano

Quien duerme, quien duerme, quien duerme, despierte. Lope de Vega  Soy anarquista poetico: mi mundo no es de este reino. Jesús Lizano Q. – Is the Real Poetic World distant? R. – The Real Poetic World is here, in what is natural, … Continue reading

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