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Taking Rome: Okupation as Revolution

This last 6th of December, eight new occupations of buildings and houses took place in Rome.  This was not a spontaneous, momentary explosion, but a premeditated collective step that allowed some 2000 families to be sheltered.  That many have been … Continue reading

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The ZAD is Everywhere: The Autonomies of Protest in Notre-Dame-des-Landes

“On veut inventer un nouveau mode de vie … On s’oppose au projet d’aéroport et au monde qui va avec, au système qui le porte …  C’est un projet emblématique d’une logique d’aménagement du territoire autoritaire, qui contrôle les vies et détruit les … Continue reading

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Strikes against Capitalism

ParkeHarrison Flying Lesson (2000) The State is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another.  It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. Gustav Landauer The struggle … Continue reading

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Figures of Bartleby’s Rebellion

Once upon a time, three friends beneath the soft shade of grape vines shared their Bartleby … for them.

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Consumption

It was once remarked (by Guy Debord) that a society whose members are fully born within the spectacle will not have any other reference point than the spectacle itself making the prospects of a revolution unlikely. We would like to … Continue reading

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From Roarmag: “Utopia on the Horzon”

ROAR presents ‘Utopia on the Horizon’, a documentary on the Greek debt crisis and anti-austerity movement, dedicated to those who chose to struggle.

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And the strike was general, and the strike knew no borders …

 

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Creating Autonomies

15M Soria has collected a large number of efforts/projects of what it calls Citizens initiatives: What we carry of the future.  These are examples of “collective, self-managed practices that work towards the urban empowerment of the citizenry and which develop … Continue reading

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The insurrection of citizens or of freedom?

On the 27th of October, the spanish congress was again a stage for protest, another encerclement, with the aim of protesting, contesting, but also openning the door to a new constituent process of political/institutional creation.  How many such acts will … Continue reading

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Exploding the binomial to enjoy alternatives: The revolution as trans

In fact we are all, deep down, transsexuals, we have all been transsexual infants, and we have been forced to identify with a specific monosexual role, masculine or feminine.                       … Continue reading

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