Another article from the Iberian Peninsula that clarifies, analyses and attacks the context between coronavirus and capitalism.
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Category: Spain
Santiago López Petit: The political construction of the emergency
The social malaise spreads moment by moment. The endless sequence of confinement – de-confinement – re-confinement – is the rope that slowly asphyxiates us. It is the rope that a State, incapable and seized by panic, holds to, to try to impose its new normal. Now we know that the announced new normal is nothing more than the continuation of this nightmare. When it all started, it seemed that we were in a science fiction movie, and that we were masked protagonists. The contained emotion of the first month was made up of fear and relief; the fear of dying and the relief of not having to work. The balconies strove to open up to the sky. Now there are no songs. The slogan “Everything will be fine” sounds even more stupid, and we have learned that we are only the useful fools of a moment in the history of capitalism. The plot can be summed up in a few words: unbridled capitalism – what is usually known as neoliberalism – produces a virus that capitalism itself reuses to control us. In the silence of the night subjected to a curfew, the cry of “Enough!” is heard. We are tired, fed up with so much uncertainty, fed up with so many falsehoods and, above all, fed up with so much arbitrariness.
Continue reading Santiago López Petit: The political construction of the emergencyUpdate on anarchist comrade Gabriel Pombo da Silva
Mansilla de las Mulas (León). Spain. An update on anarchist prisoner Gabriel Pombo da Silva.
Continue reading Update on anarchist comrade Gabriel Pombo da Silva#Spain: 14 anarchist/libertarian prisoners take part in a rotative hunger strike
Spain. From last 1st of September on, at least 14 prisoners, mostly anarchists, are currently taking part in a new rotative hunger strike against the precarious health conditions in the Spanish prisons. They proclaim also a 14 point program against isolation custody (FIES/DERT), tortures and physical and psychological violence from the prison guards, dispersion of prisoners far from their home, etc. Every comrade is doing a 10-days-hungerstrike, one following the other; every month 3 prisoners participate.
Continue reading #Spain: 14 anarchist/libertarian prisoners take part in a rotative hunger strike#Madrid: Ateneo Libertario de #Vallekas evicted
Madrid. At 7 a.m. on October 23rd, numerous riot police vans came to the social center to proceed with their eviction. The collective called for a rally for the same afternoon at 8:00 p.m. in the Amos Acero Park.
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“I’m not sure what the fatal secret is”
Mathilde in The Castle of Otranto
The recent media campaign against the occupation of homes was not the first, but one of the most intense in recent times. Its launch, on the eve of a probable intensification of the housing conflict, does not seem to be coincidental. The economic and health crisis has put the sectors involved on alert, and this seems to be a first move on one side. This campaign is beginning to have answers, especially in the form of articles and social networks. In these responses, it has been denounced that the phenomenon of home occupation is less widespread than the media suggests with an alarmist tone. The data and statistics reinforce this denunciation. Moreover, it has been rightly criticised that squatting is being deliberately confused with breaking and entering. Finally, an attempt has been made to refocus the debate on the problem of access to housing, which is the primary cause of property occupation.
Continue reading Spanish State: Occupation, the ghost of the table#COVID19 #Madrid: The neighborhood associations of #Villaverde, #Usera, #Vallecas and #Carabanchel rise up against the proposal of selective confinements
Madrid. Spain. The neighborhood associations of Carabanchel, Villaverde, Usera, Puente and Villa de Vallecas categorically rejected the proposal of selective confinement of their neighborhoods to stop the advance of Covid-19. About thirty of these groups, together with the FRAVM, made the “Manifesto for the Dignity of the South in the face of the second wave” public, a forceful writing that reviews a good part of the endemic problems and the abandonment of the Administration that these districts have suffered for decades and serves to confront the “stigmatization, exclusion and territorial discrimination”. We do not share everything in the following statement, even reject some parts (like the part about sharing a police station in Usera and Villaverde). Still we think its an important read about the growing resistance in Madrid against classist cofinement measures in the framework of COVID-19.
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Madrid. On September 16, it was again made clear that solidarity and direct action are the best weapon we have as a means of defense against the state and repression. About 150 people from Vallekas and other neighborhoods of the city gathered at the door of the Ateneo Libertario de Vallekas to prevent the eviction of the space. This is not just the eviction of a space, it is the defense of squatting as a tool of struggle in the social war, as a tool to create with our own hands, outside of parties and institutions, spaces of struggle, meeting and learning.
Continue reading #Madrid: First attempt to evict the #AteneoLibertario in #Vallekas stopped. The struggle continuesAmador Fernández-Savater: Questions engendered by a #virus
A transcription (in translation) of a talk by Amador Fernández-Savater at a colloquium held in Madrid at Espacio La Atenea, “To Inhabit and to govern uncertainty. Reflecting together in confusing times ”. Wednesday, July 15.
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Madrid. Spain. At the end of August we received a nice notification from the court that on September 16th the police and the locksmith would come to the space to proceed with the eviction. Our space, the Ateneo Libertario de Vallekas, has been serving for two years as a place for activities, debates, assemblies, gymnasium and a meeting point for various libertarian initiatives.
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