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]
Bilbao: eviction of the gaztetxe Etxarri II in Errekalde
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]
Cáceres: days of resistance and support in the face of the threat of eviction of the CSOA La Muela
Days of resistance from 21 to 25 November. We will have debates, workshops, open mic, jam session, reflections on the future of space, as well as the collaboration of sister spaces such as the CSOA La Algarroba Negra. We encourage you all to participate and show support for CSOA La Muela!
The rehabilitated space that is now the CSOA La Muela began to be self-managed at the beginning of 2024, although the collective project had begun a year earlier. After an exhaustive search we found a plot in the Ribera del Marco, a place that, like many other plots in the area, was expropriated by the City Council of Cáceres more than a decade ago. [Read More]
Barcelona: the police install a camera to spy on a squat in the district of Gràcia
A camera hidden in a dark box on the roof of a restaurant monitored the activity of a squat house in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, at least since December 22 when it was detected. As disseminated by the group Ègida -Defensa Collectiva Anarquista, the video surveillance team focused directly on the door of the squat, which is why they rule out that it is the restaurant’s security system.
Neighborhood witnesses have told La Directa that during the last weeks they had observed the presence of “strange” individuals and vehicles parked with people inside the house all day: “I saw them in front of the house, I am convinced that they were plainclothes policemen,” says a neighbor. One of the managers of the restaurant, where the state security forces had placed the camera, told this media outlet that they have “nothing to say”. [Read More]
Barcelona: El Kubo, La Ruina and Estudi 9 social centers defend themselves against three simultaneous evictions
The courts of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Barcelona have aligned themselves with the Catalan police to proceed today, November 30, with the construction work of three buildings belonging to Sareb and an investment company based in Luxembourg.
In a joint statement issued by El Kubo y La Ruina from Barcelona’s Bonanova and by Estudi 9 from the old town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, it is announced that this Thursday, November 30, “our houses are trenches”… They consider that the suspension of the previous eviction date of the Colomense building was an “attempt to divide our struggle”, but they advance that “it will be expensive for them, we know how to play our own strategies”. [Read More]
Barcelona: La Ruïna and el Kubo will not die
We will turn our house into a battlefield, el Kubo and the Ruïna will not fall. See you on November 30 at 5:30 a.m. in Uri Caballero square, Vallcarca metro station in Barcelona. If el Kubo and La Ruïna fall, the neighborhood will burn down. OKUPA Y RESISTE!
Statement made in February 2023, La Ruïna and el Kubo threatened with eviction:
Our squats are trenches.
Here we go, on March 23 they are going to try to evict us. In 2016, an office building was squatted for the first time in the Sant Gervasi neighbourhood and we called it El Kubo. The Kubo has been the home and place of passage of more than a hundred people in the more than 6 years that it has been in existence. This has been the home and trench of many people. It has been an oasis of resistance in the bourgeois quarter of Barcelona for many years and this has not been easy. “Squat and resist” defines the history of the Kubo very well. During all these years we have faced two evictions and the constant siege of extreme right-wing groups, capitalist press and political parties. And despite the hostilities we have reoccupied and resisted this house all this time. [Read More]
Barcelona: statement from La Ruïna & El Kubo, fascism is not discussed, it is destroyed
El Kubo and CSO La Ruïna are two liberated buildings in La Bonanova (an upper class neighbourhood of Barcelona), which with much insistence and after two re-occupations have resisted for the last seven and four years respectively, being home to many people and hosting hundreds of activities.
After the last eviction date of El Kubo, dictated for March 25th, which we managed to suspend, and after a month of resistance where we received daily attacks, on Tuesday May 2nd we decided to make an antifascist call to defend both spaces from the harassment of political parties disguised as citizen’s response.
