Tag Archives: occupy the city

The Paris Commune: Antonio Negri

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

An interview with Antonio Negri by Niccolò Cuppini, as part of the Planetary Commune project. (The interview is also available in spanish and french). However much we may hesitate before Negri’s Marxism – his almost exclusive attention to Marxist theorisations … Continue reading →

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The Cop-Free Zone

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/07/2020)… The Cop-Free Zone: Reflections from Experiments in Autonomy around the US The cop-free zone is not the particular block or traffic circle or park. It is the shared commitment to defending a space and eliminating … Continue reading →

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To destroy the urban

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

  While the world of commodities is in liquidation, threatened by the implosion of all human contact and by ecological catastrophe, while young people slaughter each other and adults muddle through on psycho-pharmaceuticals, exactly what is at stake becomes clearer: … Continue reading →

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Creating autonomies in greece: Voices from the capitalist wilderness

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Theodoros Karyotis’ essay “The Right to the City in an Age of Austerity”, focusing on greek urban-political struggles in the period of 2008 and after, allows us to conceive of what a radical politics might look like beyond the indigenous-capitalist … Continue reading →

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Voices from an okupation: The assembleia de occupação de Lisboa

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Ongoing reflections on an okupation in Lisbon (continuing a discussion) … The essay below, which we share in translation, is by Tiago F. Duarte, a member of the Assembleia de occupação de Lisboa, a collective responsible for the recent occupation … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: To live the commune – Interventions by the revolutionary erotic committee

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

France’s Nuit Debout movement may be the first of the post-2011 “movements of occupation” that dissipates almost entirely due to its own democratic self-delusions.

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Remembering a Barcelona February

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Soy mi destino, mi tiempo, mi camino, mi gran amor, mi guerrera y mi poeta. Soy la caída, la bajada en picado a los infiernos, el dolor, el amor, la esperanza. Soy mi memoria, mi esencia y mi existencia. Soy … Continue reading →

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Landscapes of oppression, gestures of resistance: Istanbul

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Sunday Today is Sunday. Today they led me out into the sun for the first time. And for the first time in my life I stood immovable Amazed at how distant the sky was How vast, How blue Respectfully I … Continue reading →

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Precarity in Paradise: the Barcelona model

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

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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Gentrificação: A cidade como campo de apropriação, deslocação e segregação

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Partilhamos uma reflexão sobre a gentrificação enquanto processo de desalojamento capitalista, de um amigo de Autonomies … No dia 14 de Junho de 1989, Bruce Bailey, activista de defesa dos direitos de inquilinos na cidade de Nova York foi assassinado, … Continue reading →

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