squatting
A brief exchange with a Brazilian oil rig worker, 2007
This is a short documentation of an informal letter exchange. A friend from Brazil tidies up his electronic inbox having some spare time on the oil-rig. He comes across a one and a half year old mail from Berlin, posted on a PGA mailing list. It is call for solidarity with Honda workers who have been beaten up by the police in a suburb of Delhi during summer 2005. Some letters go back and forth. Here is a summary...
The other day in Cyberspace
Brazilian oil worker bumps into Berlin activist engaged in Indian car workers' solidarity
A Short History of Shacks & Shack Dweller's Struggles in Durban
A short overview of the history of shacks and shack dwellers struggles in Durban with a focus on enclosure, insurgent commoning, and the politics of space.
Commons, Enclosure and Popular Insurgency in Durban, South Africa
by Richard Pithouse
[I]f their cause be so good, why will they not suffer us to speak and let reason and equity, the foundation of righteous laws, judge them and us?
- Gerrard Winstanley
The Founding of Durban
Help the economy: sleep on the streets - The Red Menace
The Red Menace reviews No Reservations: Housing, Space and Class Struggle.
"More and more the city is a monolithic temple to the power of money over us, as the pyramids were to the power of the pharoahs over the slaves- and like the servants of the pharoahs, we are buried alive inside it."
Double fascist attack against squats in Salonica in midst of continuing tension
Fascists attack two Salonica squats while struggle against anti-immigration policies intensifies.
During the past week both Radio Revolt, a pirate anarchist radio station housed in an abandoned train wagon within premises of the Aristotelian University of Salonica, and Europe’s largest squat, Fabrica Yfanet, came under fascist arson attack.
Fascists attack squat in Athens with Minister of Public Order supervision
Nazis organised by the police in vigilante groups in Agios Panteleimonas attacked one of the oldest anarchist squats, Villa Amalias, 20 minutes after meeting with the Minister of Public Order.
On Thursday 9/7 the second mass protest march in a week took to the streets of Athens against State sponsored racism and police collaboration with fascist groups in the area of Agios Panteleimonas. The march which was organised by the left and numbered 5,000 protesters took to the Parliament.
121: A brief personal trip down memory lane - Paul Petard
Paul Petard reflects on a squatted social centre, now evicted, that he used to frequent.
(Oh no I've got to walk down Railton Road again.)
121Railton Road: South London's world famous radical squatted house/anarchist bookshop/autonomous social centre/free community space survived for a record breaking 18 years before being evicted. Some people claim the place was haunted, by the ghost of euro punk perhaps.
Om Sweet Om
The free festivals on rural squatted land in the 1970's were largely an extension of the London mass squatting movement of that time. The initial participants being mainly rural hippies and London squatters, these events were an extension of a lifestyle organised around resistance to work and living outside the confines of the isolated family structure.
An article from "No Reservations - Housing, Space and Class Struggle", News From Everywhere and Campaign For Real Life, London, 1989.
- A cautionary tale of Stonedhenge, Convoys, Mutoids etc.
- A cautionary tale of Stonedhenge, Convoys, Mutoids etc.
Massive protest marches in Athens and Salonica in solidarity to squats
Athens and Salonica streets flooded by mass protest marches in solidarity to squats threatened by anti-anarchist measures
On Tuesday 29/04 protesters flooded the streets of Athens and Salonica, in coordinated mass protest marches in solidarity to squats and occupied public spaces.
Radio station occupied in Salonica in solidarity to squats
Radio station "Imagine" occupied in Salonica in the run-up to the cross-country marches in solidarity to anarchist squats.
As the right-wing government in Athens has revealed its proposed anti-anarchist legislation amidst procedures of impeachment that may lead to immediate elections, anarchists, antiauthoritarians, libertarians and the entire spectrum of the social antagonistic movement is stepping up its response to State repression by holding a series of cross-country protest marches in solidarity to political and
Cochon, Georges, 1879-1959
A short biography of French anarchist, pioneering tenants' organiser and conscientious objector Georges Cochon.
Grandfather of squatting
Georges Alexandre Cochon was born on the 26th March 1879 at Chartres. Earning a living as a worker in the upholstering trade, he gravitated towards the anarchist movement in Paris.
