Den Bosch: Knoflook threatened with eviction

By: fawda - November 10th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

Knoflook has been located on the Havendijk in Den Bosch for almost 20 years. The building was purchased in 2001 by project developer Cornelis Huygens and was squatted in 2006 after years of vacancy and decay. Since then, Knoflook has provided space for residents, artists, starting bands and musicians, a vegan kitchen, a giveaway shop, information evenings, action groups and numerous youth initiatives.

Together we are the Knoflook!

The owner has filed a lawsuit against the residents for eviction, which would take place on December 4. An asbestos study was recently carried out. The owner now suddenly requests Knoflook and the residents to leave the building immediately and at impossibly short notice (before Tuesday, November 11). This is even before the court case. The Knoflook has started a campaign for the preservation of a free space in Den Bosch and against vacancy.

We claim our place in the city. Knoflook remains! [Read More]

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Nijmegen: old police station Dukenburg squatted

By: fawda - November 2nd, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

On Tuesday, October 28, 2025, we moved into the former police station on the Van Schuylenburgweg. After a year of vacancy and dilapidation in the hands of Hoedemakers Ontwikkeling, the building finally has a destination as a place to live and activities. We want to use this space for accessible social events, such as studio space, community kitchens and movie nights in which the neighborhood can also get involved.

A recent study by Statistics Netherlands shows that there are 17.8 million square meters of vacant buildings in the Netherlands. There has been no resident or tenant in it for at least a year. All that vacancy together is as much surface area as 200 thousand new-build apartments. That would offer enough space for all residents of Utrecht (377 thousand!). This is outrageous and with this action we are trying to tackle the housing shortage and the ever-increasing cost of food in our small way.

The building was built in 1988 as a police station and had that function until the early 2000s, after which it functioned as storage for police cars. In early 2024 the building went up for auction and came into the hands of Simon Passier’s and Marc Hoedemakers’ real estate company, Hoedemakers Ontwikkeling. In recent years, more and more real estate has come into the hands of these types of speculators, while rents are skyrocketing and residents sometimes have no choice but to leave their cities. [Read More]

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Brussels: Stop the eviction of the Zone Neutre collective

By: fawda - October 14th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

This Friday, October 17, we expect more than 100 police officers on the sidewalk of the building of the Zone Neutre collective to put its 70 residents, including 18 children, on the street when the sun rises. The building was empty and will remain empty for a long time. We will not accept this! Show your solidarity and come to Brussels to stop the deportations.

Since March, a group of undocumented people has been occupying a former building of the liberal union. The group of people is united behind the collective Zone Neutre and fights for the regularization of all, against racism and against closed borders and closed centers. Since the arrival of the collective, they have been organizing activities, film screenings, language lessons, lectures and more on the square in front of the building. A place that previously struggled with many social problems comes alive in the presence of the collective and becomes a place of encounter and solidarity.

The current owner of the building, Morad El Aisaoui, is a Dutch businessman and owner of several hotels in Amsterdam. He also plans to turn this building into a hotel, but does not yet have a permit or building plans for it. There are already three hotels on the square, one more luxurious than the other, while the district has barely 4% social housing. A new hotel is therefore far from what the residents of the district need, so the neighborhood decides to oppose gentrification and in solidarity with the struggle of the Zone Neutre. [Read More]

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Netherlands: 15 years of anti-squatting legislation. Villa Ivicke resquatted

By: fawda - October 5th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

October 5 update: On Saturday evening, October 4, Villa Ivicke was evicted. Around 25 people were reportedly arrested inside the building and released during the night.

Wassenaar — Today, on October 4, 2025, a large group of housing activists announces the squatting of Villa Ivicke. After 3 years of vacancy, this famous Wassenaar haunted house is finally inhabited again. The group wants to breathe new life into the cold palace, where further decay lurks as the years go by. They strive for a close-knit residential group that will take care of the building and the surrounding estate.

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the squatting ban, this is a gift for everyone who could no longer bear the desolate sight of the caged monument along the N44 road. If it is up to the squatters, light will soon shine from heated rooms again and the vegetable garden will be hoeed to their heart’s content.

