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Vio.Me: Self-Organization in Greece

An excellent video report from Global Uprisings and Brandon Jourdan of the Vio.Me. factory occupation in greece.  Any revolutionary movement will inevitably confront the issue of production.  In radically changing capitalist society, how can the basic needs of people be … Continue reading

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Diagnosing the city under crisis: Athens

A multimedia research collective, The City at a Time of Crisis, has inaugurated a rich project to cartograph and analyse the changing dimensions of urban life in the city of Athens, under the regime of crisis.  The endeavour is noteworthy … Continue reading

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Into the Fire

The state of exception is not a dictatorship, but a space devoid of law. Giorgio Agamben Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece, by Guy Smallman and Kate Mara, chronicles the plight of immigrants in Greece.  But … Continue reading

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From factory occupations to revolution?

The occupation of factories, of the industrial fabric of a society, is essential to any broad revolutionary movement against State-Capital.  It is however by no means sufficient.  Occupations can only be a part of a more general effort to create … Continue reading

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Chronicles from our future present: greece

In the midst of the horrors of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg, citing  Friedrich Engels’ statement that “Capitalist society faces a dilemma, either an advance to socialism or a reversion to barbarism”, posed the question, “What does a ‘reversion … Continue reading

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Updates from Greece: In Solidarity with the Occupying Workers of Industrial Mineral (Vio.Me)

  "…only through a network of self-managed factories will Vio.Me be able to survive and light the way towards a different organisation of production and the economy, with no exploitation, inequality or hierarchy"   http://biom-metal.blogspot.gr/   The struggle in Greece is … Continue reading

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Updates from Greece: Greek Proletariat Occupies — Life without Bosses

Greek worker resistance has turned a new page in combatting and overcoming the ongoing capitalist onslaught against the majority of the population everywhere. Street demonstrations and battles, occupations of public spaces and the creation of alternative centres have been joined … Continue reading

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Updates from Greece: The Resistance continues

We are happy to let you know that the Greek anti-authoritarian resistance is countering the terroristic assaults of the Greek State. From  the http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/ we repost: http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2013/01/15/lelas-karagianni-squat-has-been-re-occupied/ http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2013/01/15/police-raid-lelas-karagianni-athens-oldest-anarchist-squat-updates/

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Lines of fracture, lines of conflict, lines of freedom: The war of okupations in greece

In solidarity … From greece to spain, passing through italy, okupations increasingly mark a territory of conflict between State-Capital and those who seek to create spaces and times of autonomy inside/outside the reigning regime of power.  Beyond what they directly contest in capitalism, … Continue reading

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14N: Images, Resonances and Reflections

  The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of exception" in which we live is the rule.  We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this.  Then it will become clear that the task … Continue reading

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