(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #246 - Urban Focus: The city is ours! (fr, it, pt)

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #246 - Urban Focus:
The city is ours! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

Caracas to Paris via the Southeast Asian and the Andalusian plain of the Guadalquivir, in 
urban or rural areas, almost no surface of the globe can escape the clutches of 
capitalism. ---- Economic restructuring the system operates since the 1970s is not without 
consequences for land: large and imposed unnecessary projects (GPII) dramatic increase in 
property prices and property in all major cities, massive displacement of people under the 
guise of urban renewal, gentrification, scarcity of arable land... ---- All these evils 
one purpose: the absorption of surplus capital to invest in a context of general crisis. 
As long as the market, based on the sacrosanct right of property, constitute the compass 
of the land, it will be difficult to escape.

But with the deadly grip of capitalism at bay, and while more than 50% of the world 
population today is urban (three quarters in 2050), reactions exist and even amplify. Long 
neglected by organizations of the left and the labor movement, urban struggles back today 
with strength and legitimacy to the front of the stage.

Whether the opening of places to live self, organizing rent strikes, the Democratic hand 
recovery of certain neighborhoods or whole towns, the denunciation of urban law 
enforcement or contesting sumptuary development projects and delusional, possible forms of 
action are multiple and multifaceted as are the urban spaces.

But all these struggles and claims converge in the same direction: the challenge to the 
capitalist production of space and claim a "right to the city", a right to "his" city, 
released segregation of business and domination.

Contents of the file:

? Faced with the housing crisis: abolish the real estate market Gentrification: how to 
resist? Toulouse: The Crea, a grain of sand in the machine gentrify Paris: the 
inadequately housed force the blockade Montpellier: Luttopia, Act II Venezuela: 
Bienvenidos to Piedrita, earth-popular power against France: Alternative Democracy, the 
effect Saillans Ile-de-France: Grand Paris for the Grand Capital The burden of 
metropolization A ZAD to crystallize the resistors? History: 1922 , Mexico City rose 
against the owners Conclusion: Urban Struggles toward new life

Dossier coordinated by Julien (AL Alsace)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Dossier-La-ville-est-a-nous