Negres Tempestes (organization)

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Negres Tempestes
Founded17 June 2005 (2005-06-17)
Purpose Anarcho-independentism
Location
Region
Catalan Countries
Website www.negrestempestes.cat
Estelada variant used by Negres Tempestes Estelada anarquista.svg
Estelada variant used by Negres Tempestes

Negres Tempestes (English: Black Storms) is an anarchist organisation based in the Catalan Countries. [1] The group defends the principle of independence and self-determination, but opposes the creation of new statist institutions, being highly critical of the notion that independence necessitates the "attainment of a state, with the authoritarianism it implies". [2] The organisation describes itself as opposed to "the state as a basis of authority, repression and economic exploitation" as well as "dogma, states or borders", while participating in struggles in defence of the Catalan language and culture. [2]

The collective presented themselves to the public on 17 June 2005, after four years of encounters between various individuals in the Black Bloc of the annual 11th of September demonstrations. [3] It gathers in and focuses much of its activity on the Can Vies Self-Managed Social Center, in the Sants district. [4] [5]

Negres Tempestes participated in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and general strike, together with other Catalan anarchist groups. [6]

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References

  1. de Vargas Golarons, Ricard; Montesinos, Joan A.; Canela, Josep M.; Palomas, Joan; Casares, Joan; Cabra, Enric (2007). Anarquisme i alliberament nacional [Anarchism and National Liberation] (in Catalan). Barcelona: Virus Editorial. ISBN   978-84-96044-90-6. OCLC   804399854.
  2. 1 2 "Negres Tempestes Presentation". Negres Tempestes. 20 February 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  3. Solà, Eduard (November 2008). ""Volem qüestionar dogmes que creiem fora de lloc"" ["We want to question the dogmas that we believe out of place"]. Revista Catalunya (in Catalan). No. 102. Barcelona: General Confederation of Labor. p. 28. OCLC   807795868.
  4. Martínez, Guillem (26 May 2016). "Dos anys després del desallotjament de Can Vies, el centre s'ha reconstruït però el futur és incert" [Two years after the eviction of Can Vies, the center has been rebuilt, but the future is uncertain]. BTV (in Catalan). Barcelona: City Council of Barcelona . Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  5. Vilaseca, Stephen Luis (2013). Barcelonan Okupas: Squatter Power!. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 51–52. ISBN   9781611476293.
  6. Gutiérrez, José A.; Martí Font, Jordi (2023). "October 2017 in Catalonia: The anarchists and the procés". Nations and Nationalism. 29 (1): 219–220. doi: 10.1111/nana.12896 . ISSN   1354-5078.