Author Archives: Patri

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. As previously seen, the far-right is a heterogeneous, constantly changing conglomerate made up of movements of different natures (neofascism, Alt-right, Nouvelle Droite, Old Right, Q-Anon, neo-patriotism, ecofascism, far-right accelerationism, etc.) that share a rejection of and hostility towards liberal democracy, a deep-seated ultranationalism, and an anti-establishment … 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. Far-right is a word whose etymological origin is formed by the prefix “ultra” (from the Latin “ultra-“, meaning ‘beyond’, ‘extreme’) and the root “right” (from the Latin “-directa”, meaning ‘right’, ‘straight’). In the French National Constituent Assembly during the revolutionary process of 1789, the conservative deputies … Read more

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire for thirteen seconds against a peaceful protest against the US invasion of Cambodia at Kent State University. The so-called Kent State massacre resulted in four students dead and nine others injured. The massacre took place under the presidency of Richard Nixon and triggered a wave of student strikes that forced the closure of hundreds of universities across the country. Popular outrage was immediate, and the social and artistic response was … Read more

On August 8, 1974, 51 years ago today, the President of the United States of America, Richard Nixon, announced in a televised address from the Oval Office his resignation from office, preempting the impeachment process. He was the first president in that country’s history to take that step, and the reason was the scandal known as Watergate—the famous case of political espionage that brought to the fore the workings of what was supposed to be a democracy and shook the … Read more

While numerous countries and regions sit today in Hiroshima’s Peace Park to attend the commemorative ceremony of the 81st anniversary of the atomic bomb blast, nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals. The record attendance, exceeding last year’s 120 delegations, stands in stark contrast to the paralysis of international disarmament. The “hibakusha”, survivors whose ranks dwindle each year, attend a ceremony where pacifist symbolism clashes with the reality of an international system that invests billions in the lucrative business of … Read more

Sabotage is understood as the deliberate destruction of material goods or the intentional reduction of work performance with the purpose of harming a company, an economic system, or a power structure. The origin of the word, which is related to a strike of railway workers in France in the year 1910, who blocked the train tracks, already points to its link with labor struggle. It was also used by the Luddites, textile workers from Nottingham, in campaigns against the machinery … Read more

In 2020, against a backdrop of health crisis and growing social inequality, the independent studio “Pixel Pushers Union 512” released Tonight We Riot. This video game, described by its creators as «an unapologetically socialist game», offers a revolutionary fantasy in which the working class organises to overthrow the capitalist system. The work, presented as a side‑scrolling “beat ’em up” with pixel art aesthetics, emerged as a response to the saturation of conservative narratives in the gaming industry. Its arrival on … Read more

Without a doubt, the European law known as Chat Control that is being imposed in the EU represents a very serious violation of the right to privacy, among other things. It is above all dangerous because of what it implies, the intentions behind it, and because it sets a legal precedent that goes against the very liberal democracy that the European institutions profess, turning the EU into an authoritarian democracy; with Chat Control, voting would cease to be anonymous and … Read more

When a society does not want to see the wound, the best thing is to film the pus. Mathieu Kassovitz, at only 27 years old, did that in 1995: he took a black-and-white camera and went into the heart of the Parisian “banlieues” to give viewers an uncomfortable image, that of a France that did not recognise itself in its own outskirts. The film was not born from an aesthetic whim, but from the outrage over the death of Makomé … Read more

The struggle for decent housing has been a constant feature of Spain’s recent history. From the earliest protests against evictions to the current demonstrations against property speculation, neighbourhood and citizens’ movements have marked key milestones in the fight for this fundamental right. One of the largest mobilisations took place in 1931, when the CNT called a rent strike in Barcelona in response to the mass evictions caused by the 1929 crisis. Around 100,000 families joined the strike for eight months, … Read more