Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s: Feminism, Housing and Urban Change in Hackney
Submitted by Jacques Roux on Jul 20 2017 15:41
A detailed look at squatting in 1970s Hackney, East London. Using oral history to recall how women squatting in the 1970s carved out a space for themselves to self organise in a decaying London, neglected by municipal structures. The article argues that by creating a physical space for themselves women in Hackney were able to shape and create the kind of feminist movement they wanted, which in turn helped them to create better places to live in.
The hidden history of housing
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 24 2017 11:08
A grassroots history of housing, by Colin Ward.
Greece: anarchist refugee squats prepare for State onslaught
Submitted by Rob Ray on Jun 23 2017 12:09
A new spate of recent evictions and interventions by the Greek State against refugee solidarity occupations run by the anarchist movement in Athens has prompted callouts for a major emergency gathering today.
SLAP! - Squatters of London Action Paper
SLAP! (Squatters of London Action Paper) is a monthly DIY newspaper for squatters in London. It is available in print and online as a PDF. The paper combines news, pictures, analysis and humour and aims to strengthen connections between squatters in London in order to encourage direct actions and other forms of anarchist organising.
Activists squat £100m development after eviction of homeless protest camp
Submitted by Rob Ray on Apr 23 2017 13:00
A homeless camp set up in Brighton on April 5th to protest against a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) which has been imposed on the city’s parks and seafront was evicted on Wednesday — and activists have responded by taking over a building linked to a £100m development project.
1996-7: Philadelphians campaign against welfare cuts
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 26 2017 19:38
In 1996 state and federal welfare reforms threatened to leave hundreds of thousands of poor and unemployed under threat. A coalition of Philadelphian activists and homeless attempted to fight both state and federal welfare reform programs.
Japan: a history of the workers' struggles in Kamagasaki
Submitted by Craftwork on Jan 21 2017 14:13
The article below was sent to the ICC by a comrade in Japan: it describes the emergence and decline of the squatters' and day-workers' movements which have marked the life of several Japanese cities - more particularly Osaka in this case - since the collapse of the Japanese economic "bubble" at the beginning of the 1990s, to the present day.
Resistance Issue 161, Autumn 2016
Autumn 2016 edition of the Anarchist Federation's publication Resistance.
Dis/placing political illiteracy: the politics of intellectual equality in a South African shack-dwellers’ movement
The production and abandonment of surplus people also depends on rendering them as improper political subjects. In the prevailing political discourse, poor people’s struggles are deemed less than political through notions such as the idea that all protest is related to the pace of “service delivery” or accusations of violence, as well as often explicit characterizations of dissenting people as ignorant. Such discursive moves imply and reinforce a conception of the poor black majority as unable to think and practice their own politics; that is, as politically illiterate group of people.
