The Indigenous Struggles in Brazil (video)
From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026)
The worsening crises threatening the world have left many people paralysed and powerless in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. But among Indigenous peoples, many groups are leading the way: they are resorting to direct action to resist the destruction wrought by states and capitalism. An excellent video (with English subtitles) from the Antimidia collective on Indigenous struggles in Brazil.
From Freedom News (29/06/2026)
Moving a box of zines can now get you 30 years in Trump’s America, echoing the UK’s crackdown on protest
punkacademic
On Tuesday, while England played Ghana in the World Cup, down in Texas nine people each received decades in jail for participating in an anti-ICE protest.
The noise demo, on the last Fourth of July, had been organised to show solidarity with those incarcerated in the Prarieland ICE facility, near Dallas. Fireworks were set off. Graffiti was sprayed, and a government car’s tyres were slashed. The protest was peaceful until a police officer arrived and drew his weapon; another protestor – now sentenced to a century in prison – fired an apparent warning shot which struck and wounded the officer in the shoulder.
Continue reading
From Freedom News (27/06/2026)
Historical Athens squatting community saved from redevelopment after hunger strikes and popular campaign
Gabriel Fonten
The Prosfygika squatted community in Athens has declared victory in its struggle against redevelopment, publishing a statement on 25 June titled “The Struggle Has Won, The Struggle Continues!“. In the past months, the community has been under threat by a redevelopment plan pushed by regional governor N. Chardalias. However, under sustained local and international pressure, the Municipality of Athens on 24 June issued a resolution rebuking the plan, effectively cancelling the government’s push for gentrification. The resolution not only denied planning permission for the project, but also recognised the autonomy of the community and the right of residents to remain in their homes.
Throughout the last 140 days, mass protests have happened across Greece in support of the community, as well as solidarity demonstrations internationally. At the forefront of the struggle were the hunger strikes of Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne. After the decision to engage in hunger strikes was taken collectively, Chantzis went on hunger strike for 138 days before being admitted to hospital in critical condition. Now, both he and Doppagne (who begun her hunger strike on 1 May 2026) have finally called off their “hunger strikes till death”.
Though plans for redevelopment have now been cancelled, Prosfygika’s community has called on “the solidarity movement to remain vigilant”, both for any further plans by the government and the critical condition of the hunger strikers.
From Freedom News (28/06/2026)
His arguments are no less salient in the face of contemporary threats
Søren Hough
We often think of Alexander Berkman as one of the preeminent anarchist communist thinkers of his time. After all, he did write Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, a valiant attempt to lay out in concrete terms what anarchy might look like in practice. But Berkman was also a deep thinker about prison and police abolition: not as an addendum to his anarchism, but as a natural extension.
Continue reading
From Freedom News (28/06/2026)
90 years since the death of the great Russian-American anarchist
Frank Jacob
On 28 June, 1936, Alexander Berkman ended his life. Suffering from prostate cancer and financial hardship, he could no longer endure. Two weeks before the Spanish Civil War began, one of the most prominent anarchists of the previous five decades died. Emma Goldman, his former lover and lifelong friend, was in agony at the loss of her dear comrade, and the world had lost a great mind—one who refused inequality and repression, a man who fought relentlessly for freedom and revolution, despite his deep disappointment in the aftermath of 1917’s Red October.
Continue reading
From the Verso Books Blog (19/06/2026)
On what would have been Arno Mayer’s 100th birthday, we’re republishing Arno Mayer’s Memory and History, an expanded speech defending his practice of history, featured as afterword to Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?
Continue reading
From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026)
At the start of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film, Two Prosecutors (2025), two NKVD Chekists – torturers working in a “special detention” centre – exchange a joke that makes them laugh heartily. The prison commander tells his subordinate, a guard, the following story: “It’s the story of two Bolsheviks,” he says. “One asks the other: ‘What were you doing during the revolution?’ The second replies: ‘I was waiting in prison.’ ‘And after the revolution?’ ‘Prison was waiting for me.’” The tone is set. Nothing can shake the system in which these two thrive.
Continue reading
From the CrimethInc. collective (17/06/2026)
Towards a Queer History of Riots and Affinity Group Organizing
What can today’s rebels learn from the Stonewall riots? Why did the uprising have such an impact? To answer these questions, we explore the previously unacknowledged significance of anarchists in the rebellion and the movements that emerged from it. Along the way, we trace a queer genealogy of anarchist organizing methods in North America from the Stonewall Uprising through the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 to today.
This is a massive, meticulously researched historical investigation. It’s a deep dive! For a shorter introduction to the subject, see our previous article, “Stonewall Means Riot Right Now.”
Continue reading
From Ill Will (21/06/2026)
In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the emergence of nation states, the construction of the “migrant,” the role of left-wing nationalism in the failure of anti-imperialist struggles, and whether the No Borders movement points toward a revolutionary strategy for overcoming working-class divisions.
Continue reading
The highest expression of the organisation. Origin and development of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
Julián Vadillo Muñoz
From Redes Libertarias no. 5 (Spring 2026)/on line 11/06/2026
With a PhD in History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Julián Vadillo Muñoz is a secondary school teacher and a professor of contemporary history at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Specialising in the history of the labour movement, he has focused his research on the history of anarchism, and among his publications is the book, “Historia de la FAI. El anarquismo organizado” (Los Libros de la Catarata, Madrid, 2021).
The Wild Card of Clichés
One of the most frequently used arguments when analyzing the history of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) is to distort, consciously or unconsciously, its true role within the history of the libertarian movement. It is very common to find references to a mythologised FAI, composed almost entirely of iron-fisted figures, or to the exemplary organisation that imposed its particular vision and forceful approach on the CNT trade union. A “dictatorship of the FAI” that not only clashed with the very structure of the libertarian movement but also contradicted the origins of the anarchist body itself.
Continue reading →