Erisian Mysteries: The art of squatting, resistance and solidarity in Exarcheia, Athens
An anthropological essay by Katelyn Squires on the anarchist activity in Exarcheia, Athens.
Fire and Ice: Space Wars in Zurich
Midnight Notes interview with a member of the Zurich anti-work movement.
Self-help housing in South America
WILLIAM MANGIN’s fascinating case-history of the human problems encountered in migration to the city and locating and housing a family in a “barriada” or squatters’ settlement, is reproduced by kind permission of Architectural Design.
Abolish rent: for a communist tenants’ movement
This pamphlet poses a set of provocations to the contemporary tenants’ movement. The provocations are "Some Communist Theses for the Tenants' Movement" and "Abolish Rent, a note." As the pamphlet title declares, the provocation focuses on the proposition that “abolish rent” should be the slogan upon which militants promote a distinction in the movement between anarchists/communists and social democrats, toward the end of building a revolutionary tenants’ movement. (Not here, but to-be included in a future iteration, is an in-progress "Annotated Bibliography of Rent Abolitionist Tactics")
Cotters and squatters: housing's hidden history
Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 19 2017 10:36
Colin Ward's Cotters and Squatters explores the story of squatter settlement in England and Wales: from our cave-dwelling recent ancestors to the Diggers and on the industrial revolution; and from twentieth-century mass squatting to modern claims that The Land is Ours.
Police brutality leads to pro-migrant march in Rome
Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Aug 28 2017 22:31
After a refugee eviction in Rome ended with shocking scenes of police violence, migrants and their supporters took to the streets.
Police brutality during double eviction in Bologna
Submitted by Ed on Aug 9 2017 15:30
Police injured more than a dozen people, two seriously, on a day where two social centres were violently evicted in Bologna.
Squatting in London: Precarity and Emergency Crisis Planning
Submitted by Anghamard17 on Jul 26 2017 16:27
Due to sustained attacks from the state, councils, and property owners, squatters in England have developed a capacity for emergency crisis planning whilst neglecting long term organising. This article examines why and briefly looks at attempts to reverse this trend.
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.
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