We understand that getting to the gates of La Ruïna in a militarized neighborhood has already been a triumph. First of all, we would like to thank all of you who came to support us. We still need your presence and that solidarity continues to spread. [Read More]
Seville: CSOA la Leona illegally evicted by force and without court order
After several months of collective work and some very intense weeks preparing the space, on Thursday May 19th it was finally time to make it public and open the space to anyone who wanted to get closer and get involved. Many people came to show their support and joy. There was finally a Self-Managed Squatted Social Center in Seville, after so many years.
We didn’t lose our cool when the police approached, as we were prepared to face the situation, with about a hundred people nearby, with the assembly well organised and united, including a mediator and a lawyer. We told the police that the building had been occupied by us for weeks, so they would need a court order to evict us, which they obviously didn’t have. [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]
Castilla-La Mancha: Fraguas Revive. The rural squat wins its first battle temporarily against the demolition of the village
Thanks to a document officially issued by the Criminal Court No. 1 of Guadalajara on April 29th, the Fraguas inhabitants learned that the demolition of the village is temporarily suspended. It is a change of judicial criteria that has been achieved by the struggle and the legal battle that its inhabitants have been defending for years and that temporarily stops the execution of the sentence of demolition of the village.
A project of eight years of life for the recovery of the rural space.
For those who do not know the trajectory of this community project of Fraguas, this rural squatting initiative was launched in 2013 in a small abandoned hamlet in the Sierra Norte of the province of Guadalajara. This village, which dates back to the 12th century, was evicted during the Franco dictatorship in 1968 for the monoculture of pine and its subsequent sale to the timber industry. A group of young people decided last decade to rebuild some houses that were left half standing, after the Spanish military used the area as a practice range for shooting and explosives in the 1990s. Their project is real and they have achieved their initial objectives, since they were able to rebuild several houses in the village, they have also experienced a great level of collective self-sufficiency in coexistence and self-management of natural resources. They have a vegetable garden and a greenhouse built with their own hands, a small open-air chicken coop, bees in a couple of dozen hives, and as energy self-sufficiency they have about thirty photovoltaic solar panels. [Read More]
Madrid: La Ingobernable opens a Social Rights Office in the center of the city
The collective that squatted the building at 39 Gobernador St. announced this morning that they have occupied a building at 5 Cruz St. to “resist in common and conquer new rights”.
With the slogan “Social rights to change everything”, the collective of La Ingobernable has started this new project that they have called Office of Social Rights (ODS, Oficina de Derechos Sociales). In a communiqué they explain that it will serve to “resist in common and conquer new rights” because they cannot “wait any longer” and point out that the current crisis of covid19 “hits us with other pandemics: hunger lines, distrust, fascism, precariousness, racism, speculation, loneliness, pessimism and fear,” they claim.
The ODS will have seven axes that respond to seven social urgencies: the right to housing, the right to food, the right to protest, labor precariousness, transfeminisms and dissidence, basic income and community health. It is this context of social emergency, which has prompted the collective to raise the slogan “Social rights to change everything”, with a commitment to “resist in common” and open this space where “develop, protect and fight for social rights”. [Read More]
Barcelona: rally in support of arrested comrades on 27 February
Tuesday 20 april 2021, 9:00
Meeting point: in front of the Audiencia Provincial, Passeig de Lluís Companys 14-16, Barcelona
For more than 50 days 7 of the 8 comrades arrested last February 27th in the center of Barcelona have been imprisoned. They were arrested during one of the last demonstrations that began in the name of freedom of expression and that continued for 15 days assuming more and more the voice of the general dissent towards the situation we are living. An suffocating reality characterized by an institutional violence that does not stop increasing every day, that leaves the majority of the population without a future and that absolves and defends those who are really responsible: police, institutions, politicians and the royal family. It is a disturbing authoritarian drift that is taking place today throughout the world and that is concealed under a strictly formal subsistence of the democratic institutional framework that serves as an alibi for a despotic government.
Following the arrests, violent police searches took place in 2 squatted houses in Maresme, with the intention of demonstrating an alleged non-existent criminal organization. [Read More]
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