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There are many ways to describe the phenomenon of social centres which are leftwing radical spaces, existing worldwide in most of Western Europe and North America. There needs to be a disambiguator to put this phenomenon apart from related descriptors such as community centres, far-right social centres and the umbrella term social centre, which currently redirects to community centre. Projects and the secondary sources use terms such as self-managed social centre, autonomous space, anarchist social centre, libertarian social centre, squatted social centre, social centre, centro sociale occupato autogestito, SC etc etc It is hard to see the common name here becuase of different local contexts and thus for the wikipedia article we need a term which is not original research and which describes the phenomenon adequately. Self-managed social centre is a much better descriptive term than autonomous social centre (or squatted/aanrchist/libertarian) since *all* these centres share the quality of being self-managed, whereas autonomous is vague (autonomous from what?) and not used universally .. personally I think "autonomous" is a descriptor better applied to zones, as at Permanent autonomous zone. Self-managed social center would also be a much better parent to the two already exisiting offshoot articles "Self-managed social centres in Italy" and "Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom". I leave it at that here and put further discussion as a comment.

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The important thing here is what do as the reliable secondary sources do. Autonomous social center is occasionally used, but self-managed social center is much more often to be found, even within the sources already on the article. Those sources break down as follows:


 * Atton, Chris "The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s": "squatted anarchist centres"
 * Atton, Chris (2003). "Infoshops in the Shadow of the State": unable to check
 * Atton, Chris (2010). Alternative Media: term not used
 * Casaglia, Anna (2016). "Territories of Struggle: Social Centres in Northern Italy Opposing Mega-Events": "self-managed Social Centres"
 * Downing, John D. H. (2000). "Italy: Three Decades of Radical Media": unable to check
 * Franks, Benjamin; Kinna, Ruth (December 20, 2014). "Contemporary British Anarchism". Revue LISA. 12 (8). doi:10.4000/lisa.7128 : talks of "social centres" and "squatted social centres","autonomous spaces – squats, camps, social centres"
 * Klein, Naomi (June 8, 2001). "Squatters in White Overalls": talks of "social centres"
 * Lacey, Anita (August 2005). "Networked Communities: Social Centers and Activist Spaces in Contemporary Britain" : "self-managed social centers"
 * Neumann, Richard (2003). Sixties Legacy: A History of the Public Alternative Schools Movement, 1967–2001:
 * Noterman, Elsa; Pusey, Andre (2012). "Inside, Outside, and on the Edge of the Academy: Experiments in Radical Pedagogies": "autonomous social center", "self-managed social centers"
 * Piazza, Gianni (2016). "Squatting Social Centres in a Sicilian City: Liberated Spaces and Urban Protest Actors":
 * Pusey, Andre (2010). "Social Centres and the New Cooperativism of the Common": "self-managed social centres" mentioned twice
 * Shantz, Jeff (2010). "Anarchy Goes to School: The Anarchist Free Skool":
 * Shantz, Jeff (2011). "Heterotopias of Toronto: The Anarchist Free Space and Who's Emma?"
 * Shantz, Jeffery (2012). "Spaces of Learning: The Anarchist Free Skool": term not used
 * Trapese Collective (2007). Do It Yourself: A handbook for changing our world: has a chapter entitled "How to set up a self-managed social centre"

So out of 16 sources, XXX don't use the term, XXX use "self-managed social center" and only one uses "autonomous social centre"

As I mentioned in the previous move request which didn't attract much attention, self-managed social centre is a term used by scholars working in the field and not just scholars wokring on the Italian situation. these would include:


 * Martinez & Bernados - The Occupation of Squares and the Squatting of Buildings: Lessons From the Convergence of Two Social Movements
 * Chiara Milan Beyond Europe: Alternative visions of Europe amongst young activists in self-managed spaces in Italy
 * Mudu P (2014) "Self-managed social centers and the right to urban space" In I Clough Marinaro and B Thomassen (eds) Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City (pp 246–264). Bloomington: Indiana University Press

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 * Centro Sociale Leoncavallo done
 * https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndikalistiskt_Forum
 * La Ingobernable done
 * La Tabacalera de Lavapiés
 * Ladronka
 * Vloek
 * https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro_Social_Seco
 * https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oficina_de_okupación
 * https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Casika