...] And in that context began to circulate the mysterious reference of that novel of some young people who occupied houses, which constituted, without the help of anyone, autonomous groups, who collectively reappropriated wealth by slipping into cinemas, reducing electricity and water bills and imposing a "fair rent" on landlords. That they fought against the extension of illegal and precarious work through proletarian rounds, exercising a direct counter-power where no legality, not that of the unions, had the least intention of imposing itself. That they lived liberation here and now, expressing the collective degrees of freedom and enjoyment of those who were capable at all times, communicating them to the rest of the city. Then those young people were dragged by the spiral of repression and the assassination of state, of the armed response and terrorism. The novel ended with the c...read more
