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Amador Fernández-Savater: “The weak are wrong if they use the force and methods of the strong”
Amador Fernández-Savater has written the book La fuerza de los débiles with the desire to understand what happened to 15M and after 15M and to thereby analyze the current world, to continue looking for ways to understand politics. For this, … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Amador Fernández-Savater, Podemos, revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Ruymán Rodríguez and the Federación Anarquista de Gran Canaria: An Interview
An interview for the spanish newspaper, El Salto diario (05/10/2021) … The Canarian anarchist activist Ruymán Rodríguez visits the Valencian Community, invited by the Mostra del Llibre Anarquista d’Alacant, to share the work carried out by the Sindicato de Inquilinas … Continue reading
Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
(Originally published in two parts by Freedom News (23/11/2020; 30/11/2020), we share an article by Danny Evans) I was approached by Jeff Stein to write up a summary of Abel Paz, La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española so that English-language … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, spain
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Remembering Spain: Fascism, Revolution and Colonialism
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, morroco, spain, State terror, the spanish revolution
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For Samuel Luiz; with all LGBTQI people
In the early hours of the 3rd of July, 24 year old Samuel Luiz was beaten to death outside a nightclub by a dozen people in La Coruña, Galicia. The motivation would appear to be that he was gay. (The … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, LGBTQ+, patriarchy, spain
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Amador Fernández-Savater: 15M in the spanish labyrinth
A reflection on spain’s 15M, a reflection whose resonances extend beyond the limits of that country. (Lobo suelto! – 14/05/2021) I see no point in remembering 15M if it is not to try to prolong its energy, its power of … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Amador Fernández-Savater, anti-capitalism, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Spain’s 15M: The passion of rebellion
We are all dead, and we spoiled the world before we died. There is nothing left. Nothing but dreams. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven Spain’s 15M was a dream, it was the feeling that the world could be … Continue reading
The 10th anniversary of 15M
What is the strength of the weak? … the strength of the weak passes through the activation of bodies and the interweaving of ties, through the autonomous choice about times and spaces, for the value of equality and plurality. It … Continue reading
In solidarity with Ruymán Rodríguez
Ruymán Rodríguez of the Federación Anarquista Gran Canaria faces a fine and imprisonment for the trumped up charge of aggression against police when arrested, held and violently interrogated illegally. Ruymán Rodríguez’s crime is to be an anarchist, an anarchist whose … Continue reading
Solidarity with Gabriel Pombo da Silva and all anarchist prisoners
‘There is nothing to reform’ (words from Gabriel Pombo da Silvia via culmine, translated by war on society and published with the Anarchist Library): I am not so naive as to believe that what I am living here is something exceptional… and since “the … Continue reading →