UK: Squatting as a solution to the housing crisis
The occupation of the former police station on Lower Clapton Road by Hackney residents who describe themselves as “not political” but homeless provides the owners – namely Free School Trust the Olive...
View ArticleUK: Squatting, adverse possession and the LASPO s.144 debacle
Ancient Roman law gives illegal squatter £400,000 home. Or so you would think from the coverage of builder Keith Best’s Land Registry claim to have 35 Church Road, Newbury Park, Ilford, registered in...
View ArticleBarcelona: And on the seventh day fires subside
What happened in Barcelona this past week isn’t over. In the present circumstances it would not be a cliché to say that the fires that were set from the 26th to the 31st of May, and they numbered in...
View ArticleUK: Why #ACAB? One person’s experience of Political Policing
Given all the media attention on Police malpractice recently, and the constant, repetitive wheeling out of the “few bad apples” analogy, it seemed timely to explain why Anticapitalists hate the Police...
View ArticleBarcelona: The inspiring example of Can Vies
Can Vies social centre in Barcelona recently hit the headlines across the world when its eviction led to five consecutive nights of protest and rioting. But the story is much bigger than that. At the...
View ArticleLondon: Squatting, Media and the Liberal Myth
(No specific names or places have been used in this article. Much of the information is purposefully left vague for two reasons. Firstly to respect people’s anonymity and secondly so individuals and...
View ArticleUK: 6 reasons to support your local squats
Squatting has always been a direct solution to housing need, providing homeless people with immediate free housing that they can have some control over. Squatting has changed over the decades, from...
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Netherlands: The current housing crisis and the repression of squatting
The vacancy crunch: The current housing crisis in the Netherlands and the repression of squatting Recently, an opportunity to discuss the current housing crisis in the Netherlands was wasted. The...
View ArticleLleida (Catalonia): Squatted Social Centre ‘La Chispa’ Resists Eviction
After a lengthy legal process against four ex-occupiers the vibrant, active, self-managed SPARK project among the orchards of Lleida is condemned to be evicted in the new year by capitalist speculation...
View ArticleNotre-Dame-des-Landes (France): The Movement is Dead, Long Live… Reform!
This text was written during fall 2017 on the ZAD of Notre-Dame- des-Landes, France. Since then, the situation drastically changed when the government announced on January 17 th , 2018 that they are...
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