While Elon Musk struggles to get his AI to stop calling itself Mecha Hitler, the less techy wing of the elites are up to old tricks …
Anarchist News Review: Grok The Nazi, Rishi’s Return To Banking and Cartel Cash Bungs
Tag: Housing
Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail
Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem
Anarchist News Review: Anti-fascist crackdown, Stock market falls, new BDS and predicting murder
“There’s a strong tradition of far-right activism in universities, anti-fascists have been trying to combat that and they’ve been demonised for it” ~ Mike Finn joins us to talk about Austria’s targeting of anti-fascists barely a month after being forced into a three-party coalition to shut out the far-right, and how “liberal order” governments across
Spain: Hundreds of thousands on the streets for affordable housing
In more than 40 locations across the country, tenants unions and neighbourhood assemblies carried out protest actions last weekend ~ Rob Latchford ~ Spain’s first national housing march was organised over the weekend, thanks to the collaborative work of dozens of pro-housing organisations and unions.
Hundreds march against gentrification in Peckham
Locals demand refurbished council housing instead of demolitions and sell-offs ~ Blade Runner ~ Another demonstration against gentrification gathered in Peckham Square on Saturday (1 March) and moved down through Camberwell Green and Elephant & Castle, ultimately arriving at Mercato Metropolitano.
Barcelona: Mass resistance to eviction at Casa Orsola
Live-streamed mobilisation continues in latest battle against gentrification ~ Blade Runner ~ The planned eviction of tenants at Casa Orsola was temporarily halted this weekend after large-scale resistance by housing groups, residents, and local supporters.
Plaça de Valencia occupation for decent housing
A daily program turned the square into a space for community life, political action, training and meeting ~ Ainhoa Lleida, Directa ~ The rain does not prevent the fourth night of the protest camp for housing and against tourism in Valencia from going ahead.
Grenfell: Avoidable deaths and the pursuit of profit
Ritual apologies and promises of justice tomorrow offer no solutions to the underlying causes of Grenfell.
Naples walkway collapse: Evacuees set up aid points, occupy local University
For decades residents have campaigned for fair housing solutions
Community ownership and the anarchist path to housing
Construction is not the cure for the housing crisis, no matter what election promises claim
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Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
