Gerrard Winstanley: “To make the Earth a Common Treasury”

from Freedom News (10/09/2026)


Marking 350 years since the death of the English revolutionary Digger (1609-1676)

Robert Graham, Illustrations: Clifford Harper

During the peak of Gerrard Winstanley’s political activity in 1649-1650, he championed an early form of anarchist communism using a radical Protestant vernacular. Winstanley denounced coercive government (“government by the sword”) and private property (“mine and thine”), and through non-violent direct action sought to create egalitarian communities where everything would be held in common.

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Repression and Resistance in Russia: An Overview

from the CrimethInc. collective (09/09/2026)


Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin’s government has suppressed opposition in ways that aspiring autocrats like Donald Trump are still striving to emulate. Yet despite widespread repression, there is still resistance in Russia, and as Putin’s model proliferates, people everywhere around the world stand to benefit from learning about it. Likewise, we should support Russian anarchist and anti-war prisoners, both because resistance within Russia offers hope for the eventual end of war and totalitarianism and because, should autocrats consolidate power where we live, we will wish for people to support us, as well.

The following text is based on a presentation Antti Rautiainen offered at the Baltic Anarchist Book Fair in Tartu on May 30, 2026. You can watch a video of the presentation here or listen to it via Spotify. The above photograph shows the consequences of an action carried out by the anarchist Ruslan Sidiki.

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The US government attacks internet privacy

The email and website provider Autistici/Noblog.org has been designated as a “global terrorist threat”.

from lundimatin #531, 02/09/2026


Founded in 2001, Autistici/Inventati is a volunteer and free provider of email, websites, mailing lists, blogs, and communication tools focused on privacy for users who prefer not to rely on corporate platforms. According to the U.S. State Department, Autistici/Inventati hosts “roughly 16,000 mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 ‘blogs’” on its custom-built platform. On August 26, 2026, the U.S. government designated the Italian collective as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” citing its “far-left” politics.

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Nation of Terrorists

Matthew Wolfe on the use of domestic terrorism charges against activists, from the Earth Liberation Front to Prairieland.

from Verso Books Blog 03/09/2026


Late on the night of July 4, 2025, a group of eleven protesters walked up to the outside of the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas and began setting off fireworks. Prairieland serves as a holding facility for immigrants recently detained by ICE. Conditions inside the facility were widely reported to be inhumane. One woman, arrested on a warrant for an open traffic ticket, told the Washington Post that, due to a lack of beds, she was forced to sleep on a thin mat over a concrete floor. Another recalled being denied medical care and that the facility’s filthy tap water had “things swimming in it.” The fireworks, as the participants later testified, were part of a “noise demonstration,” a spectacle intended to show solidarity with detainees and bring attention to the Trump administration’s architecture of mass deportation. Hearing the booms, a confused jail staffer called 911, and local law enforcement was dispatched to the scene. Shortly after they arrived, a police lieutenant, spotting a man in a neon green gaiter holding a rifle, leveled his handgun and ordered the suspect to the ground. The man, a former Marine reservist, fired several shots in the direction of the officer, hitting him in the left shoulder above the clavicle.

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For Tony Gatlif (1948-2026)

I took up the cinema which can tell about the others, about those who have no right of voice and are unable to speak. This kind of cinema is not aimed at tempting or diverting somebody from the world.

Tony Gatlif (from an interview for the Ukranian newspaper The Day)

I don’t believe art changes reality, … That was never the case. What art can do is scratch a memory – and that’s important.

Amos Gitai, The Guardian, 04/09/2026

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Giorgio Agamben: Give us this day our daily nothingness

Ilya Repin, Student Nihilist, 1883

In a book published in Leipzig in October 1844 by Otto Wigand, a previously unknown type of man appears, one who to contemporaries seemed inadmissible and unheard, but who has since become perfectly familiar to us: the man who, as we read on the first and last pages, “I have based my affair on nothing.”[1], that is, a being in whom the dissolution of all faith and all values ??has reached its extreme form. He is certainly the first and unsurpassed nihilist, but it must be noted that the nihilism in question here has today become the normal condition of humanity. The book is titled The Ego and Its Property, author Max Stirner.

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The Forbidden Deleuze: For Palestine, Against Genocide

by Pasquale Liguori

from the Ill Will collective 24/08/2026


Other languages: Español

It’s a genocide, but one in which physical extermination remains subordinated to geographical evacuation.

