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“Located in the historic city center, the once old former Barrio Chino had become a succulent real estate treat waiting to be carved up. To the North, a legion of civilians holed up in museums, universities and centers of contemporary culture waiting until the police finished clearing the streets of the destitute. To the South, the deputies of the tourism industry unloaded the hordes of the idle from the modern cruise ships anchored in the port. It was the start of an all-out siege, a war that fed on the city's streetwalkers. The battle was waged one house at a time...”

Between 2000 and 2003, PROCIVESA, the property development company that is restructuring various areas in the old part of the city, expropriated various housing blocks in Barcelona?s La Ribera neighbourhood at a low price. And then demolished them. Local residents named the new empty space that remained where their houses used to be the "Forat de la Vergonya" (the Hole of Shame), as a way of denouncing a situation that they considered degrading for a number of reasons: the public authorities? abandonment of an area that was already problematic, the interminable construction work, the loss of rights of people relocated to new apartments, etc.

Presentation after the screening of the film "The War Game" by Peter Watkins with Rafael Poch, journalist and writer specialized in international politics. The discussion was organized by Falconetti Peña and Simona Malatesta, as part of the research project "Art, war and Insubmissión".

Autonomía Obrera is a documentary about the autonomous struggles in 1970s Spain, a story about the other workers' movement, a rewriting of the post-Franco transition. Against historical memory, political memory.