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Reflections on a decade of UK Black Lives Matter

From Freedom News (09/08/2026) This racist violence we experience is an active race?making project serving the interests of capital Kojo Black Lives Matter UK was founded by activists who had worked together on previous deaths in police custody, both in … Continue reading

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A new hunting season has been declared (pt. 2), or the normalisation of fascism

On the 16th of July, at the invitation of Marco Rubio and the US State Department, representatives of over 60 countries gathered to hear Rubio annonce that “the counterterrorism architecture of the free world, built over a generation against jihadist … Continue reading

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Voltairine De Cleyre: An anarchist reading of the american revolution

Anarchism and American Traditions (1909) American traditions, begotten of religious rebellion, small self-sustaining communities, isolated conditions, and hard pioneer life, grew during the colonization period of one hundred and seventy years from the settling of Jamestown to the outburst of … Continue reading

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The new Palmer Raids

How Trump’s war on dissent borrows from America’s darkest playbook Joel Sucher, Freedom News (29/06/2026) History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes – and right now, the rhyme scheme is terrifyingly familiar. In the winter of 1919-1920, Attorney General A. … Continue reading

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The transatlantic war on freedom

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 … Continue reading

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Gays, Crazies, and Motherfuckers: Anarchists in the Stonewall Uprising

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 … Continue reading

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“understand that fascism is already here”*

I want to try to urge you to think about the historical system of slavery and the prison, the institution of the prison together. And specifically, I want us to think about the extent to which the vast global apparatus … Continue reading

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See ICE? Add Heat

From Ill Will (13/02/2026), by anonymous authors Yesterday, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, which brought several thousand ICE and CBP agents to the streets of Minnesota over the past few months. While this … Continue reading

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The Road to Prairieland

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/02/2026) The Crackdown on Anti-ICE Activists in Texas Reflects a Pattern of Intensifying Repression On July 4, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility imprisoning immigrants facing deportation … Continue reading

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Nate Holdren: Against The Border Power

The article that follows was originally posted here, at buttondown.com (05/02/2026) and subsequently here, at libcom.org (10/02/2026). As I’ve mentioned a while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it … Continue reading

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