Historian Kristin Ross named the zad’s lighthouse as an act of “Communal Luxury” — a phrase from the manifesto of the radical Federation of Artists of the Paris Commune of 1871, which proposed that luxury was not the private accumulation of stuff, but the flourishing of beauty in all shared spaces. As the geographer Élisée Reclus wrote, “if the painters and sculptors were free, there would be no need for them to shut themselves up in Salons.”

The illegal lighthouse against an airport and its world — labo.zone

We need radical spaces and that’s why we bring them to life. We need to push the boundaries of resistance and protest beyond hierarchically organized and dogmatically non-violent civil disobedience that only appeals to those in power, towards a diversity of tactics, direct action, self-organization and - importantly – the possibility of attack. We also seek to connect rebels across Scandinavia and (northern) Europe, to support each other in living a life in resistance and solidarity.

A Letter from the Abyss — Rupture Press

Anarchism is not a concept that can be locked up in a word like a gravestone. It is not a political theory. It is a way of conceiving life, and life, young or old as we may be, old people or children, is not something definitive: it is a stake we must play day after day. When we wake up in the morning and put our feet on the ground we must have a good reason for getting up, if we don’t it makes no difference whether we are anarchists or not. We might as well stay in bed and sleep.

Compost the Colony — Alexander Dunlap

If we are honest about it, we can reject the false neutralism, the cynical selflessness of “ally politics,” and recognize that we have to make choices about who we want to support, who we want to fight alongside, and these choices will arise from our own subjectivity, our own need to struggle, our own vision of freedom.

Compost the Colony — Alexander Dunlap

Governance systems, their politics and their relationship with the land and ecosystems demand realistic and respectful engagement within Indigenous territories. The aim is total liberation, which can only be done by ourselves and with each other, not for people. This depends entirely on where one lives, the relationships they negotiate and choose to create. This approach opens the timeless issue of organization.

The Direction of Ecological Insurrections — Alexander Dunlap

In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.

Subcomandante Marcos

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Emma Goldman

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.

Emma Goldman

I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.

Emma Goldman, in “Arrest in Chicago of Emma Goldman, Preacher of Anarchy”, The San Francisco Call (11 September 1901)

Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities.

Emma Goldman

The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs.

Emma Goldman