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It is necessary to create autonomous spaces: Carlos Taibo

The Ego of autonomy is not the absolute self, the monad cleaning and polishing its external-internal surface in order to eliminate the impurities resulting from contact with others.  It is the active and lucid agency that constantly reorganzes its contents, … Continue reading

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After Syntagma: Stavros Stavrides

What follows is a partial translation of a presentation made by the architect and greek activist Stavros Stavrides in CSO Patio Marvillas of Madrid, the transcription of which done by Eva García y Beatriz García of the Observatorio Metropolitano de … Continue reading

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Gezi Park/Taksim Square: The festival of revolution

Le premier geste pour que quelque chose puisse surgir au milieu de la métropole, pour que s’ouvrent d’autres possibles, c’est d’arrêter son perpetuum mobile. comité invisible, L’insurrection que vient The faces and voices of Gezi Park of Taksim Square, Istanbul, … Continue reading

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The chimera of revolution: Travels through 15M’s spain

Chimaera … breathed awful fire, Three-headed, frightening, huge, swift-footed, strong, One head a bright-eyed lion’s, one a goats, The third a snake’s, a mighty dragon-head. Hesiod, Theogony Monsters have always defined the limits of community … Donna Haraway, A Manifesto … Continue reading

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Anarchy and 15M

As 15M approaches its second anniversary, it is an occasion to reflect on its young and yet rich history, on its present, and possible future.  Far be it from us however to suggest any kind of omniscient or final judgement … Continue reading

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Revolutions of desire: The Wingnut Anarchist Collective

There is no desire for revolution, as there is no desire for power, desire to oppress or to be oppressed; but revolution, oppression, power, etc., are the actual component lines of a given assemblage. Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II David Graeber … Continue reading

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

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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Towards a real assembly-ism

From the working group of 15M-Madrid, Política a Largo Plazo, comes the following reflection on the assembly as a space for horizontally and freely creating human community, a reflection on what is here is called asamblearismo.  The translation from the … Continue reading

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A revolution freed

On March the 5th, Hugo Chavez died.  Our silence at his passing was motivated in large part by our ignorance of the complexity of the Revolución Bolivariana and of Venezuela.  Equally, we were silenced by the torrent of media attention … Continue reading

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Revolution from below: Cooperativa Integral Catalana

In continuity with an earlier post about an initiative that originated in Catalonia calling for the creation of an international network/space for the ideological and practical elaboration of autonomies beyond capitalism (integrarevolució), a return to one of the groups, members … Continue reading

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