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Activism, Antoni Aguiló, Decolonialism, Feminism, Interview, Post-Capitalism, Translation

Necropolitics, Social Fascism and Algorithmic Colonialism
Essay, Feminism, Marian Díez, New Economy, Post-Capitalism, Translation

Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
Activism, Articles, Essay, Featured, Luis Navarro, Translation

We protect you from yourselves: police, oppression and the rule of law
calimaq, Essay, Featured, P2P/Commons, Post-Capitalism

Are the Digital Commons condemned to become “Capital Commons”?
Essay, Featured, Maïa Dereva, P2P/Commons, Post-Capitalism, Translation

Summer of Commoning: A Tour of French Communities and Projects
Activism, Amador Fernández-Savater, Featured, Interview, John Holloway, Post-Capitalism, Translation

Cracking Capitalism vs. The State Option
Featured, P2P/Commons, Primavera De Filippi, Transcription

Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet?
Activism, Essay, Featured, Movimiento por la Democracia, Post-Capitalism, Translation

A Charter for Democracy
Comix, David de Ugarte, Featured, Post-Capitalism, Translation

Phyles and the new communalism

Activism, Decolonialism, Eugenia Urrere, Translation

Where there’s resistance, there’s hope: Recovering linguistic diversity in Latin America

July 1, 2021·0 comments

When a language dies, ancestral knowledge is lost and the culture begins to disappear. Our human capacity for creativity becomes restricted as we increasingly adopt more homogenous points of view. We begin to lose faculties such as tolerance and the practice finding harmony within diversity. Eventually, we begin to deteriorate as a society.

Activism, Decolonialism, Feminism, Interview, Meritxell Rigol

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”

April 8, 2021·0 comments

What better argument to justify these pockets of poverty than to say that they’re poor because they want to be that way? Because that’s just how they are. That’s just how they want to be. Anti-Roma racism is actually very useful for justifying that capitalism works. I mean, it leaves the system intact. It’s not that the system couldn’t eradicate poverty, it’s not that there isn’t enough work for everyone; it’s just that the poor are poor because they want to be.

GT BLOG

In search of unicorn-like native English-speaking translator and editor!

March 11, 2021·0 comments

Hi! We’re Guerrilla Translation, a non-hierarchical translation collective run according to principles of feminist economics, mutual care and political solidarity.

Daniel Montáñez, Decolonialism, Juan Vicente Iborra, Translation, Uncategorized

Colonial commons and the decolonisation of the left

November 24, 2020·0 comments

As we know, the left has not been exempt from colonialism throughout its history. It has generally remained loyal to the modern Western idea of a historical continuity that aims to showcase Western communities as the most “advanced” in the world. The idea of “colonial commons” proposes that the new commons left is still dragging around this old problem inherited from the old left.

Environment, Essay, Marina Aizen, Translation

A New Pandemic Age for a Devastated Planet

October 3, 2020·0 comments

Bats, mosquitos, rats and pangolins are not to be blamed for epidemics. The fault lies with us and what we do with the ecosystems that these animals live in—how we manipulate and bring these animals into a new, artificial environment. That is the real cause of the coronavirus, something that will probably cost us a global recession. In other words, mutilating ecosystems comes with a very steep price.

Activism, Antoni Aguiló, Decolonialism, Feminism, Interview, Post-Capitalism, Translation

Necropolitics, Social Fascism and Algorithmic Colonialism

July 17, 2020·2 comments

Eurocentrism is like a second skin, encasing our bodies so closely that we hardly notice it. It’s a supremacist ideology shaped by beliefs, attitudes and practices, which have long since turned into destructive customs.

Activism, Decolonialism, Interview, María Sanz Domínguez, New Economy, Nonty Charity Sabic, P2P/Commons, Post-Capitalism, Translation, Video

“Economics is not just about money; it’s about our holistic well-being as a planet”

January 31, 2020·0 comments

“How a person lives and interacts with others and with nature is called ubuntu. This indigenous knowledge reminds us that we are humans thanks to mother nature. She belongs to us and we belong to her. But we have forgotten who we are and that we have a deep connection to nature.”

Activism, Decolonialism, Featured, Moha Gerehou, Translation

The Media Prophecy that Must be Fulfilled

November 1, 2019·0 comments

The gravity of the problem is that today, when it comes to migrants and racialized people, media space is made available only when we’re the subjects of research, but not to present us as the owners of our own political identity.

