Category Archives: News blog

Azad: The Revolution in Myanmar

From Ill Will (13/09/2024). The following is an interview with Azad, an American currently fighting for the revolution in Myanmar. Conducted via email over several weeks between August and September of 2024, Azad’s responses cover a wide range of issues … Continue reading

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Anti-war statement

From avtonom.org (29/08/2024). We have stated from the very start that the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is an imperialist aggression of the Russian state. That is still true. Our position on the war … Continue reading

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Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross

From avtonom.org and Freedom News (30/08/2024). For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the … Continue reading

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Spain: Supreme Court confirms CNT unionists’ prison sentences

From Freedom News (18/07/2024). The Suiza 6 face three and a half years each for protesting outside their workplace Union branches across Spain have denounced the Supreme Court’s confirmation of prison sentences against six bakery workers for picketing. The workers … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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