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from Liberación Total (March 27, 2012) via This is our Job:

Street protests against the attacks of capitalist States on our living conditions have recently spread throughout Europe. Despite the strikes, actions, and massive demonstrations, and despite the broad movements that haven’t even expressed any grand revolutionary aspirations beyond the mere defense of minimum basic necessities, the States have responded with indifference.

Appealing to confusing economic formulas, numbers, statistics, and abstract concepts, those States have tried to locate the problem’s origin in inaccessible, metaphysical realities. However, the origin and causes of our daily problems have no metaphysical foundation whatsoever. Poverty, exploitation, repression, and systematic abuse are the results of very concrete structures, of specific decisions taken by specific people who have specific interests.

One such structure is called the College of Business Administration and Management (ESADE). Nestled in the middle of the wealthy Pedralbes neighborhood, this school produces a stream of executives who—day after day—order, manage, and benefit from the destruction of the lives of the great majority of the population. Each year, the school propels social predators into the world, and for the rest of their lives they dedicate themselves to plundering and trampling on this country’s exploited from their institutional (like the presidency of the Generalitat itself, occupied by Artur Mas) or corporate positions. Read more…

From Hommodolars Contrainformación (August 12, 2010) via Liberación Total (July 30, 2010): http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/a-much-needed-invitation-to-discuss-the-offensive-against-the-state-capital-and-all-forms-of-authority/

Note from TIOJ: As you can see, this piece has been in our “translation queue” for just over a year now. We finally decided to finish it because we feel it’s a worthwhile addition to the general discourse surrounding insurrectionary praxis. Some of the ideas have already been applied by various groups, while others prefigure certain events of the past year. In any case, many thanks to the comrades who wrote it, and we apologize for the delay!
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[editors note:  This is a machine translation of a Spanish text titled “La epidemia de rabia en España (1996-2007)” and can be found here:  http://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/?q=node/18247  Please feel free to write to us, or comment where this translation could be improved]

Submitted by info on Thu, 07/28/2011 – 10:25

Digitized by Czolgosz – Reflections for the revolt. Originally published in the
Journal loopholes.

The epidemic of rabies in Spain (1996 – 2007)

Let us take away what bailao (presentation)

Believe me that as we operate, regardless of the law, anything other than the
strictest honesty would bring dire consequences.

Jack London, Murder S.L.

For some time, some partners feel the need to take stock of experience in the
Spanish State for sectors of militant anarchists, communists and independent, which
for a time converged around a certain idea “insurrection.” This need arises from two
circumstances. The first is the evidence that it has closed a stage. We are not in
the same spot ten years ago or even five-, and we want to draw relevant conclusions
to better face battles that are not in a hazy future, but already we are bearing
down. This requires a debate, or at least cause a reflection. Read more…