Category: collapse capitalism

Spain ‘Steals the Sun’…Charges usage due to Fossil Fuel corruption

Spanish renewables industry destroyed by proposed tax on sunshine.
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Spain Privatizes The Sun: Multi Millon Dollar Penalties For Collecting Sunlight

 AFTER A DELAY WHICH SERVED TO PARALYSE THE SOLAR INDUSTRY SPAIN IS GOING AHEAD. If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use you will get a fine not exceeding 30 million euros.. What the hell is going on in Spain? This is one of 100’s of crazy, often neo-fascist measures by a govt with a total majority (by default) yet drowning in corruption scandals and huge popular resistance.
They’ve already decimated the promising renewable energy sector by taxes and illegally cutting contracted subsidies, while promoting, oil, gas and fracking. What the hell? Why?
For one thing the fossil fuel sector has huge scandals, its a honey pot, eg. they’re raising prices to pay billions for estimated losses due to modernisation;  for 40 years electric meters grossly overcharged the public;  gas purchase prices are still kept totally secret. Continue reading “Spain ‘Steals the Sun’…Charges usage due to Fossil Fuel corruption”

Solidarity Demo today against State Attacks

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13-de-junioIn recent years we have seen an increase in repression against anarchists and other rebels in the Spanish state.

The latest example has been the large-scale operations Pandora and Piñata. Acting in response to the growth of activity and movement as well as the uprisings across the country, especially in Catalonia, the state has arrested dozens of  companions under the pretext of anti-terrorism law. The goal has been to implement a climate of fear and inaction.

Although most of the accused are already out of prison, all still have charges pending trial. Now is our time to show that their attempts to silence will not work and that their actions have consequences. June 13 is a day of action by all those indicted and prosecuted,In Barcelona there will be a combative demonstration and in Madrid also near the start of a campaign. We appeal to international solidarity and support in the form which they deem appropriate.IMG_2081

En los ultimos años hemos visto un aumento de la represion contra los anarquistas y otros rebeldes, en el estado español.

El ultimo ejemplo han sido las operaciones a gran escala Pandora y Piñata. Actuando como respuesta al crecimiento de la actividad y movimiento asi como de las revueltas en todo el pais, especialmente en Cataluña, el estado ha arrestado a una docena de compañeros bajo el pretexto de la ley antiterrorista. El objetivo ha sido el de implantar un clima de miedo e inaccion.

Aunque la mayoria de los imputados estan ya fuera de prision, todos siguen teniendo cargos pendientes de juicio. Ahora es nuestro momento de mostrarles que sus intentos por silenciarnos no funcionaran y que sus acciones tendran consecuencias. El 13 de junio es un dia de accion por todos aquellos encausados y perseguidos, tanto en las ultimas operaciones como en otras. Ese dia en barcelona habra una manifestacion combativa y en madrid tambien junto al inicio de una campaña. Hacemos un llamamiento a la solidaridad y el apoyo internacional de la forma que cada cual considere apropiada.

Zaragoza Occupiers declare for Anarchism

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Statement from the Assembly of the Kike Mur Occupied Social Center (CSO ), in Zaragoza

  June , 2015  It is time to do some thinking, to confirm our commitment and to forge ahead.

The Assembly of the squatted social center Kike Mur has been, for over four years,  giving life to an abandoned building and putting into practice the assemblyism, horizontality and anti-authoritarian methods.

We believe that it’s now a good idea to make a  political definition of the reality we have been creating throughout our history. We have self-organized by way of a free association of people working together and  trying to be equal. We decide, we act and we take responsibility for managing the resources.28F

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We define ourselves as anarchists. This will not entail any change in the management of the CSO, and in our lives, but fulfills the need to define the attitude with which we organize ourselves and the work we do within this space.

For these reasons,
DEATH TO THE STATE AND LIVE ANARCHY! Continue reading “Zaragoza Occupiers declare for Anarchism”

Adventures in the New Economies of Catalonia: Film Project

Autogestió: Adventures into the New Economies of Catalonia from Enfable on Vimeo.  article AVAILABLE IN Castellano and Catalan

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Eleven Feminisms in One: Going Viral Despite Internet Patriarchy

Dozens of varying Feminisms are undermining long established patrarchal priveliges worldwide

Feminism is under fierce attack on the internet. When looking for illustrations for this post I found many anti feminist sites. In the images I saw stacks of doctored photos denigrating feminism by mockery, divide-and-rule, inventions, junk science, misandry, rape celebration, patronizing, etc.

Mostly it seemed to me like pathetic bleating by Nth American men about losing any of their socially permitted patriarchal privileges,… But switch language on Google and you get similar results in different contexts..

Seems like we’re living through  giant  social battles that are going on around the world, in which  millions of women feel empowered by a perceived freedom and individuality on social media, threatening to undermine long established systems of cultural semi slavery, and provoking ‘testerical’ reactions from religious and authority figures.

One classic sexist tactic is  to single out  and exaggerate separatist ideas and continuously brand all feminists as ‘smelly, hairy, man haters’ etc. Continue reading “Eleven Feminisms in One: Going Viral Despite Internet Patriarchy”

review: The Fakir of Florence + The Anarchist Revelation..Paul Cudenec’s Anarcho-Spirituality

united struggle..diverse freedom, 2 Publications on anarchism have been thriving since the early 2000s. Yet, there is still a place for surprisingly unique releases. Paul Cudenec’s The Fakir of Florence, March 2016, explores the relations between anarchism and philosophy, psychology, and religion.
 The Fakir of Florence is his first novel, following from his philosophical masterpiece The Anarchist Revelation which attempts no less to equip contemporary anarchism with  the transformation not only of society’s structures but also of people’s souls. People looking for in-depth analyses of governmental bodies, labor conditions, or gender and race relations might have to turn somewhere else. No single book has it all.fakir
Paul Cudenec is both a committed activist and a scholar who seems able to synthesize the insights of the past from the roots of anarchism to Sufism to astrophysics. Cudenec provides evidence that anarchism’s roots lie partly in this life-embracing source of inspiration, the bringer of art and poetry as well as of resistance and revolt. 

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Massacre of Migrants: Fighting Apartheid State Borders

All the outrage means nothing unless you are prepared to fight against the borders themselves.

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  first part from rabble with thanks.       traducción de ‘Google en castellano abajo    Another week, another inexcusable tragedy at the borders. 40 more people flounder to their watery graves, just as a ship was approaching to rescue them.Another figure to add to the 2000-odd refugees who’ve lost their lives in the Mediterranean this year already. The corporate press and Twitterati-spectators deliver their depressingly inevitable, yet sensationally-packaged contribution to the endless ‘debates’ about immigration: “2015 On Pace To Break Record For Migrant Deaths”.

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