On Wednesday 1 July, after a pause of one month, the state evicted several living places of people on the move in Calais near the hospital center.
The next day, Thursday 2 July, around 10 vans of police – along with officials from the prefecture and outsourced “cleaning” and demolition companies (Delbende) – returned. Whilst two excavators were destroying one of the living site, some people surrounded and climbed onto one of them to try to stop it / slow it down. [Read More]
WAR TIMES
On Tuesday, June 16, in Rome and other cities, new police raids hit the anarchist movement, with seven arrest warrants against as many comrades, 5 preventive detentions in prison and 2 house arrests with electronic bracelets, searches throughout Italy (including La Vampa in Naples), and the eviction of the Bencivenga Occupato social center in Rome. The main charge is the now classic “association for terrorist purposes” (270-bis). In addition, two comrades were arrested for the new crime of “terrorism by words” for possession of some pamphlets found during the searches.
Although the information disclosed by the media is scarcer and incomplete than usual, it is clear that the investigation revolves around a number of acts of sabotage of railway lines, in particular the one carried out on February 14 on the Rome-Florence line, against the Cortina 2026 War Olympics. [Read More]
The police in Amsterdam, together with the magistrate, successfully managed to circumvent the right to fair trial, and evicted a squat in Amsterdam north.
Housing crisis
We are in the middle of a housing crisis. Everyone’s working their asses off, and nobody has money for a house. A studio apartment in the city costs 2k per month. A house for less than half a million you won’t even find in a village in Groningen where the ground shakes occasionally.
Social housing cooperatives, with the task of housing the population, still opt for the sale of social rent apartments. Overdue maintenance is order of the day. Homelessness is rising, just like the number of people living below the poverty line. Of course, it’s a time to crack down on the squatters again. [Read More]
The Espacio Katarcis, squatted in 2019, was evicted on May 12, 2026. Jimena Améstic (El Arrebato) talks to Claudia involved in Katarcis.
“Above the sorrow and anger, we had the solidarity of all the people”
The community space located in the building of the former Arcis University was closed this Tuesday after a court order in favor of the company Tecnored. Cultural workshops were given in the space, and shortly before they were expelled, a solidarity dining room, a radio and an editorial space had been set up, activities that brought together more than 200 people weekly in the Almendral neighborhood.
Members of the initiative spoke with El Arrebato, and assured that despite the fact that “the community is saddened”, the “desire to sustain and continue” with the project persists.
Valparaíso lost again. This Tuesday, May 12, the special forces of the Carabineros evicted the Espacio Katarcis, a self-managed center that had been squatted in 2019. In the middle of the street were the implements of a space that in August would celebrate seven years delivering culture to the Almendral neighborhood. [Read More]
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]
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]
Night of police charges in Bilbao. Five people were arrested when they tried to prevent the eviction of Etxarri II gaztetxe, which took place today (April 4) at 11am. At 19h a demonstration is called from the Amezola park.
After more than a decade of activity and five years of resistance, the Ertzaintza (autonomous police force for the Basque Country) has proceeded to the eviction of the Etxarri II gaztetxe, located in the Bilbao neighborhood of Errekalde. They did so after the massive demonstration, supported by numerous groups from the metropolitan area of Bilbao, which on March 28 went through the streets of the neighborhood demanding the end of the eviction process that would activate an urban development operation -in which Amenabar, one of the construction companies that has worked most closely with the Basque Government, participates- that will replace the industrial buildings where the gaztetxe is located with luxury housing. [Read More]
At dawn this morning – July 9, 2024 – the former occupied wash-house in Corso Benedetto Brin 21 in Turin was evicted and subjected to a search. During the eviction, various materials were seized for investigative purposes.
Bombastic media fanfares communicate the eviction of the “den of violent anarchists” and the politicians on duty congratulate themselves on the umpteenth eviction, while workers at the service of the police and the municipality wall up and smash the building, giving it back to abandonment and oblivion.
The Ex Lavatoio was occupied on December 9, 2022 as part of a citizen mobilization in response to the eviction of the Edera Squat. In those months, many considered it essential to claim and practice the instrument of occupation – certainly not that of municipal bargaining and co-planning tables – so, in solidarity with the comrades of the Edera, three occupations were born one after the other (Ex-Lavatoio occupato, Polisportiva Occupata Iris Versari, Circolo Occupato La Crepa). [Read More]
Takland is a year older and we celebrate! With resistance in the form of squatting a new building. After a year full of action, discussion, movies and parties, this new addition to the alley will be the revolutionary art of Amsterdam again. The new squatted building (ground floor Rokin 104) on the corner of Taksteeg/Rokin had been vacant for years and has the same owner (Axel P Nielsen BV) as the already squatted Taksteeg 6.
The police didn’t want to hear anything about it, after promising at 19:00 on Friday that they will not evict, they came later in the evening at 23:30 during our festival with 10 riot cops vans, dog brigade, popo on horses and BraTra to show their teeth. An illegal eviction in Amsterdam, which has not happened since the squatting of the Waldeck Pyrmonkade in January 2022. [Read More]
This year’s demo Rave voor de Rafelranden took place on 11 May. The building on the Biltstraat was squatted for the demo. The same night, the police evicted the squat and arrested 5 people.
On Saturday afternoon it was announced that the building at Biltstraat 31 in Utrecht has been squatted. The old hotel has been vacant since 2020 and is waiting for new permits that have been refused by the municipality. The squatters have chosen to announce the action today, as they drew attention to the frayed edges of the city today by means of a street rave through the center. With this action, the squatters would like to add a cultural space to the city. [Read More]
The eviction of the Rosa Nera squat and the Rectorate squat on april 1st 2024 demonstrated Belvedere’s intentions to go ahead with its plans to turn the complex into a luxury hotel. According to a document that surfaced, the company has received the green light to start sampling work at the sites of the squat, despite the stated opposition of bodies, unions and associations of the city, even the city council itself, to the hotelization on Kastelli hill.
According to confirmed information, this work will start on Monday, April 8, by private crews that have been hired, most likely by Belvedere. We call on all struggling sections of the society of Chania not to leave Belvedere and its plans on a green branch and to block any work that is going to be done, starting Monday.
We call for mobilization on wednesday, april 10, at 7 a.m., outside the squat. [Read More]
❌🏠❗️ This week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, three foreclosure evictions of entire families were supposed to take place in Tbilisi, Georgia. On Tuesday January 23rd, a huge number of people showed up to stop the eviction but also an unexpected amount of cops who were extremely violent against the protestors. 18 people were arrested, two of them are now facing trial and up to 3-6 years in jail. Others have been fined to an average of 2000 GEL (approx. 700 €) which is a lot of money in Georgia. What’s new is that the story was widely spread in the media, and due to this on Wednesday there was even more resistance and the bailiff was blocked from entering the building. The eviction on Friday was stopped by our comrades, who had already managed to suspend this eviction in December 2023. [Read More]