Activism, Decolonialism, Environment, Feminism, Patricia Simón, Translation

Women leading the fight against plundering

October 3, 2019·0 comments

The proliferation of hydroelectric dams is one of the ecosocial conflicts – or new wars – creating the most victims around the world. In Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Ecuador, people who oppose these dams in defense of the commons are criminalised as ‘terrorists’, persecuted and even murdered.

Environment, Pablo Manzano Baena, Translation

GMOs: What we got wrong

September 26, 2019·0 comments

A more critical argument in societies with a lack of environmental awareness such as ours is that of food sovereignty. Since genetically modified organisms are always developed by megacorporations, the farmers lose control over the means of production and end up doomed to poverty and subject to market fluctuations in order to acquire the subsistence goods. This can bring periods of prosperity, but also of malnutrition, poverty and migration to impoverished slums. Only the richest survive.

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Timothy McKeon·GT BLOG, Timothy McKeon·September 23, 2021·0 comments

Berlin Hierophant Meeting 2021

The Hierophant Meeting was intended to help us reassess our position, reflect on our strengths and weaknesses and collectively create an updated vision of where we want Guerrilla Translation to be. With a few changes on the horizon, it couldn’t have been better timed.
Timothy McKeon·GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, Timothy McKeon·September 18, 2021·0 comments

Industry translation is a capitalist racket. Guerrilla Translation is the ethical choice.

It’s difficult to hold on to your ideals in any industry that is trying to thrive and expand within the capitalist system. Job competitiveness will ensure that wages are kept low as workers are forced to undercut each other until the work no longer provides a living wage. Meanwhile, the revenue generated by the industry is invested in technology that will eventually make the workers obsolete. The translation industry is no different.
Stacco·Essay, Feminism, GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, New Economy·March 13, 2020·0 comments

Tales of a DisCO, Straight from the Dancefloor

DisCOs are a commons-oriented, feminist, cooperative way for people to work together. Find out how we use them in Guerrilla Translation.
Stacco·Feminism, GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, New Economy, P2P/Commons, Post-Capitalism, Uncategorized·November 18, 2019·0 comments

You Say Decentralized, I Say Potato: The DisCO Manifesto is live and ready to download

DisCO stands for Distributed Cooperative Organization, a way for people to work and create value together that’s cooperative, creates commons and is based on feminist economic principles.
Timothy McKeon·GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, New Economy, Timothy McKeon·August 16, 2019·0 comments

Let Me Handbook That For You: A User’s Guide To Open Value Cooperativism

The GT Handbook is a document that welcomes the reader into the world of Guerrilla Translation with a narrative, colourful approach. It is aimed at those who have joined or are interested in joining the collective, are researching our model or have an interest in a practical understanding of Open Value Cooperativism and/or Distributed Cooperative Organizations (DisCOs).
Timothy McKeon·GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, Timothy McKeon·August 9, 2019·0 comments

Strong Roots: Translating as a Commons

Dissecting Bollier & Helfrich’s “Free, Fair and Alive” has been a chance to reaffirm our choice to do things differently in Guerrilla Translation and translate like Commoners.
Stacco·GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, New Economy, P2P/Commons, Post-Capitalism, Short Films, Video·July 23, 2019·0 comments

Rage Against the Machine and Science Friction: a video introduction to DisCOs

A keynote presentation on DisCOs. DisCO stands for “Distributed Cooperative Organization” and it’s a friendly, yet challenging, critique of DisCOs older cousin, the Decentralised Autonomous Organization or DAO.
Timothy McKeon·GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, Timothy McKeon·March 17, 2019·0 comments

“¡Que comience el matriarcado!” an update on all things Guerrilla Translation

By the Quarterly Evaluation in January, coinciding with the end of the new members’ first stage of the Dating Phase, a fantastic rapport and overwhelmingly positive (cyber)atmosphere had been established within the group. It was clear that the team had to gather in person to solidify relationships, continue establishing group culture and discuss important issues facing the collective. Simply put, we needed a chance to hang out and bond, and a grant awarded by Guerrilla Foundation allowed us to do just that.
Stacco·Essay, GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, New Economy, P2P/Commons·September 22, 2018·0 comments

The Open Coop Governance Model in Guerrilla Translation: an Overview

Guerrilla Translation’s governance/economic model is unique in that it incorporates Open Cooperativism, Contributive Accounting and Feminist Economics.
Stacco·Activism, Essay, Feminism, GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, New Economy, P2P/Commons·August 22, 2018·1 comment

