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