Villa Ivicke was first squatted in 2018. In 2022, the residential group had to leave the building, after a long lawsuit filed by the municipality, because it was supposedly going to be used by the owner. This is of course sheer nonsense: Bever Holding has only one employee and he enjoys his retirement abroad. A fat lie that has been confirmed for everyone with 3 years of vacancy. So it’s high time to put it back into use. [Read More]

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Barcelona: Ca l’Espina Eviction Callout

By: fawda - September 24th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

Five years and 6 months have passed since the liberation of Ca l’Espina, a building located at Carrer d’Asturias nº 12, in the heart of Gràcia, Barcelona. A gentrified neighborhood we no longer recognize, sold out to tourism and speculation, .
With great anger and sadness we have received the eviction date, October 2, 2025. The owner, Bojous, S.L., along with the Mossos d’Esquadra, will once again militarize the neighborhood to try to kick us out of our home.
Throughout these years, we have challenged the logic imposed by capital, establishing mutual aid as both an essential and everyday practice. It has been a space where we’ve grown both individually and collectively, where we’ve strengthened bonds that enable us to fight back and challenge the established order. It has been and still is the place where we continue to gather strength to resist the eviction.
Aware of the diversity of lived experiences, of diverse bodies and abilities, and with the aim of continuing to question and destroy systems of domination, we call for solidarity in all its forms.
Firm in our commitment to the anarchist struggle and knowing that actions have consequences, we understand that Ca l’Espina is much more than just a building, and that the collective extends far beyond those who live within its walls. They have chosen to come for us, and we will respond. We will not let this eviction go unpunished, and we will help grow our collective imagination through direct action. [Read More]

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The Hague: Valkenboskerk resquatted and violently evicted

By: fawda - September 2nd, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

Vacant for years

Since Sunday 31 August, the Valkenboskerk in The Hague on the Loosduinsekade has been squatted. A group of residents has taken possession of the building, which had been vacant for more than 7 years. In 2018, neighboring residents already managed to enforce with the municipality that it will not be demolished. In 2020, 070 Vastgoed bought the building and made plans to turn it into luxury apartments. Which is completely unaffordable for the residents in the neighborhood. But 070 Vastgoed is unfortunately known as an elitist real estate company. They only make hotels or luxury apartments. With which they make the capital more and more unaffordable for the people who live.

However, after 5 years of being owned by 070 Vastgoed, the church is still empty, to the great frustration of the local residents, even if the church alone will be preserved. Windows have been smashed, fire alarms go off often, there are often burglaries, the garden is completely overgrown and the building is increasingly being covered by graffiti. The only thing the neighbors of the church see is decay and an unreachable owner who does not want to talk to them. [Read More]

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Brussels: new eviction postponed for the Collectif Zone Neutre

By: fawda - August 27th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

On Wednesday, August 27, the mobilization paid off! The police and the bailiff were unable to pass the tight ranks of people present in front of the building at Square de l’Aviation in Anderlecht. Thank you and congratulations to all. It’s a victory in a long battle for dignity and housing: we remain mobilized for the future. The day before, the mayor had refused to take part in preventing this eviction on the pretext that a complaint had been filed by the owner for non-execution of police orders, even though the hearing has been postponed to November 3 and there has therefore been no judgment.

Nordin Amrabat involved in eviction of 70 people in Brussels

Collective Zone Neutre, a collective of 70 people in Brussels, has been threatened with another eviction on August 27. The Dutch owners of the building refuse to enter into talks with the collective to reach an agreement. Brussels is therefore reaching out to the Netherlands for international solidarity to put pressure on the footballer Nordin Amrabat, the business partner of the company FMM Holding BV. [Read More]

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Amsterdam: Transvaalstraat 141A & Binnen Bantammerstraat 3-1 squatted!

By: fawda - August 17th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

On the 13th August, two buildings in Amsterdam were revealed to have been taken back: Transvaalstraat 141A & Binnen Bantammerstraat 3-1. These buildings are owned by the hypocritical robbers of the people, ‘social housing’ company Ymere.

