The autonomous Community of the Occupied Prosfygika under threat by the Greek state

The Community of the Occupied Prosfygika is one of the most emblematic examples of an autonomous urban housing community in Greece and Europe. Read more about their history HERE. Today, it is once again facing the threat of the State. In the summer of 2025, a programmatic contract was signed between the Region of Attica, […]

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February 22, 2026
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Tenants’ Power and Dual Strategy! Reflections from Bostadsvrålet!

Written by Nikos Vrantsis Recently we discussed what Swedish tenants’ unions might learn from struggles abroad. Sweden has one of the largest tenants’ unions in the world, with around half a million members. Yet despite its size, the union has become so institutionalized that landlords keep winning. Rents rise year after year despite mandatory negotiations; […]

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November 16, 2025
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Urban Design, Autonomy, and the Right to the City: Insights from Jere Kuzmanić

An interview with anarchist urbanist Jere Kuzmanić, from Split, Croatia for the Greek digital journal Aftoleksi. He is a researcher, PhD candidate, and department member at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya in Barcelona. He participates in scientific and activist research projects with a particular interest in social and environmental justice, direct action and cooperation in […]

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March 8, 2025
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Stavros Stavrides: Public Space as Commons

Written by Stavros Stavrides. This concept-defining text first appeared in the anthology Uncovered: Nicosia International Airport (edited by Başak Şenova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou). Can public space be efficiently described as the space of public use? Should we ignore the role of those who guarantee or allow public use? And should we ignore also the effects […]

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August 25, 2024
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Right to housing and its relation to democracy

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Written by Yavor Tarinski Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart. ~Matthew Desmond[1] The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because of it) it is being contested by capitalist forces worldwide.  Capitalist […]

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July 20, 2024
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The Social Ecology of Ruins

Written by Theo Rouhette The proliferation of decayed factories, military installations, rural villages or transportation networks is often attributed to the force of creative destruction under capitalism, the endogenous process that ‘incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one’ (Schumpeter, 1942). Marxist thinkers focused on the […]

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June 30, 2024
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Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte (e-book)

  “Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte” is a book that brings together illustrations by Renato Baruq and photographs by Cadu Passos, both from the Kasa Invisível squat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. During 2022 and 2023, the two Brazilian artists and organizers documented almost 20 old abandoned houses in the […]

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May 3, 2024
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From citizens of nations to citizens of cities

Written by Yavor Tarinski [C]itizens today no longer even approximate the high and eminently human standard of citizenship that was established in the Hellenic world—a meaning that must be recovered, as well as the personal and social training, or paideia, for producing citizens. ~Murray Bookchin[1] Often, when people advocate for the reinvigoration of citizenship in […]

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February 9, 2024
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The Evolution of Cities

Written by Elisée Reclus in 1895 To look at our enormous cities, expanding day by day and almost hour by hour, engulfing year by year fresh colonies of immigrants, and running out their suckers, like giant octopuses, into the surrounding country, one feels a sort of shudder come over one, as if in presence of […]

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July 2, 2023
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