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Tag Archives: Land Okupations
Fraguas Communique February 2023
From El Lokal (24/02/2023) Call for solidarity to prevent the incarceration of the Fraguas 6 In 2013, the Fraguas Revive project was born in a town abandoned since 1968, expropriated (forcibly and fraudulently) by the Franco regime and destroyed with … Continue reading
Fraguas, the state against an autonomous rural collective
We return to Fraguas, spain, in solidarity with the effort to create an autonomous, rural collective in the mountains around Madrid, now confronted with the final act in a process of state persecution. The Fraguas six will go to jail … Continue reading
The Vermont Communards: Remembering Roz Payne
The death of north-american political activist, Roz Payne, takes us back not only to her life, but to an extraordinarily intense moment of radical politics in the united states. It is impossible to say what was most significant politically in … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Land Okupations, roz payne, united states, Vermont commune movement
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The state against autonomy: In defence of Fraguas
On the 23rd of February, thousands marched through Madrid in solidarity with and in defence of the Fraguas rural occupation. (Kaos en la red) Six of the accused-defendants involved in the occupation were sentenced to 1 year and 9 months … Continue reading
Creating other worlds: Defending the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Creation takes place in bottlenecks . . . A creator who isn’t grabbed around the throat by a set of impossibilities is no creator. A creator’s someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities . . . it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, Land Okupations, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Occupations, revolution, ZAD
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Creating archipelagos of autonomous communities: Rural Okupation
What is autonomy and what are autonomous communities, are not simple or innocent questions. By “autonomy” we mean both collective life that is self-governed freely and in equality, and forms of life in opposition to currently reigning kinds of economic … Continue reading
Without fear: Land occupations in spain
On the 30th of June, the state owned land estate of Somonte, occupied in 2012 by landless, agricultural day labourers of the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as (SAT), were evicted by a large police (Guardia Civil) intervention, for a fifth time. … Continue reading
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Tagged Land Okupations, Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as, Somonte
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Creating radical autonomy: Fraguas
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, Land Okupations, Occupations, revolution, self-management, spain
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Scenes from the class struggle in spain
The protagonists of class struggles are many, as are the stages upon which they are enacted and re-enacted. What defines them is not historically pre-determined; revolutionaries and reactionaries playing out the assigned roles of objective social contradictions are all fictions … Continue reading
Acapatzingo: An autonomous community in resistance
Societies change from daily local practice, in defined autonomous spaces, because autonomy is the perimeter that protects counterhegemonic practices. Autonomy is the means by which other worlds can exist, worlds that need protection by virtue of being different. When and … Continue reading →