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France: Thousands protest ‘mega-basin’ reservoir expansion
The soulevements de la terre continue … From Freedom News (23/07/2024). Struggle against hoarding of water by agro-industry sees five days of action, culminating in a 10,000-strong march on the commercial port of La Rochelle The French environmentalist movement Soulevements … Continue reading
The Rat: A Russian anarchist’s story of torture, imprisonment, and compassion
From Freedom News (24/07/2024). Ilya Shakursky was condemned to 16 years on trumped-up terrorism charges Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens with the line, “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, … Continue reading
What Does Putin Want?
From Freedom News (11/07/2024) and Avtonom.org (11/07/2024). The Russian autocrat is not crazy, war is simply a necessity for his power and economic system Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin outlined five goals for his war: Ukraine’s … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-militarism, Antti Rautiainen, russia, ukraine
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France’s elections and the evolution of the National Rally party
From monde nouveau (03/07/2024) and Freedom News (08/07/2024). René Berthier: Answer to an Australian Comrade Question : One thing I’m interested in is the evolution of Rassemblement National itself. There are parts of the “catastrophist” left that want to depict it … Continue reading
France: For an anti-fascist uprising
From the Soulèvements de la terre, in France … 1 – The neo-fascist danger is real All over Europe and the world, neo-fascist parties are seizing power. Everywhere in society their xenophobic and authoritarian ideas are spreading. However, there is … Continue reading
Radical Reprint: The Ludlow Strike
From Freedom News (16/06/2024) In June 1914 much of that month’s edition of Freedom was given over to a lengthy analysis in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre, one of the most infamous strikebreaking incidents in United States history. The mass killing of striking coal … Continue reading
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Tagged Ludlow Massacre, strikes, working class struggle
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For John Burnside (1955-2024)
For John Burnside, “anarchist” poet and writer, who died this last month of May. … a true anarchist … [does] … not need a glorious leader, or leaders, to save us from the nightmare. What we need, each of us, … Continue reading
The disaster has a name: Capitalism
From the Antimídia collective of Brazil, a short video documentary report-essay on the floods of early May this year, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the popular collective responses to the catastrophe, more often than not in … Continue reading
Freedom and Joy with Uma Kiwe
From Ill Will (19/05/2024) … What we are going to do is to plant ourselves in a new time. This is the stage that the Nasa people have entered with the liberation of Mother Earth. It is the Earth that … Continue reading
Why Stop at Removing Biden?
From the CrimethInc. Collective (07/11/2024). The Center Cannot Hold It would seem like a heavy-handed metaphor if it weren’t our actual reality. A doddering patriarch, representing the collapsing centrist political project, refuses to step aside even as it becomes certain … Continue reading →