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The squat of Evagelismos (an old abandoned hospital in the centre of Heraklion, Crete) was established in 2002 by around 80 students who wanted to found a cultural space. In that group there were also some anarchists who took over maintenance and organization of the space after the most of the students left the initiative. Since then, the squat has functioned as a place where immigrants and homeless people were hosted and afterwards more politically active people started to live in it. Besides providing housing, it continues to be the centre of anti-authoritarian anarchist struggle in Heraklion. The building hosts the majority of the collective processes of the anarchists here, such as assemblies, events, a bar every Friday (the money from which goes both towards the running costs of the building and the struggle, e.g. supporting political prisoners, funding a self-run newspaper),it has a gym and hosts workshops on many different issues.

This is point zero of a new project.

There may have existed other projects that have ventured on a similar path. But we often felt confronted with fragmented information and “news”. In short, they left us hungry, without giving us enough material to refine methods, explore ideas, develop perspectives or sharpen affinities.

This week William talks with Paul Z. Simons, a contributor to and editor of the journal Modern Slavery; A Libertarian Critique of Civilization available at http://modernslavery.calpress.org. Mr. Simons is also an essayist and former contributor/editor of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed and Out of Anarchy among other projects. Modern Slavery delves into the conception of a modern slavery through an explicitly radical discussion of the history and present condition of wage economies and wage slavery. In addition, the journal showcases poetry, short stories, book reviews, and art. If you wish to become a contributor, you can do so through the journals website.

la semilla negra

A new project reporting on: "social war, &c."

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A NEW COMMODITY: INTIMACY

from Cuadernos de Negacion

Excerpts from Consequences of a misuse of electricity. On the experimental phase of capitalism of the spirit, José Manuel Rojo. Published in Salamandra 11-12 (Grupo Surrealista de Madrid)

Some aspects of the dominant economic system we are all a part of – are all subjected to – are so ubiquitous and naturalised that they exist largely unquestioned, even by those that make the interrogation of power their duty. To ask the kind of questions that might genuinely threaten the entrenched corporate and private banking structures blighting our existences, our understanding must go beyond the puppet theatre of media driven politics, into the real terrain of capital: finance, markets and money.

We would propose that Steve Schewel is not worried about the violence of his police force, whose members he seems to regard as big blue angels, but rather the possibility of a visible, popular, and confrontational opposition to that violence. How else can one interpret his statement that police violence must be 'proportional to the situation'? Steve Schewel does not desire a Durham without police violence; he wants a Durham where that violence is institutionalized and managed in such a way as to be omnipresent but entirely invisible. The function of that violence, in turn, is to invisibly preserve in a hundred ways the world many of us already inhabit: poverty, addiction, racism, sexism, alienation, and despair.”

From Tovima

The FAI/IRF militant group has sent zougla.gr an envelope containing a USB drive and a 500ml Coca Cola bottle. Included on the USB stick is a six-page declaration of their "Green Nemesis" operation and a video.

From Reddit Anarchism

It's been 8 months since our last survey and a few people requested a new one, so I threw this together.