Tag Archives: Spain
“we are angry, we are upset, we are the indignants”
Freedom talks to a representative from Spain’s Real Democracy Now movement We meet outside Angel tube station on the rarest of sunny bank holiday Mondays. After grabbing a coffee we find somewhere quiet to talk about the incredible events that are happening in Spain and how they made their way across the Channel to the [...]
7. The end, at last.
We finish up, finally, going through one last reflection. The 15-M movement had a beginning and will have an end. Being realistic and keeping in mind how few us anarchists and our experiences are, it’s rather improbable that our participation will be the real component that determines the development of the movement and its end. [...]
6. Tactical Questions
The text is becoming long and we want to close it with some some reflections –we’ll try to be brief– about certain tactical aspects that we’ve seen, and that we’ll continue to see, in the coming days. Violence/Non-violence: As we mentioned while describing it, the rejection of violence is a basic point that the May [...]
5. Neighborhood Assemblies: Hopes and Localisms
In large part this text was written while considering the popular neighborhood assemblies that have been called for May 18, which should explain its urgency, its precipitation, and a large part of the errors that it may have. The extension to the neighborhoods is a logical extension because the occupation in Sol is unsustainable in [...]
4. Some objectives and possibles axes for action
This proposal to participate practically and concretely has several objectives. One, obviously, is to improve our conditions of survival within capitalism. Although we know someone will call that reformism, for us it is simply necessary. Another objective is to signal and deconstruct, during the process, all of the contradictions and miseries of capitalism, democracy, the [...]
3. Towards a concrete and practical anarchist participation
In our opinion, what’s at stake in the May 15 movement is to ensure that it becomes a point of departure to stimulate the everyday struggle for basic and concrete aspects, a struggle that is carried out through horizantalism, assemblyism, direct action, direct participation, solidarity, etc. which all form part of the basic coordinates of [...]
2. What’s not at stake. A strategic vision.
That said, what can we as anarchists do over there? For any anarchist who is at least somewhat connected to reality, fortunately the great majority, it’s clear that we must be there, that there is something to be excited about. What none of us knows too clearly is what we can do, what we can [...]
London Assembly of 15M movement
Calendar weekend June 4th-5th 2011 Friday, June 3rd 8pm: Weekend acampada starts at Belgrave Square in front of the Spanish Embassy, 39 Chesham Place, London SW1X 8SB (tube: Hyde Park Corner or Victoria). » Map 8.30pm: Preparatory meeting for the Assembly: London Assembly and 15M movement’s identity; framework for collaboration with other UK and European [...]
Anarchists and the 15-M Movement: Reflections and Proposals
This text was written in Madrid, so many of the descriptions and reflections may not match the reality of other locations, especially given the heterogeneity of the 15-M Movement. Even so, we think that it could be useful as a point of departure for reflection for all the comrades involved in the assemblies, regardless of [...]
Still fighting Franco
Probably the most instantly recognisable name in UK anarchism, along with the Angry Brigade, Stuart Christie remains a figure of fearsome political reputation, not least for his attempt to assassinate fascist leader General Franco in 1964. As a young Scottish anarchist he travelled to Spain with the intention of blowing up Franco to aid the [...]
