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Love and revolution: A film by Yannis Youlountas
We share below Yannis Youlountas most recent documentary film-testimony of struggles for autonomy in greece. In letting those who are directly engaged in these struggles speak for themselves, his work offers a glimpse of what served as a title for … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, autonomy, greece, migration, rebellion, self-management, Yannis Youlountas
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In solidarity: Fraguas and the creation of community
We have recently posted a series of articles against the idea of a “revolutionary” government, against the idea of government or the State as an instrument of anti-capitalist reform or radical change. We believe that in whatever guise, the State … Continue reading
15M: From legacy to future
Spain’s 15th of May movement of 2011 marks a shift in ways of thinking and doing politics, or to borrow Amador Fernández-Savater’s expression, a shift in desire.
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Tagged 15M, autonomy, Carlos Taibo, Okupations, revolution
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The Notre-Dame-des Landes ZAD: The multiplicity of movement against the unity of the state
On the 17th of May, 19 squadrons of military police (that is, between 1,500 and 1,700 police) entered the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes for a second operation of destruction and eviction.
Creating autonomies in the ZAD: Notre-Dame-des-Landes
The significance of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD in france is reflected below in two texts, excerpts from longer essays/collections. The first is from a french publication entitled Défendre la zad, by the Collective Mauvaise Troupe (2016), and available in an english translation … Continue reading
The war against autonomy: The State attacks the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes
This April 9th, the expulsion of the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes began. If the proposed airport for the region was struck down, the french government has repeatedly announced that it will not accept the “illegal” occupation of the land by squatters. … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, france, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, State and Capital, State terror, ZAD
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On non-state power: Raúl Zibechi
Collective labor underpins the commons, and is the true material base that produces and reproduces living communities, based on relations of reciprocity and mutual help rather than the hierarchical and individualized relations at the core of state institutions. The community … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomy, Raúl Zibechi, revolution, south america
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The russian revolution of 1917: Cornelius Castoriadis
The autonomous activity of the masses belongs by definition to what is repressed in history. Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis’ saw in the Bolshevik seizure of power the beginning of the end of the russian revolution; an end marked by the administrative dispossession … Continue reading
Autonomy as societies in movement: Raúl Zibechi
Autonomy and difference go hand in hand, because autonomy implies that people have the right to govern themselves completely, “to determine their own form of government, their own sociocultural practices, and their own economic organization” (Díaz Polanco and Sánchez 2002, 45). This point … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomy, Raúl Zibechi, revolution, State and Capital
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Community against the State: Errekaleor
It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said, with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is the history of their struggle against the … Continue reading →