Author Archives: Patri

In a few hours we begin the first strike in 14 years. This is no ordinary strike. It is the first major joint call in fourteen years to place housing at the centre of the political and social struggle. In recent decades housing has ceased to be a right and become a business. Rents above 1,500 euros a month have practically taken over the market, while the price of free-market housing reached 2,355 euros per square metre in the second … Read more

On 5 October 1988, the dictator Augusto Pinochet submitted his continuation in power to a plebiscite designed to legitimise his regime. The Chilean citizenry, after fifteen years without elections, responded with historic turnout and a result that opened the door to democracy. The military regime had made the 1980 Constitution its framework for institutionalisation. The twenty-seventh transitional provision established that, at the end of the presidential term, the Military Junta would propose a single candidate for a new eight-year mandate, … Read more

Between 1870 and 1914, the industrial powers of Europe multiplied their colonial possessions amid economic crisis and growing competition. Behind the civilising rhetoric, three material factors explain this process: the search for cheap raw materials, the need for markets for a production that exceeded domestic consumption, and the pressure to place capital in peripheral economies with higher returns. Modern imperialist expansion was neither a spontaneous nor an exclusively political phenomenon. The British economist J. A. Hobson published Imperialism: A Study … Read more

Pending definitive verification, the results of the midterm elections in the United States represent a crushing and unmitigated defeat for Donald Trump and his reactionary agenda. The Democratic conquest of the House of Representatives and the Senate is not a simple institutional adjustment, but the snapshot of a massive popular response against a Government clearly marked by brutality, both domestic and in foreign policy, corruption and an anti-democratic temperament with philo-fascist overtones. While the result should not be assumed to … Read more

Hours before the start of the midterm elections on 3 November, US society is going through a moment of maximum tension. President Donald Trump, who returned to the White House after winning the 2024 elections with the promise of a new era of prosperity and bonanza for the United States, now faces a scenario in which his approval ratings are collapsing and his own party is beginning to show cracks. What was meant to be a referendum on his presidential … Read more

Ten years ago, in 2016, the song “No hay tanto pan”, composed by Silvia Pérez Cruz for the film “Cerca de tu casa”, was released. The film deals with evictions following the 2008 financial crisis. Today, just a few days after Maricarmen’s eviction, at a time when the housing crisis is becoming increasingly unsustainable, the song continues to describe a reality that remains unchanged. The song’s message encapsulates the indignation at a system that profits from the basic need for … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. Below are six blocks of guidelines for discursively confronting the far-right. The first three blocks of guidelines (those related to frameworks and language, those related to argumentative and emotional strategy, as well as warnings and mistakes to avoid) belong to the realm of one’s own development, … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. From this perspective, it can be affirmed that common sense is not an indicator of intelligence or rationality, but an indicator of belonging. People do not believe what they believe because it is true, but because their group teaches them to believe it, and because believing … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. A society’s common sense is not a neutral reality unrelated to power relations, but rather a space of dispute where what is considered normal, acceptable, or inevitable is defined. Deep political changes are usually preceded by transformations in collective perception, in which certain ideas manage to … Read more

This text is part of the contents of the first book by ECOAR))) and will go on sale at the end of this year, 2026. Winning the Narrative! Manual for Combating the Far-Right Discourse. Perhaps one of the questions we most often ask ourselves when reflecting on social periods in which the far-right grows is: “How can it be that society allows and even supports a process in which the far-right gains power if it is going to go against … Read more