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Dublin: Lessons from the Barricade Inn squatted social centre

The Barricade Inn was a squatted social centre in the centre of Dublin. During the peak of its activity over the summer of 2015 hundreds of people were involved in putting on events in the space that thousands of people attended. In this audio we talk to three WSM members who were involved in opening […]


Dublin: Barricade Inn, Trials and Tribulations

Two weeks ago, at the judge’s discretion, the high court issued an injunction to make the occupation of the Barricade Inn illegal, coming into effect from tomorrow. It seems this may bring an end to one of the most ambitious projects the anarchist squatter movement has yet attempted. A radical, anti-capitalist social centre in the […]


Dublin: The Barricade Inn, a new squatted anarchist social center

In the heart of Dublin, a new collective has occupied an old building, previously known as Neary’s hotel, to create a new radical, autonomous social centre and infoshop for our city. A few hundred metres down the road from the Garden of Remembrance — a place many of us know as the starting point for […]


Berlin (Germany): Barricades and stones for the anniversary of Liebig34 eviction

Housing is not a commodity! Two apartments in the Liebig14 expropriated “We will not surrender. And even if they drag us out of our homes. We will return. And we will take back what is taken from us.” Words from the Liebig34 on October 9, 2020, at 04:00 am. Exactly three years ago today, on […]


Berlin: House squatted, burning cars and barricades…

http://directactionde.blogspot.com/2009/06/house-squattedburning-cars-and.html Berlin, 18 of June 2009 Claim on the house squatting: „House squatting in Friedrichshain” – Actionweeks June 2009 During the action days for freespaces in Berlin we squatted since a few hours a house in Berlin – Friedrichshain. We want to remain in the empty building located in the Voigtstr. corner Dolzigerstr. Our squatting […]


Dublin: New social centre

Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust – A revival in the Dublin squatter scene So here we are, in our very own, “Her Lady Margaret Thatcher Memorial Library,” drinking a can and celebrating that the cunt’s still dead. We’re writing this article as we are happy to finally announce ‘Sandwitch Gaff’ to the world! (squat.net). […]


Dublin: Masked thugs evict Frederick Street

Masked Garda threatening people with batons in the aftermath of the violent eviction carried out by thugs in Dublin last night. Pepper spray, dogs and batons were deployed, there were 5 or 6 arrests and four housing campaigners required hosptial visits from injuries received in the course of the eviction of the Frederick St occupation […]


Dublin: Video tour of previous Dublin eviction by injunction sites on the morning of Apollo House hearing

This video was shot on the morning of the Apollo House injunction hearing at the High Court, 21st December. As well as footage from outside the courts on our way there we had earlier visited the sites of other occupied buildings evicted in the last 20 months. We discovered all of them were still vacant […]


Dublin: An attempt to liberate a vacant council flat for a homeless mother and her children

Myself and some comrades were approached by a young mother from Coolock that recently became homeless. The woman and her children became homeless a few weeks previous. While her kids are in school during the day the mother either walks the streets or calls into friends or family member’s homes. When school has ended for […]


Dublin: Self organising and the city – Squatting panel at Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2015

What are the challenges and possibilities of popular self-organisation to reclaim our lives, our homes and our cities? At this years Dublin anarchist bookfair Jenny and Zoe looked at recent occupations in Dublin, including the Grangegorman Squat in Smithfield where resistance to eviction is ongoing


Ireland: What Housing Crisis? This is a capitalist crisis

Ours is a society in which, in every field, one group of people makes decisions, exercise control, limits choices, while the great majority have to accept these decisions, submit to this control and act within the limits of these externally imposed choices. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of housing: one of […]


Montreuil: Anarcha, queer anarcha-feminist festival. Let’s defend the places we live in!

Montreuil (France) – Anarcha, march 3rd-5th 2023, la Baudrière: https://squ.at/r/9aly In France, on the 31st of March, it is the end of the winter break which protect squat and autonomous places. Here in Montreuil and elsewhere, housing squat and political mobilisation squats will be evictable on this date. In Île-de-France, it is the case for […]