EXARCHIA: Solidarity to squats and all spaces of struggle- ASSEMBLY Announcement
Submitted by Mumakil on Aug 30 2019 19:20
The state and capital always attack the freedom of the social base, steal its labor and resources. In recent years we have experienced one of the most violent attacks through the massive impoverishment of people who are already oppressed and exploited.
On the other hand, there has been widespread social resistance and solidarity. People have created a variety of self-organized spaces such as housing infrastructure, social medical centers, community kitchens, open parks and public spaces which are just some of the main examples.
Greek State Begins Evictions of Anarchist and Refugee Squats in Exarcheia
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 27 2019 18:36
The first major repressive attack against Exarcheia by the far-right wing New Democracy Party began on the morning of August 26, as police arrested 143 people from four different anarchist and refugee squats.
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.
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