Category Archives: News blog

Victor Artola: Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation

From Ill Will (14/06/2025) As we entered the fifth month of the second Trump era, the explosive social movements that marked the close of the 2010s seemed like a distant memory. The fifth anniversary of the burning of the Third … Continue reading

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Fire and Ice: Lessons from the Battle of Los Angeles

An anonymous text, published at Ill Will (14/06/2025) A printable zine version can be downloaded here. I think I’ll stay on this earthquake fault near this still-active volcano in this armed fortress facing a dying ocean & covered w/dirt while … Continue reading

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Don’t Let LA Stand Alone: A Message to the Gathering Resistance

From It’s going down, 13/06/2025 Over the past week, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Los Angeles, fighting to defend their neighborhoods and family members from ICE, facing off with the National Guard to demand those imprisoned … Continue reading

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Ukraine: On the ground with Solidarity Collectives

From Freedom News (09/05/2025) Their work in supporting anti-authoritarian armed resistance against Russian occupation has spilled over to directing aid to civilians living on the front Josie Ó Súileabháin “If people are tired of this war, tell them to come … Continue reading

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Ron Sakolsky: Out of the fog

From Fifth Estate #416, Spring 2025 On Jan. 1, 2024, the city of San Francisco sent New Year’s greetings to its beleaguered citizens with the cheery news that a suicide net had been installed under the Golden Gate Bridge thanks … Continue reading

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For Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025)

What I most want my pictures to do is to lead to reflection and then action. The revolution only comes through evolution. Sebastião Salgado (British Journal of Photography, 24/05/2025) “I photographed the world”, Sebastião Salgado once said. And we could … Continue reading

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How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

From Freedom News (11/04/2025) Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state by Blade Runner The UK is expanding its use of predictive policing and surveillance, framing it as a response to crime, protest, and public … Continue reading

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New Order?

From Side Car/New Left Review (10/04/2025) New Order? Steve Maher & Scott Aquanno On 2 April, Donald Trump announced the imposition of sweeping tariffs on countries across the world, hitting allies and enemies alike with massive trade barriers, in what amounted to … Continue reading

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Disposable

From Side Car/New Left Review (11/04/2025) Disposable JoAnn Wypijewski I’ve seen disposable razors on mountaintops outside San Diego. I’ve seen plaid flannel shirts caught on the branches of low trees, trembling in the breeze near Bisbee. I’ve watched a pink … Continue reading

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Plenums in the post-Yugoslav space

We publish an article by Yavor Tarinski, published in the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (23/03/2025) and generously passed onto to us by the author, about recent protests in various Balkan countries and the centrality of peoples “assemblies” or “plenums” … Continue reading

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