through europe

Days, in London, always pass fast. This city embodies the very essence of late capitalism. Its illness. Working over-time, running along underground platforms, eating late at night, pills, kebabs, sleeping drunk on buses, waking up at the last stop or already late for work.
There couldn’t possibly be a better city for activism.

La crisi che inizia simbolicamente il 23 settembre del 2008 con la caduta di Lehman Brothers si presenta come la seconda grande, come una specie di prova apocalittica: o riusciamo a superarla oppure ci affonda collettivamente nella miseria.  Ci si ripete con petulanza che i paesi che fanno le riforme necessaria supereranno il prossimo giro, e quelli che non le faranno rimarranno al margine della storia in una specie di strada senza uscita.

Nos interpelan como ciudadanos

Hoy el ciudadano ya no es un hombre libre. El ciudadano ha dejado de ser el hombre libre que quiere vivir en una comunidad libre. La conciencia política que no se enseña sino que se conquista, ha desaparecido paulatinamente. No podía ser de otra manera. El espacio público se ha convertido en una calle llena de tiendas abiertas a todas horas, en un programa de televisión en el que un imbécil nos cuenta detalladamente por qué se separó de su mujer.

November 24, 2010. A date to remember. A few months after the Greek riots, a few weeks after the French wave of general strikes, Britain, Italy and Portugal synchronized their unrest against the new measures of austerity enforced by their respective governments. While British students descended in mass on the streets, their Italian equivalents attacked the palace of the Senate, before moving to occupy the Coliseum. At the same time, in Portugal, the unions called for a general strike that managed to paralyze the entire country, with peaks of 80% adhesion among the workers of several industries.