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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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A call to revolution

From Catalunia comes a call to create an international network/space for the ideological and practical elaboration of autonomies beyond capitalism (integrarevolució).  Originating among people involved with Radi: Revolució, Acció, Desobediència, Integral and the Cooperativa Integral Catalana, as well as Derecho … Continue reading

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Reflections amid violence

(Photograph by Francesca Oggiano, from the series The Stolen Eyes) in memory of Walter Benjamin for n.m.   A historical materialist approaches a historical subject only where he encounters it as a monad.  In this structure he recognizes the sign … Continue reading

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Žižek dreaming, or Žižek, the dialectical trickster

“…one should learn the art of recognizing, from an engaged subjective position, elements which are here, in our space, but whose time is the emancipated future …” Slavoj Žižek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Reflecting on the year 2011, a year … Continue reading

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Chronicles from our future present: greece

In the midst of the horrors of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg, citing  Friedrich Engels’ statement that “Capitalist society faces a dilemma, either an advance to socialism or a reversion to barbarism”, posed the question, “What does a ‘reversion … Continue reading

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Updates from Greece: The Resistance continues

We are happy to let you know that the Greek anti-authoritarian resistance is countering the terroristic assaults of the Greek State. From  the http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/ we repost: http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2013/01/15/lelas-karagianni-squat-has-been-re-occupied/ http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2013/01/15/police-raid-lelas-karagianni-athens-oldest-anarchist-squat-updates/

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Lines of fracture, lines of conflict, lines of freedom: The war of okupations in greece

In solidarity … From greece to spain, passing through italy, okupations increasingly mark a territory of conflict between State-Capital and those who seek to create spaces and times of autonomy inside/outside the reigning regime of power.  Beyond what they directly contest in capitalism, … Continue reading

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