Tag Archives: portugal

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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The city belongs to those who occupy it: Okupying Lisbon

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Reflections after an assembly of a new okupation in Lisbon … Any new occupation is invariably accompanied by uncertainty, an uncertainty only intensified by a lack of clarity over means and goals, organisation and methods of functioning, and the physical … Continue reading →

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Voices of a revolution: Portugal, 25 of April 1974, Música de intervenção

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

A people without song are perhaps not a “people”, or at least, they are not more than temporary aggregates of consumers of music.  But consumers do not make up a people and if it is in times of intense and … Continue reading →

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On the death of a portuguese “revolutionary”: Mario Soares and the inseparability of ideology and reality

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

For every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History It is a mistake to understand ideology as something … Continue reading →

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The plunder of tourism: Lisbon

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream of being blind. Paul Virilio Mass urban tourism condemns a city to branding, a product to be consumed, a spectacle to … Continue reading →

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The rebellion of a generation in dire straights: The 12th of march movement 2011 portugal

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

The 12th of May of 2011 in portugal marked the beginning of the largest protest movement in the country since the 25th of April 1974 revolution.  What came to be known as M12M began as a call on the social … Continue reading →

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Es.Col.A da Fontinha: Recalling an okupation

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Okupation is a political act, questioning as it does the very pillars of Capital and the State: rejection of private property, the economy of commodities, the State’s prerogative to enforce and defend regimes of wealth and poverty, and the enforcement … Continue reading →

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On the Passage of a Few Thousand People Through a Brief Period of Time

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

The following is a critical description and an analysis of almost four years of political protest in portugal; critical both for its understanding of social movements and as a point of comparison with other contemporaneous movements.  Posted on  libcom.org (07/05/2014), … Continue reading →

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The lyricism of revolution: José Afonso

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno   If creation is the constitution of new spaces and times, as Gilles Deleuze once said, then the creativity of music and that of politics, if not the … Continue reading →

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25th of April: Revolutions within a revolution

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

The portuguese government and opposition parties in parliament today commemorate the forty years of the 25th of April revolution; yet they do so fearful of the very word “revolution”.  To commemorate is already to disarm, to confine the event to … Continue reading →

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