Sqek (squatting everywhere kollective) is a network of radical activists and researchers from diverse social and political movements from around the world. The primary aim of the collective is to produce reliable and fine-grained knowledge about squatters movement as a public resource, especially for squatters and activists. Critical engagement, transdisciplinarity and comparative approaches are the bases of the project. Sqek holds yearly meetings which have thus far taken place in Madrid, Milano, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, København, Roma and New York, Rotterdam, Catania and Praha. More info can be found at sqek.squat.net

Instead of an IntroductionSqEK-Kollective

Voices of Resistance - About the
Refugee Movement in Kreuzberg (Berlin)
Napuli Paul Langa

You Can't Evict a Movement - From the
Rise of the Refugee Movement in Germany
to the Practice of Squatting
Colectivo Hinundzurück (Berlin)

Overflowing the walls.
The squatting is on the paths.
Elisabeth Lorenzi

Hidden Histories of Resistance -
The Diverse Heritages
of Squatting in England
needlecollective

Squatting in Denmark
Frisk Flugt

A history of urban squatting in Slovenia
Tina Steiger

Istanbul - Beyond Gezi
some comrades

"Zad News" - The occupation of
Notre-Dame-des-Landes narrated
through its weekly newspaper
Margot Verdier

The Revenge against the Commons
zadforever

The economy of the squatters:
How squatters live with less money
and suffer less from the crisis
Claudio Catteneo

Squatting in Prague
ArnoSt Novák and Jan Trnka

Interview with a Seattle Squatter
mujinga

Ireland's Autonomous Zones and Collectives
Freda Hughes

The hidden history of squatting in Ireland
Alan MacSimoin

Resisting evictions - Squatting in Rio de
Janeiro as an alternative for housing
Juliana Canedo and Julia Caminha

"Das ist unser Haus ..." - Squatting in
Germany from 1970 to the present (2018)
azozomox

A Short History of Australian Squatting
Iain McIntyre

Squatting in Greece:
An open case with closed doors
Nick Souzas

Penal Archipelagoes, Incarcerated
Immigrants and Squats
Sutapa Chattopadhyay

"You can't evict an idea" -
The criminalisation of the squatting
movement in the Netherlands
Deanna Dadusc

Le occupazioni per la casa e per
i centri sociali in Italia - Squatting for
housing and Social Centers in Italy
Eliseo Fucolti

Not only liberated spaces:
Italian Social Centres as Social
Movement and Protest Actors
Gianni Piazza

Squatting in France: Poverty, Housing
Movement and Counterculture
Thomas Aguilera, Florence Bouillon,
Baptiste Colin and Cécile Péchu

Squatting in the Wake of the
Economic Crisis in Spain: The Right
to Housing as a Social Movement
"Sí se puede, pero no quieren"
Julia Lledin

A Short Talk on Squatting
in the Spanish State
Miguel Martinez

Never Rest in Peace! The Eviction
and Resistance of Liebig 14 (Berlin)
Lucrezia Lennert

A fast look at squatting in Rotterdam
AMADOK

Some recent mainstream media
representations of squatting in Barcelona
Group Against Criminalization

Social Centers in Madrid
Alan W. Moore

Refugees' Struggles in Athens:
Voices from City Plaza
Refugee Accommodation Space
City Plaza

Squatting in Europe aims to move beyond the conventional understandings of squatting, investigating its history in Europe over the past four decades.

While waves of repression against squatters seems to spread across Europe, attacking and shutting down it s remaining squatting strongholds and it s historical spaces of rebellion, some squatted social centres manage to withstand meanwhile and new occupied zones arise - both are successfully defended through public mobilization and widespread solidarity, alongside with militant action. At the same time squatting has seen a rebirth as a tool of radical praxis in movements fighting against the rising number of evictions and foreclosures during the financial crisis or facing the policies of racist europe and open space for refugees, migrants and people of colour. The collection of essays, first-hand accounts and photographs in this book do not offer an over-arching story on where the squatters movement is heading. Instead the book provides glimpses into a diverse and multi-faceted movement, with accounts from local struggles, experiences of repression and stories of the collective forms of life which grow out of squatted space from various cities and countries throughout europe, including accounts from Australia and the U.S.

Editors:

Sqek (squatting europe kollective) is a network of radical activists and researchers from diverse social and political movements from around the world. The primary aim of the collective is to produce reliable and fine-grained knowledge about squatters movement as a public resource, especially for squatters and activists. Critical engagement, transdisciplinarity and comparative approaches are the bases of the project. Sqek holds yearly meetings which have thus far taken place in Madrid, Milano, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, København, Roma and New York. More info can be found at sqek.squat.net