Tag Archives: Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca

Recuperation as eviction, resistance as occupation

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

“Spain shows again that it has regained the confidence of the markets.” (Le Monde 04/05/2014)  The interest rate on the spanish debt, at ten years, has dropped below 3%, Madrid’s stock market registers an increase in value of 25.58% over … Continue reading →

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Occupy everthing!

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

To the question “What is property?”, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously answered, “It is theft”.  That it could be taken for a right was already a conceptual confusion, for unlike liberty, equality, integrity of person, the “right” to property was not unqualified.  … Continue reading →

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Tales from the everyday of capitalism: Lavapiés, Madrid

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

At 7:20 in the morning, on the 31st if January, the riot police of the munincipal authorities of Madrid closed off the street, calle Tribulete in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés, to execute the eviction of Antonio Argobia, a 54 year … Continue reading →

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Revolution as Destituent Power

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Only if we’re able to disentangle the future … from the traps of growth and investment, will we find an escape from the vicious subjugation of life, wealth, and pleasure to the financial abstraction of semio-capital. … the future is … Continue reading →

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A Madrid October: The struggle against eviction – Resistance and occupation

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

After days of gathering to resist the announced eviction of an apartment block in Girona, the Salt block, owned by the SAREB, spain's bad bank, and occupied by the PAH on the 22 of March of this year, in the … Continue reading →

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The struggle for a commons: Chronicles from spain

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Civil war is the free play between forms-of-life; it is their principle of co-existence. “War” because in each singular play between forms- of-life, the possibility of a fierce confrontation — the possibility of violence — can never be discounted.  “Civil,” … Continue reading →

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Rebelling against debt: examples from spain

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

… discourses of crises become a way to governmentally produce and manage (rather than deter) the crisis.  “Crisis” becomes a perennial state of exception that turns into a rule and common sense and thus renders critical thinking and acting redundant, … Continue reading →

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Ofelia Nieto 29: The ethics of resistance

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

… what we are waiting for can only come from ourselves, from our own being.  It will come once we force the unknown, the unconscious, up into our spirit; it will come once our spirit loses itself in the spiritless … Continue reading →

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The spreading of okupations: Chronicles from 15m´s spain

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

To okupy, to appropriate, to re-appropriate that which was claimed by theft; a theft paid for with public monies.  Today, in spain, okupation has become the central strategy of anti-capitalist politics, a politics that is not only opposed to State-Capital, … Continue reading →

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Lines of tension, lines of flight: the revolution of occupations

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of revolution …, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible … Everything is played in uncertain games, ‘front to front, back to back, back … Continue reading →

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