
SolFed picket burger bastards
February 14th: Staff were kept in the dark about 110 redundancies and “worked for nothing” in January, say activists ~ Stanton Cree ~ Solidarity Federation in Manchester yesterday (13 February) held a picket outside local burger restaurant Super Awesome Deluxe, following the sudden closure of all Almost Famous burger restaurants across Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester.
Peckham protests luxury towers plan
February 13th: As private investment in high-end flats continues, housing groups report record overcrowding in social housing ~ Blade Runner ~ Despite the cold and rain, 150 people gathered in Peckham Square on Saturday (8 February) to protest redevelopment plans for Peckham town centre, and show their solidarity against another aggressive gentrification project.

Barcelona: Mass resistance to eviction at Casa Orsola
February 3rd: Live-streamed mobilisation continues in latest battle against gentrification ~ Blade Runner ~ The planned eviction of tenants at Casa Orsola was temporarily halted this weekend after large-scale resistance by housing groups, residents, and local supporters.

Seven anti-fascists wanted by Hungary turn themselves in
January 27th: Maja T offered fourteen years in plea deal for attacks at neo-Nazi ‘Day of Honor’ ~ Juju Alerta ~ Seven of the anti-fascists in hiding since the ‘Day of Honour’ events in Budapest have turned themselves in to German authorities, reported ABC Dresden on 20 January.

Greece: Mass protests demand justice for train crash victims
January 31st: Tempi disaster investigation widely seen as a cover-up for infrastructure neglect ~ Kit Dimou ~ Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters flooded the streets of Greece last weekend, responding to a call from families of the 57 victims of the Tempi train crash in February 2023.

Ukraine: Solidarity Collectives & anarchists in the ranks
January 30th: In an interview, Ksusha looks forward to “drone cooperatives, rehabilitation of the war injured, cultural projects, squats for refugees” ~ Cristina Sykes ~ An anarchist based in Kyiv has responded to questions from Kapinatyöläinen magazine in Finland about the activities of anti-authoritarian networks in Ukraine today.

The bizarre ritual of re-elections in Belarus
January 25th: While heavy repression will prevent any mass protests, resistance from below continues ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ On Sunday 26 January Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected for his seventh term as president; in contrast to the 2020 elections, which became a culmination of political mobilisation for hundreds of thousands of Belarusians, this round of re-elections is

Joke Kaviaar: “We make music very clearly from an anarchist point of view”
February 11th: The poet and performer is a veteran of the Dutch grassroots movement ~ Christiaan Verwey, Buiten de Orde ~ Last night you were with your band Your Local Pirates in Burgers in Eindhoven.

Radical Reprint: Arrests and jail terms for Freedom Press editors
February 9th: Following raids on Freedom Press by Special Branch, at the behest of the Home Office, which had been reported in January 1945 (recounted in last month’s column), pressure was kept up with a succession of court cases, reported on at length by the right-wing press ~ Rob Ray ~ That the February 24th edition of

Report from Derry Radical Bookfair
February 7th: My expectations were high, and I was not disappointed over the weekend ~ Don B ~ The 9th Annual Derry Radical Bookfair took place last weekend (1 February), in a city that has a long history of radical political action.

Anarchists have teeth—do anarchist collectives?
February 14th: Building collective power reduces pressure on individuals and makes us less dependent on charismatic personalities ~ Nora Ziegler ~ Anarchists of different ages, genders and backgrounds pride themselves on being tough, brave, competent, compassionate, skilled, patient, sharp, committed, creative, radical—and there really are some outstanding individuals out there!

Anarchist News Review: Bookfairs, Climate protest, Far right in Germany and UK
February 13th: We’re joined by legal eagle Andy Meinke to talk about the news of the week, and muse upon what work the anarchist movement can be doing to rebuild our strength in the face of downheartening events.

Make Climate Politics Antifascist
February 12th: Confronting the far right means solidarity with climate refugees ~ James Horton ~ In late January, the Climate and Nature (CaN) Bill failed to pass at the House of Commons.