Tag Archives: occupy the city

Creating autonomies in greece: Voices from the capitalist wilderness

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Theodoros Karyotis’ essay “The Right to the City in an Age of Austerity”, focusing on greek urban-political struggles in the period of 2008 and after, allows us to conceive of what a radical politics might look like beyond the indigenous-capitalist … Continue reading →

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Voices from an okupation: The assembleia de occupação de Lisboa

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Ongoing reflections on an okupation in Lisbon (continuing a discussion) … The essay below, which we share in translation, is by Tiago F. Duarte, a member of the Assembleia de occupação de Lisboa, a collective responsible for the recent occupation … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: To live the commune – Interventions by the revolutionary erotic committee

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

France’s Nuit Debout movement may be the first of the post-2011 “movements of occupation” that dissipates almost entirely due to its own democratic self-delusions.

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Remembering a Barcelona February

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

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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Landscapes of oppression, gestures of resistance: Istanbul

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Sunday Today is Sunday. Today they led me out into the sun for the first time. And for the first time in my life I stood immovable Amazed at how distant the sky was How vast, How blue Respectfully I … Continue reading →

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Precarity in Paradise: the Barcelona model

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We share below an essay by Peter Gelderloos on the capitalist city and anticapitalist resistance in Barcelona that originally appeared in Roarmag (28/06/2015) …

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Gentrificação: A cidade como campo de apropriação, deslocação e segregação

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Partilhamos uma reflexão sobre a gentrificação enquanto processo de desalojamento capitalista, de um amigo de Autonomies … No dia 14 de Junho de 1989, Bruce Bailey, activista de defesa dos direitos de inquilinos na cidade de Nova York foi assassinado, … Continue reading →

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Gentrification: The city as a field of appropriation, dislocation and segregation

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection on gentrification as capitalist dispossession, from a friend of Autonomies … On the 14 the of June of 1989, Bruce Bailey, tenants activist in New York city, was murdered, his dismembered body abandoned in a … Continue reading →

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Istanbul: Urban renewal as primitive accumulation

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

(Yuksel Arslan) Capitalism’s need for wealth extraction in an increasingly urbanised human space can only force it to turn upon itself, to consume itself, in gestures of commodity autophagia.  But if cannibalism could once serve as a mode of sacrificial … Continue reading →

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The dispossession of urban commons: Istanbul

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Don’t say it’s the necessary result of historical, social, and economic conditions – I know!  My head bows before the thing you mention.  But my heart doesn’t speak that language. Nazim Hikmet, The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin … the question … Continue reading →

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