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Laura Vicente: “Mujeres Libres: A genealogy of anarchist feminism”

Posted on March 7, 2023 by

‘This was “their revolution of life”, a long-term transformation that began to change ways of life, personal relationships, work, “care” and an endless number of other aspects, paying attention to the small, to the quiet, to the intimate, to the breath of each body. These women glimpsed other possible worlds and, despite the defeat, they never forgot it. To recover those threads of memory, that genealogy of a feminist, anarchist and proletarian revolution, should be a necessary task for women and for current feminist movements.’

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Amador Fernández-Savater: “15M in the Spanish labyrinth”

Posted on May 20, 2021 by

“15M invents a place from which to feel, think and act with autonomy, a space that does not sell promises or solutions, that does not ask for adherence, but rather invites anyone to elaborate questions about and take actions with regard to life in common.”

Posted in anarchism, autonomy, defeat, democracy, freedom, melancholy, Nota Bene, revolt, the common, the Left

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“Catalonia: Trapped between nationalisms”

Posted on October 19, 2019 by

‘While both the Spanish and the Catalan regional governments, and their respective parliaments, are divided and paralysed over what to do next, anarchists find themselves again in the uncomfortable position of siding with neither, while opposing and fighting against state violence, and defending more radical forms of autonomy, beyond “national sovereignty”.’

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John McClure: “Something Darker than Farce: the Spanish Left again Turns Victory to Defeat”

Posted on August 15, 2019 by

“In the end, history repeats itself, although what occurs is something darker than farce. As they did in 2016, the Socialists fail on July 25th to get the support they need in order to form a government. As for Podemos, it once again strikes a pose of stubborn, puerile defiance that will almost certainly cost it dearly in the next elections.”

Posted in crisis, defeat, In The News, the Left, tragic politics

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Wayne Price: “Some Lessons from Revolutionary History”

Posted on July 26, 2018 by

“A review of Loren Goldner’s Revolution, Defeat, and Theoretical Underdevelopment: Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia (2017), a book by a libertarian Marxist sympathetic to anarchism who analyses four revolutions in the 20th century and discusses their lessons.”

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“Basque Group ETA Disbands, after Terrorist Campaign Spanning Generations”

Posted on May 3, 2018 by

“ETA, the Basque separatist group, is dissolving itself, it stated in a letter published on Wednesday, closing a history that included one of the longest terrorism campaigns in modern Europe, which killed over 800 people in Spain. … The news reflected what has been evident for years, that ETA is a spent force, its ranks decimated by arrests, its popularity minimal in the Basque region along Spain’s north coast. In their long struggle, the government has won.”

Posted in autonomy, defeat, In The News, revolution, terror, the Left, tragic politics, violence

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