On May 26, citizens across Spain went to the polls to vote in municipal and European elections. The results were widely seen as a setback to the municipalist wave that swept Spain’s major cities four years prior. Carlos Delclós published …
We can see clearly how SYRIZA is managing power. That’s why we ought to prepare ourselves for the next stages of this repressive offense. [Originally published by Athens Indymedia.] There is an undeniable fact. Counting the evacuated squats during the …
Athens: Squat evacuation, the “gentle” arm of the Left’s repression Read more →
History Workshop Journal, Volume 83, Issue 1, Spring 2017, Pages 79–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbx024 Christine Wall Published: 07 June 2017 WHOLE THING AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE Abstract By the mid 1970s an estimated 20–30,000 people throughout Greater London had reclaimed, repaired and squatted …
Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s: Feminism, Housing and Urban Change in Hackney Read more →
On the night of September 17 2013, the Greek rapper Pavlos Fyssas (Killah P) and his friends sat in the local coffee shop Korali, in Keratsini, to the south of Athens. There was a football match on the TV. The …
[From September] The sale can only go through once the building is empty—which it currently isn’t. The City Council Of Milan has agreed to sell the complex of buildings that houses beloved arts and music hub Macao. The deal, reportedly …
Milan council agrees to sell Macao property for €22 million Read more →
[From Nov14] Baobab is one of many informal settlements in Rome and provided basic shelter to people who were forced out the system. Baobab was setup for the first time in 2015. Most people stayed only for a few days …
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Abstract This article makes four related arguments regarding the academic field of migration and refugee studies (MARS) in the UK and its relations of knowledge production with UK state agencies. The first, most empirical, argument is that the field’s members …
Anarchism in the UK is a joke. Once symbolising hard-fought struggles for freedom, the word has been stripped bare to make way for narrow-minded, separatist and hateful identity politics by middle class activists keen to protect their own privileges. We …
Against Anarcho-Liberalism and the curse of identity politics Read more →
Things are going well with Amsterdam. The city is extremely popular. More visitors come every year. While there were still plans to demolish the entire ring of canals in the 1950s, the same canal belt is now Unesco’s cultural heritage. …
ADM in newspaper Het Parool (Tuesday, september 4th 2018): ‘Commercialism eradicates the soul of the city’ (by Dimitris Dalakoglou, professor social anthropology VU university Amsterdam): “The closure of ADM and the rest of the squats is the death of Amsterdam. …