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]
Barcelona: solidarity with Ca l’Espina
Ca l’Espina, a squatted block in the middle of the posh neighborhood of Gracia and resisting it for 2 years, is in danger of eviction. On Monday, the deadline that puts the building at risk began.
After 8 trials, exorbitant expenses, the eviction of a flat, its reoccupation and the eviction of the social centre, we are still here and we are not going to leave.
Comrades, we once again acclaim solidarity as a weapon and tool to combat capital. Because if they evict a block, we squat 100. We encourage you to take decentralised actions so that the foundations and structures of this rotten system continue to shake.
Against tourism, speculation, gentrification and the precariousness of life. Let the streets tremble, for an abolition of private property and a collectivization of housing. [Read More]
Barcelona: Ca l’Espina still squatted despite the Mossos attempted to evict them
The group that previously squatted Ca la Trava and Ka la Kastanya denounces that the police operation that tried to evict the social center on Carrer d’Asturies was carried out without a court order.
At 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the Mossos d’Esquadra, made up of riot vans, occupied the Gràcia district of Barcelona. The objective was to evict Ca l’Espina, a squatted social center located at number 12 Asturias Street. “The police vans went from Fontana to Lesseps,” explains the group that occupied the building in January 2020. “There has been a totally disproportionate militarization of the neighborhood,” they add.
The apartment block in the centre of the city is made up of four floors of housing and a room on the ground floor. When the members of the project learned that the police wanted to break into Ca l’Espina, they blocked the access that goes from the premises to the houses in which about fifteen people live today. [Read More]
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