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Amsterdam Squatting: Crime or Creative Space Use?
When one door closes, another door opens. Well, that’s hardly ever the case, but who gives a shit anyway? Certainly not the Amsterdam squatter who didn’t hold a key to any front door in the first...
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Amsterdam: The Rise and Death of the Just City of Amsterdam
The Story of Op de Valreep, A Squatted Social Centre in Amsterdam Oost Urban planning was once – perhaps at its best, defined by Patsy Healey as “managing our coexistence in shared spaces.” Planning...
View ArticleSquatting in England: Heritage & Prospects
Over the past few years, there has been a push to criminalize squatting across Western Europe. But in a time of increasing economic instability, can governments succeed in suppressing squatting? What...
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 ArticleBerlin: Squatting memories
When, for a short time at the beginning of the nineties, the underground was in charge of East Berlin’s centre, activist and photographer Ben de Biel was there: at Kunsthaus Tacheles, at I.M. Eimer,...
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 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...
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London: Frestonia Squatters Who Declared Independence from the UK in 1977
From Vice Magazine by Harry Sword In 1977, squatters on Freston Road, Notting Hill, in London, declared independence from the British state. Facing eviction by the Greater London Council (GLC), the...
View ArticleBerlin: Our Own Private Germany
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a group of squatters from East and West set out to build their own unified Germany. And, despite endless parties, questionable hygiene, and neo-Nazi turf wars, they...
View ArticlePandora’s box and the hotchpotch of Spanish anti-terrorism – about the recent...
Text written a week ago about Pandora’s police operation in Spain against anarchists The morning of Tuesday the 16th of December has surprised us with a wave of house raids and arrests. Surprised us?...
View ArticleSpanish State – Operation Pandora: Democracy imprisons 7 more anarchists
On December 16, Operation Pandora was unleashed. The State’s security forces burst into different houses and squats in Barcelona and Madrid, and eleven anarchist comrades were kidnapped. This...
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A Squatters Guide to Belfast
“You can’t squat in Belfast. Why? Because you… well you just can’t.” – Les Enfant Sans Souci Draconian laws. Psycho cops. Paramilitaries. Hoods with petrol bombs. Squatting in Northern Ireland presents...
View ArticleDead city: torturing squatters for a cleaner Barcelona
Note: Regarding this article, it is important to also read the comment about problems with the film and also two texts written as a response, currently only on es.squat.net, “Comunicado de Juan Pintos,...
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London: Regeneration Is Violence
Published on Southwark Notes Feb 21 with lots of images How is it in London in 2015 that people who reside in public housing can be subject to such extremes of subtle and unsubtle violence? When we use...
View ArticleIreland: What Housing Crisis? This is a capitalist crisis
Ours is a society in which, in every field, one group of people makes decisions, exercise control, limits choices, while the great majority have to accept these decisions, submit to this control and...
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Their Law: The New Energies of UK Squats, Social Centres and Eviction...
For anyone old enough to remember themselves as a teenager during the nineties, with fond memories of piercing their own ears (multiple times) whilst listening to the second album of The Prodigy ‘Music...
View ArticleParis: Against states and their borders
This text on the wave of sans-papiers occupations in Paris tells important lessons for those involved in migrant struggles on the strategies used by liberal democratic states to contain them. If we...
View ArticleLondon: Organising in our Communities
Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) have been organising together for two years on housing, benefits and other issues we face relating to poverty. Over time we have explored ways to make our...
View ArticleLondon: DiY regeneration shows how to solve housing crisis
We’re told the only solution to the housing crisis is to build more homes. Just whack up enough new build flats and the market will sort itself out and make things a bit more affordable, right? But if...
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