The adventures of G. P. Maximoff
March 18th: How the Russian anarcho-syndicalist became a political journalist, ended up in the Red Army, and helped organise Kropotkin’s funeral ~ Nikolai Gerasimov ~ In the 1930s, Chicago was the capital of American gangsters.
Rojava in the balance as SDF agrees integration with Syrian state
March 17th: Concerns about communal democracy and gender equality in the region, despite constitutional guarantees for Kurds ~ Blade Runner ~ On 10 March, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi Kobani was transported to Damascus aboard a U.S.
In pictures: International Women’s Day in London
March 11th: On Saturday 8 March—International Women’s Day—two major demonstrations took place in downtown London ~ Blade Runner ~ A coalition of grassroots feminist and supporting organisations called for an International Women’s Strike, gathering at Gandalf’s Corner in Regent’s Park. A colourful and vibrant crowd numbering in the low thousands marched chanting through Marylebone, bringing traffic to
Spycops victims refuse to give evidence in open letter
March 10th: Witnesses demand fair treatment as Inquiry accused of unreasonable deadlines ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Over a hundred witnesses and groups involved in the Undercover Policing Inquiry have signed an open letter in which they declare their refusal to hand in any evidence, given the Inquiry’s unreasonable deadlines for doing so.
Notes from the US: Quack remedies
March 14th: There has been little effective, determinative resistance to the fascist coup underway since Trump’s inauguration on 20 January ~ Louis Further ~ Articles of impeachment have been filed.
Tesla attacks, Iran repression, Mali teachers’ strike
March 13th: World news in brief ~ Rob Latchford ~ Colorado police arrested Lucy Grace Nelson (40) on Monday outside a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado, after a week long investigation into previous attacks on the dealership.
International Women’s Day Worldwide
March 11th: Women and their allies took to the streets to demand gender equality and an end to violence, in global resistance against regressive policies ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ International Women’s Day is a global call to action against patriarchal oppression, economic injustice, and state violence.
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: Internationalist poet
March 16th: An early British anti-fascist, her working-class voice was powerful and unique ~ Megan Williams ~ An internationalist thread went through Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s entire life and career, establishing her as a significant force in early twentieth century British socialism.
Radical Reprint: Defence of four London Anarchists
March 9th: As the State’s machinery of repression ground slowly onwards, both the 10 March and 24 March 1945 issues of War Commentary, Freedom’s wartime newspaper, had extensive coverage of anarchists being sent to court, solidarity actions and continued police searches ~ Rob Ray ~ The headline case, following on from raids at the end of 1944
Still worth fighting: Nicolas Walter remembered
March 7th: The great anarchist historian and activist left us a message for these dire times ~ Natasha Walter ~ How do we keep hope and faith alive?
Anarchist News Review: Spycops victims, IWD and protest sentencing results
March 13th: It’s was inevitable that Starmerite Labour would come for welfare in a vain attempt to look tough on the poor ~ We discuss the implications of that, talk about the factors which make the sort of international solidarity of the IWD marches so important, and on the (somewhat related) shameful behaviour of the State as
Toby Shone: “The state machine is terrified of the links we make with each other”
March 12th: The freed anarchist prisoner spoke about solidarity and abolition at the Brighton Cowley Club ~ Elizabeth Vasileva ~ A talk by anarchist ex-prisoner Toby Shone at the Cowley Club in Brighton drew almost 20 people on Friday (7 March).
Climate protests: Harsh sentencing is here to stay
March 10th: Despite reduced prison terms, the Court of Appeal clearly indicated the end of leniency for conscientious disruption ~ Andy Meinke ~ After Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain protesters received harsh sentences, activists and their legal teams—ten counsel in court and many more working in the background— trooped to the Royal Courts of Justice in
