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Nuit Debout: What next and how?

We need to keep open not only our ways of thinking, but also the related methods of organising, the tactics, techniques and technologies we use – it’s a constant battle to ward off institutionalisation.  That sense of openness and movement … Continue reading

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Nuit Debout: Creation unleashed

Thousands of persons gather in the Place de la République in Paris, and in all of France, since the 31st of March.  Assemblies are formed where people discuss and exchange.  Each appropriates speech and public space. Neither heard nor represented, … Continue reading

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Nuit Debout: Other voices

The Nuit Debout movement in france takes on no single form, even behind the ritual of the general assemblies in Paris and now other cities.  It is plural, chaotic, fed by the multiple protests against the country’s new proposed labour … Continue reading

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Nuit Debout: Resonances of rebellion

“This must be a perfect mini-society,” a member of the gardening committee told the crowd. A poetry committee has been set up to document and create the movement’s slogans. “Every movement needs its artistic and literary element,” said the poet … Continue reading

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La Esperanza commune, Gran Canaria: Revolution through okupation

Whether in time of revolution or in time of peace, the worker must be housed somehow or other; he must have some sort of roof over his head. But, however tumble-down and squalid your dwelling may be, there is always … Continue reading

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The anarchist critique of democracy (1): CrimethInc.

The anarchist collective CrimethInc. initiated this month a critical analysis and discussion of “democracy”, promising a series of reflections, the first of which we help to diffuse below.  Preceding it is the introduction to the series …

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Occupy, Resist, Produce: The rebellious factory okupations-cooperatives of europe

What is it to speak of alternative economies to capitalism?  Wherein lies the alterity of initiatives that seek to produce beyond profit, to produce for the satisfaction of human needs?  What is an anti/post capitalist production?

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The revolutionary strike: Vitoria, spain, 1976

The wave of strikes that swept through Vitoria, spain, in 1976, culminating in a city wide general strike on March the 3rd, were a revolutionary moment that sought to break with the controlled transition, after the dictator Francisco Franco’s death, … Continue reading

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For woman’s day … the revolution of everyday

From spain, we share a statement from the spanish anarchist collective Apoyo Mutuo on the occasion of this year’s international women’s day, in solidarity with all of those who struggle against patriarchy, sexism, misogyny, heteronormativity and all of the violence … Continue reading

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Love and revolution

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an … Continue reading

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