We are done facing precariousness, poverty, and exploitation every day while the landlords and social housing companies hold thousands of empty homes and make profit from our misery. We took the matter in our own hands and decided to house ourselves.

Ymere previously listed the house on Binnen Bantammerstraat for sale. Social housing companies gentrify the city by selling their properties in the center and using the money for buildings on the fringes of Amsterdam. This pushes the working class further and further away from the heart of the city and helps turn the center into a playground for yuppies and tourists. You can find more information about this and actions taken against it at https://niettekoop.org. [Read More]

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Zagreb: Anarcha queer day of the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair at Postaja

By: fawda - August 5th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

Vrrrane in collaboration with the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair collective are organizing at the Postaja squat on September 6, 2025, the first day of the official bookfair as a forum to address specifically anarcha-queer topics! It will be held mostly in English. Similar event already took place at Postaja in september 2024.

Attempts at reenvisioning our future as a place of solidarity, mutual aid, equity and degrowth require questioning existing power structures. Addressing social inequities is at the very heart of criticizing authoritarian structures and without it, we can never enable egalitarian and equitable relationships that are key to any anarchist vision.

The patriarchy continues to contribute to the marginalization, exploitation and violent repercussions against us who do not obey the strictly defined, submissive roles surrounding the figure of the dominant cis-male. Even in our anarchist collectives and communities, these power structures are reproduced and too often go unchallenged and unquestioned. This enables violence and further subjugation/marginalization/domination and poses a direct obstacle to our visions. [Read More]

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Nijmegen: former H&M on Broerstraat squatted

By: fawda - July 29th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

update july 29 – The examining magistrate decided Jantien squatters can remain in the building. Owner Rob Hendriks was unsuccessful in kicking the squatters out.

Nijmegen – On Tuesday 8 July, Jantien, the squatters collective based in Nijmegen squatted the building at Broerstraat 16. After two and a half years of vacancy, the building owned by Ton Hendriks has finally been taken into the hands of the housing revolt. Jantien, in collaboration with De Steeg, wants to make way for a homeless walk-in that can be established there at least twice a week.

The next few weeks we will work hard to make the dilapidated building livable and usable for their purposes and housing for those who need it. We want to make this place available as an accessible “Third Space” for everyone who wants to be welcome there.

There is twice as much homelessness today as forty years ago, during the height of the squatters’ movement and the waiting lists for social housing are now also twice as high as then. Social services and education are being cut back and there is less and less room for collective expression in our society. [Read More]

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Athens: No squatter in prison! Campaign for the court expenses of Koukaki Squats Community

By: fawda - July 26th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

It was March 2017 when we first opened the door of 45 Matrozou str. and began repairing the building so that it could house our struggles, desires, needs and bodies. And when these, a few months later, could no longer fit in one building we opened two more buildings that were rotting abandoned in the neighborhood of Koukaki, 21 Panaitoliou str. and the Blue House (3 Arvali str.). This is how Koukaki Squats Community was created in the center of Athens.

From then until 2020, Koukaki Squats Community had been a political community that combined anarchist struggle with communal life. The doors of its houses were open for those who wished to fight back against state violence and injustice, for people who needed shelter or wished to use its public structures, for those who sought a collective way of life. It was also an open political and social space accessible to the inhabitants of one of the most gentrified neighborhoods in Athens. [Read More]

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Belo Horizonte: Casa Encantada South American Tour

By: fawda - July 16th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

We are thrilled to announce that in the months of July and August, members of Kasa Invisível will once again cross the imaginary lines of nation-states to expand connections, forge new bonds, and strengthen existing ones—this time in the Southern Cone!

The goal of this tour is to travel through Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil to launch the book Casa Encantada – A Portrait of the Struggle for Housing in Belo Horizonte, recently translated into Spanish thanks to the voluntary efforts of comrades in three countries.

Beyond the book, we will bring debates, graphic art, and shared learning, exchanging notes and experiences with local movements and collectives about the differences and similarities in our local struggles. Additionally, we will explore ways to strengthen mutual support among social centers and anti-capitalist occupations across Latin America. [Read More]

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