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I struggle therefore I am: Yannis Youlountas
In cinematographic chronicles, Yannis Youlantis tells stories of resistance and struggle in greece and spain. The virtue and beauty of his films is the beauty of those who create autonomy against those who reduce the many to slavery. Whether it be in … Continue reading
When puppets rebel: Spain’s “war on terror”
What characterises our generalised state of exception is that the law is without content. No specific crimes are circumscribed. Crime is identified with suspicion, with potential violations of norms, with “abnormality” or dissidence. To not bend to the ruling order … Continue reading
Remembering a Barcelona February
Soy mi destino, mi tiempo, mi camino, mi gran amor, mi guerrera y mi poeta. Soy la caída, la bajada en picado a los infiernos, el dolor, el amor, la esperanza. Soy mi memoria, mi esencia y mi existencia. Soy … Continue reading
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Against democracy: An anarchist criticism
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute … . In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries … Continue reading
From Apoyo Mutuo: An anarchist political program
Over the course of the last year or two, numerous initiatives have emerged in spain (and more recently in greece) to organise and federate anarchist groups into larger, more embracing and therefore, it is assumed, more effective political agents. Among … Continue reading
Operation Pandora: Spanish anarchists organise the resistance
In solidarity with all of the imprisoned anarchists of spain … We share below a partial translation of a report that appeared in Periodico Diagonal (30/10/2015) and originally published in the Catalan newspaper La Directa (29/10/2015) of a press conference held on Thursday … Continue reading
Operation Pandora continues: The repression of anarchism in spain
On the morning of the 28th of October, starting at 5am, there were raids in two houses in Manresa and two people were arrested on the orders of the Audiencia Nacional, acting against anarchist struggles. Units of the mobile brigade … Continue reading
The illusions of yet another “new” left: Syriza and Podemos
With national elections forthcoming in spain, and the recent election of Jeremy Corbyn to the head of the Labour Party in britain, enthusiasm for “leftwing governments” survives, even with the debacle of Syriza in greece. In one more effort at … Continue reading
Shards of time amid spaces of rebellion
This essay is the child of an earlier reflection on time and revolution, as well as of work on the 15th of May movement in spain, Pasolini and anti-fascism, and other essays posted on Autonomies, from which it borrows generously. … Continue reading
The revolutionary strike: Vitoria, spain, 1976
The wave of strikes that swept through Vitoria, spain, in 1976, culminating in a city wide general strike on March the 3rd, were a revolutionary moment that sought to break with the controlled transition, after the dictator Francisco Franco’s death, … Continue reading →