In this interview, we explore the confrontational dynamic in Seattle that forced the police to abandon a police station and to let a strange “Autonomous zone” spring up in the heart of the city. Continue reading “Everything seems so fragile and powerful at the same time.” A conversation about the Seattle Autonomous Zone
We received two texts from Chilean friends in the wake of the intense riots that have followed the public transport price increase since October 18, 2019, with seven dead and the subsequent proclamation of a state of emergency. The first is a translation from the Chilean collective Vitrina Dystópica, whose original can be found here. The second is a translation of an exchange between friends … Continue reading The Empire is trembling: Two translations from the uprising in Chile
Some Mexican amigas sent us the following letter, in which they recount the events of the feminist protests that took place on August 12-16. Two weeks earlier, a 17-year-old girl had been raped by four cops. Continue reading We Won’t Yield To Their Provocations: Notes on Mexico City’s Feminist Protests
On December 8th, 2018, Paris was saved from the flames! Continue reading Paris, December 25th, 2018
While the national press is busy rambling on about the unreasonableness of the Yellow Vests for having welcomed “thugs” into the movement, the crassest elements of the far-right are trying to appropriate its momentum, the left of the unions gets timidly involved, and a certain autonomous milieu—however revolutionary it may be—doesn’t know how to relate to a phenomenon that exceeds it. Continue reading Reflections on Maidan, December 8th, 2018
Everything has already been said about this city and the centuries-long link between what is decided here and what is diffused throughout the country. The city was constructed as the capital of the society throughout the period of absolute monarchy, and the revolutionaries who inherited it never made much of an effort to go beyond this useful tool called Paris. Continue reading Paris, November 30th, 2018
A little more than a month has gone by since the Mexican State celebrated its saddest and most grotesque party–the presidential election. Continue reading Mexico City, August 6th, 2018
