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Tag Archives: spain
Revolution is ageless: The Iaioflatas of 15M’s spain
In the Fall of 2011, from 15M Barcelona, emerged a self organised working group centered around the mobilization of retired peoples; retired from labour, but not from life and the desire to create something better out of/against the wrekage of … Continue reading
Pacifying the Rebellious: The War Against the Coal Miners
With their jobs condemned to disappear, their communities to be destroyed, the coal miners' of spain struggle against the logic of capital. The manner in which they become disposable is a fate that can touch all of us. Their fight … Continue reading
Agrarian Revolution in Andalucia
And it will again be by the working in common of the soil that the enfranchised societies will find their unity and will obliterate the hatred and oppression which has hitherto divided them. Peter Kropotkin On the 4th of … Continue reading
La Marcha Negra de los mineros en España
On the 22 of June, coal miners from the Asturias, Castilla and León, and Aragón set off on a march on Madrid, in protest against the closing of the mines. Video and text about the strike and the march … Continue reading
Reform or Revolution in 15M’s spain
… when a company, corporation or state is not considered a legitimate partner for negotiation, then it makes no sense to appeal to that authority for a negotiated settlement. Judith Butler, Tidal 2 The old question of reform or … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Carlos Taibo, greece, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Banks are bailed out and Families are evicted: Okupations under 15M’s spain
15M, almost since its beginning, has joined other social movements to prevent the eviction of families from houses that they can no longer aford, as a consequence of unemployment. It is a politics of okupation, which in itself, or … Continue reading
Between Protest and Creation: 15M’s spain
How do we stop making capitalism? How do we free our doing from the labour by which we create and re-create a world that is killing us? John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power The Long … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, greece, labour, LGBT, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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News from nowhere: 15M’s spain
Merely negative action inevitably engages with capital on capital’s own terms, and on capital’s terms we shall always lose, even when we win. …The problem of struggle is to move onto a different dimension from capital, not to engage with … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Alternative Economies, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Universidad Nómada on 15M
One of the most important contributions to the reflection on 15M, to date, is a collection of essays entitled Democracia Distribuida organized by the Universidad Nómada. Ideally, the endeavour should be made to translate the texts to english, but time … Continue reading
Gleaning or the bloody joys of capitalism
Capitalism is a system that exists in and through excess, the excess of production, profits, consumption and their corollary, waste, the waste of nature's wealth, the waste of human creativity and the waste of consumption. How do we stop making … Continue reading →