squatting

In 2005 ten families, nearly all elderly, squatted a block of flats in Seville demanding better housing. Now the local council is trying to evict some of them.

An interesting personal account of squatting on an estate in Tower Hamlets, east London.

This is a short documentation of an informal letter exchange. A friend from Brazil tidies up his…

A critical review of Mike Davis' influential book on the huge growth in squatter settlements around the world.

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.

On Saturday 26 September, Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers movement, was attacked in the Kennedy Road settlement, Durban, by an armed mob chanting ethnic slogans and backed, fully, by the ANC. This article is based on a report from an Abahlali member in Durban.

The Red Menace reviews No Reservations: Housing, Space and Class Struggle.

Fascists attack two Salonica squats while struggle against anti-immigration policies intensifies.

Nazis organised by the police in vigilante groups in Agios Panteleimonas attacked one of the oldest…

Paul Petard reflects on a squatted social centre, now evicted, that he used to frequent.

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…

Athens and Salonica streets flooded by mass protest marches in solidarity to squats threatened by…