Punk Elegance: How Guerrilla Translation reimagined itself for Open Cooperativism

Read how Guerrilla Translation and its extended family reimagined itself as care-oriented Distributed Cooperative Organization (DCO).
Georgina Reparado·Activism, GT BLOG, P2P/Commons, Translation·October 21, 2015·0 comments

GT’s bits proudly hosted at the Server of Trayectorias Libres

Our revamped website brought along another major change: our bits are since then hosted at the Servidor Libre de Trayectorias Tecnológicas, managed by Hacklab Cochabamba via Codigo Sur and with the support of Hivos.
Stacco·Activism, Documentaries, Video, ZEMOS98·May 14, 2015·0 comments

Municipal Recipes

“Municipal Recipes”, a short documentary which Guerrilla Translation subtitled for the 2015 Zemos98 Festival, features a small group of activists involved in emerging post 15-M municipal initiatives sharing their experiences and expectations over lunch.
Stacco·Activism, GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, P2P/Commons, Short Films·February 15, 2015·0 comments

Welcome Back, and Looking Forward

Guerrilla Translation co-founder Ann Marie Utratel describes Guerrilla Translation’s journey in the last year and gives an overview of our new websites and our plans for 2015.
guerrillatranslation·GT BLOG, Interview, Michel Bauwens, P2P/Commons, Translation·November 20, 2014·0 comments

Possible Utopias and the need for a Social Knowledge Economy

This interview with P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens was originally conducted in Spanish, with consecutive translation by our friend Andrés Delgado. For our blog, We’ve translated the questions in text and kept Michel’s audio answers in English.
guerrillatranslation·Enric Duran, GT BLOG, Michel Bauwens, Post-Capitalism·September 19, 2014·0 comments

Cooperativa Integral Catalana as a living model of open cooperativism

Enric Duran of the Catalan Integrated Cooperative has taken the time to comment on Michel Bauwens’ recent article on Open

November 20, 2014·1 comment

Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet?

“In traditional contracts, each party is free to decide whether to fulfill the contract, whether to only partially implement the contract (by leaving out some obligations), or whether to breach the contract (and pay instead for damages or compensation). By contrast, in the case of smart contracts, parties have no choice but to implement the contract, because the contract has been encoded, written into the code. It cannot be breached unless one actually manages to break into the code.”
November 18, 2014·0 comments
Fairness and the Commons, an interview with Enric Duran
January 28, 2014·3 comments
Towards a Material Commons
January 13, 2014·1 comment
Venture Communism and Technological Miscommunication

April 8, 2021·0 comments

“Anti-Roma racism is useful for justifying the capitalist system”

What better argument to justify these pockets of poverty than to say that they’re poor because they want to be that way? Because that’s just how they are. That’s just how they want to be. Anti-Roma racism is actually very useful for justifying that capitalism works. I mean, it leaves the system intact. It’s not that the system couldn’t eradicate poverty, it’s not that there isn’t enough work for everyone; it’s just that the poor are poor because they want to be.
July 17, 2020·2 comments
Necropolitics, Social Fascism and Algorithmic Colonialism
January 31, 2020·0 comments
“Economics is not just about money; it’s about our holistic well-being as a planet”
July 26, 2018·0 comments
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes

Stacco·Activism, Documentaries, Video, ZEMOS98·May 14, 2015·0 comments

Municipal Recipes

“Municipal Recipes”, a short documentary which Guerrilla Translation subtitled for the 2015 Zemos98 Festival, features a small group of activists involved in emerging post 15-M municipal initiatives sharing their experiences and expectations over lunch.
guerrillatranslation·DIWO coop, GT BLOG, Interview, P2P/Commons, Short Films, Video·June 3, 2014·2 comments

DIWO Co-op: Do it With Others, and make a co-op while you’re at it

DIWO Co-op is a worker-owned co-op located in Madrid, Spain. They’re a sister-co-op to Guerrilla Translation, and they’ve continually delighted us
guerrillatranslation·GT BLOG, Guerrilla Translation, Short Films, Video·April 21, 2014·0 comments

Vote for Guerrilla Translation in the 2014 OuiShare Awards

Guerrilla Translation is proud to be among the nominees for the 2014 Ouishare Awards. If you’re not already familiar, Ouishare