France, Alternative Libertaire AL January (special
issue) Dossier: The city is ours! A file coordinated by Julien (AL
Alsace) (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Caracas to Paris via the Southeast Asian and the Andalusian plain of the Guadalquivir, in
urban or rural areas, almost no surface of the globe can escape the clutches of
capitalism. ---- Economic restructuring the system operates since the 1970s is not without
consequences for land: large and imposed unnecessary projects (GPII) dramatic increase in
property prices and property in all major cities, massive displacement of people under the
guise of urban renewal, gentrification, scarcity of arable land ... ---- All these evils
one purpose: the absorption of surplus capital to invest in a context of general crisis.
As long as the market, based on the sacrosanct right of property, constitute the compass
of the land, it will be difficult to escape.
But with the deadly grip of capitalism at bay, and while more than 50% of the world
population today is urban (three quarters in 2050), reactions exist and even amplify. Long
neglected by organizations of the left and the labor movement, urban struggles back today
with strength and legitimacy to the front of the stage.
Whether the opening of places to live self, organizing rent strikes, the Democratic hand
recovery of certain neighborhoods or whole towns, the denunciation of urban law
enforcement or contesting sumptuary development projects and delusional, possible forms of
action are multiple and multifaceted as are the urban spaces.
But all these struggles and claims converge in the same direction: the challenge to the
capitalist production of space and claim a "right to the city", a right to "his" city,
released segregation of business and domination.
Contents of the file:
? Faced with the housing crisis: abolish the real estate market
Gentrification: how to resist?
Toulouse: The Crea, a grain of sand in the machine gentrify
Paris: the inadequately housed force the blockade
Montpellier: Luttopia, Act II
Venezuela: Bienvenidos to Piedrita, earth-popular power against
France: Alternative Democracy, the effect Saillans
Ile-de-France: Grand Paris for the Grand Capital
The burden of metropolization
A ZAD to crystallize the resistors?
History: 1922 , Mexico City rose against the owners
Conclusion: Urban Struggles toward new life
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http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Dossier-La-ville-est-a-nous
