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Tomás Ibáñez: “One never takes power, it is power which takes us”
On the occasion of the publication of Tomás Ibáñez’ book, Anarquismo es movimiento, we republish below, in translation, an interview with him that appeared in La Marea (29/06/2014): a reading of contemporary anarchism.
Scenes from the class war in spain: suicide
By chosing voluntary death we cast off the burden of our existence and refuse to simply survive. Jean Amery, On Suicide: A Discourse On Voluntary Death From the Stop Desahucios (Stop Evictions) of 15M Granada, comes the news of the suicide of Gustavo Arguellas Calvo … Continue reading
Scenes from the class war in spain: okupation and resistance
Social movements form around problems. We don’t mean this in a simple functionalist fashion, as if there is a pre-existent problem which then produces a social movement that, in turn, forces the state or capital to respond and solve the … Continue reading
Paths to utopia in andalusia: Marinaleda
The Left must position itself as much to the Left as possible and therefore it has the need to aspire to Utopia, understood not as a chimera, but as the right that people have to dream, and by means of … Continue reading
Critical engagements in spain’s 15th of May movement
Spain’s 15th of May movement, born in 2011, is one of the most significant political and social movements of our time. Its promise has been great. But also its weaknesses, weaknesses which those quick to condemn movements in the name … Continue reading
Taking the banks in Catalonia
Croire au monde, c’est aussi bien susciter des événements même petits qui échappent au contrôle, ou fait naitre de nouveaux espaces-temps, même de surface ou de volume réduits. … C’est au niveau de chaque tentative que se jugent la capacité … Continue reading
Rebel neighbourhoods: Carabanchel, Madrid
There are cities where particular neighbourhoods guard a memory of past disobedience and rebellion. They were in the past often referred to as working-class neighbourhoods, or quartiers populaires, to employ the French expression. They recall that past however not as … Continue reading
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Can Vies: The resonances of an okupation
…we need to abandon the view of autonomy that fantasizes uncontaminated enclaves of emancipation. Stavros Stavrides For over a week, thousands protested the eviction and partial destruction of the Can Vies Self-managed Social Centre in Barcelona, in the Centre’s neighbourhood … Continue reading
The rebellion/resistance of okupied social centres: Centre Social Autogestionat Can Vies
An okupied social centre is a form of direct action against State-Capital. It is a refusal of the sacrosanctity of private property and of the authority which oversees its protection. It is a making common that which is held privately … Continue reading
Anti-capitalist economies in post-15M spain: Mondragón, Cooperatives and Okupations
… I am bound to suppose that the realisation of Socialism will tend to make men happy. What is it then that makes people happy? Free and full life and the consciousness of life. William Morris In spain, there are … Continue reading →