To reflect on education and citizenship, we have selected a singular experience related to the fight for housing. In this specific case, the struggle is linked to an endeavour for maintaining traditional ways of life in the place where people were born and raised. Our theoretical framework is related to several authors, such as Freire, Gramsci, Negri, Park, etc. We reflect on the right to the city and try to establish connections between a liberating adult education, within a Freirean perspective and the participative work done by citizens to recover their own culture and history. We present a case study focused on the struggle of a group of people to continue living in their own neighbourhood, resisting the pressure of gentifrication processes. Deriving from this, we try to reflect on the possibilities of adult education linking educational and cultural work and to consider education as a battlefield to disrupt Imperial domination--characterised today by the learning paradigm based on a competency framework--following the paths of Williams' works.