Enric Duran, Catalan anticapitalist organizer who announced last year that he had 'robbed' nearly half a million euros as an act of financial civil disobedience, recently returned to Spain to promote anticapitalist organizing. On Tuesday, March 17th he was arrested on fraud charges.

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"We Can Live Without Capitalism"

On September 17, 2008, as the governments of the world scrambled to prevent the collapse of the global financial system, Enric Duran, a Catalan anticapitalist organizer, announced a daring act of 'financial civil disobedience.' Over the past two years Duran had borrowed 492,000 euros from 40 different banks with no intention of paying the money back. As a protest of the global financial system and the inherently exploitative nature of commercial banks, Duran distributed the money to various anticapitalist social movements in Spain and used it to publish 200,000 copies of a magazine called Crisis that detailed critiques of the commercial banking system. He was dubbed 'Robin Hood of the Banks' by the media.

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