Tag Archives: Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca

The insurrection of occupations

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

(photograph by Olmo Calvo) As the violence of State-Capital displays itself in spain – 6 million unemployed, cuts to public social services, 500 hundred daily home evictions, with their attendant tragedies of homelessness, destroyed families, suicides – the defense of … Continue reading →

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Rebelling against property: the PAH

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

The PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, predating the emergence of 15M in spain has been, with 15M’s neighbourhood assemblies in various cities, been one of the most emblematic protagonists in the popular efforts to resist the power of … Continue reading →

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Lessons from the violence of capital

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

Capitalism is a system which feeds off life, the life nature, of human beings; but it does so without the redemption of those sacrificed.  Life is expended, but without renewed life.  It is a system rather of waste production, the … Continue reading →

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