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Tag Archives: Okupations
The fear of contagion: Okupation and the quashing of dissent
News of an okupation echoes loudly in portugal, for the event is today rare and the okupy movement is comparatively modest and weak (in comparison to the neighbour spain, for instance). Legislation in the country makes eviction relatively easy and … Continue reading
Voices from an okupation: The assembleia de occupação de Lisboa
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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Tagged city, gentrification, occupy the city, Okupations, portugal
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The city belongs to those who occupy it: Okupying Lisbon
Reflections after an assembly of a new okupation in Lisbon … Any new occupation is invariably accompanied by uncertainty, an uncertainty only intensified by a lack of clarity over means and goals, organisation and methods of functioning, and the physical … Continue reading
The struggle with migrants is a struggle against State-Capital
As a complement to our most recent post, a call for support from the Steki Social Centre in Thessaloniki, we publish an interview with Tasos Sagris from Void Network, for the radio program This Is Hell (u.s.a.), along with a video from sub.Media’s Trouble series entitled Refugees Welcome:Creating Solidarity … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, greece, migration, Okupations, revolution
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In solidarity: A call for support from the Steki Social Centre, Thessaloniki
In the wake of the spread of the “syrian refugee crisis” into europe in 2015, anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist and anarchist groups in greece have created networks of mutual aid, of various kinds, in support of the migrants. Refusing any State or … Continue reading
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: For an okupied social centre
The class struggle cuts not just through the spaces of salaried labour; it divides agencies across all of the different spheres of social reproduction. Without the latter, the former would cease to exists. We have tried over the years to … Continue reading
Creating radical autonomy: Errekaleor Bizirik!
To construct anti-capitalist forms of life at the margins, or in the weaves, of the system, is a delicate and precarious task with no possible guarantee of success. Over the years, we have tried to share as many examples and … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, autonomy, Occupations, Okupations, spain
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For May Day: C.S.O.A. Forte Prenestino in Rome
From a friend of Autonomies … To celebrate the first of May inside a fort, a real historical fort with all the massive walls, heavy, imposing. To remember that there was once an attempt, here, on this piece of land, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, italy, Occupations, Okupations, revolution
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Revolution is everywhere: House occupations in Rome
The understanding that capitalism is more than a form of economic organisation-exploitation, that the exploitation of labour presupposes the creation and reproduction of the conditions of that exploitation, and that today the production of those conditions is itself a source … Continue reading
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Tagged Coordinamento Cittadino di Lotta per la Casa, italy, Occupations, Okupations, revolution
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15M: From legacy to future
Spain’s 15th of May movement of 2011 marks a shift in ways of thinking and doing politics, or to borrow Amador Fernández-Savater’s expression, a shift in desire.