Gilles Deleuze

It is worth returning to some fundamental writings1 that Gilles Deleuze devoted to the Palestinian question between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. These writings have remained comparatively under-discussed within the much larger reception of Deleuze, but they are not marginal to his thought; they are moments in which his philosophy confronts real politics in a particularly direct way, where the philosophy of immanence — or, more precisely, a conception of real life refractory to any transcendence of state, law, or morality — confronts the concrete history of colonization, and where the ontology of becoming is tested against the criminal machinery of the state. In these texts one finds, perhaps more than elsewhere, an anticipatory diagnosis of our present condition: a genocidal continuity that runs through Palestine from 1948 to today, and that so-called humanitarian pauses or ceasefires serve only to mask.

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Ghassan Salhab: And the world falls

from lundimatin #530, 25/08/2026


To put an end to images? To put an end to words?
To put an end to representations, all representation, all testimony?

Or should I say more precisely: to put an end to “our” words, “our” images, “our” representations, “our” testimonies? To leave to the powers that be, governments, and other levers of domination of all kinds, all screens, every format, every scale, every distribution channel, to give them all the space, niches included, so that their sweet talking patter, their propaganda, and their all-out lobbying can spread unhindered across their channels, their platforms, their front pages, their apps, their globalisation, so that they can occupy every surface. To leave them to their boundless blindness.

Let us stop producing images. Let us stop playing on their terrain.

Sounds, on the other hand, let us seize them, keep them, propagate them, so that they escape, so that they elude them. So that they maybe nothing more than endless cries, howls, everywhere, from everywhere, so that they may be blood that flows and courses through the veins of this damned earth.

Ghassan Salhab

Painting and title of a recent, stunning exhibition in Beirut by Samir Khaddaj

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Solidarity Collectives Ukraine: Four years of anti-authoritarian resistance

Four years ago, Solidarity Collectives were formed.

We didn’t know how long the war would last and couldn’t have imagined the sheer scale of the work we would undertake. Over the years, we have organized around fifty humanitarian trips, held dozens of fundraisers, sent thousands of parcels to the fighters, endured sleepless nights, faced challenges and suffered losses, made new friends and experienced moments that will stay with us forever.

We are convinced that mutual aid, support, and resistance are the very foundations on which any collective struggle relies. All this is thanks to the people who are ready to support one another and their tireless voluntary work.

That is precisely why, for four years now, we have been helping anti-authoritarian soldiers and those affected by the war, building international connections and highlighting the anti-authoritarian movement’s contribution to the Ukrainian resistance against russian imperialism.

This video is, first and foremost, a thank you to each and every one of you who stood by us, donated, volunteered, shared our message, supported us and placed your trust in us.
And above all, it is a tribute to the soldiers, who fight every day not only for our safety, but also for our very right to exist, to organize, and to defend left-wing and anti-authoritarian values.

Thank you for continuing the struggle for the past four years.

There is still much work ahead, but we are grateful that we are walking this path together.


For more on the work of the Solidarity Collectives, visit their webpage here. For an interview with a member of the Solidarity Collectives (in french), by the lundimatin collective (27/01/2026), click here.

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Solidarity Without Submission: Nestor, Ulysses, Ukraine and the Glory of Heroes

Charles-Philippe Larivière, Achilles presenting the prize of Wisdom to Nestor 

How can anarchists fight for national resistance without condoning nationalism?

by Roderick McMillan


Greek epics make us all Cassandras, the scenes are set in divine prophecy, but their acts are only understood in hindsight, the most human tragedy.

“National consciousness, which is not nationalism, is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.”

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth[1]

Huliaipol, Zaporozhye oblast, Ukraine in 2022. Nestor Makhno sits behind sandbags holding the blue-and-yellow flag of Ukraine, while soldiers take selfies with him.

Not the man, but a concrete statue and, as with most things in Ukraine, the statue has suffered in the war. Russian shelling decapitated it in May 2024.[2] Even with the strained resources of war, and in a city whose population shrunk from 19,000 to – by one estimate – 500, it was repaired, returned and reinforced. Ukrainian, and Ukrainian-aligned soldiers have posed beside it, some carrying flags or wearing patches inspired by Makhno and his Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.

An anarchist who fought against states standing guard over one.

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