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Turin: Chronicle of a day of action

June 11th: Every year, on June 2nd, the Italian State celebrates its own existence with Festa della Repubblica‘s military parades and ceremonies.

Spray and affray as Paris police spark riot with fire hydrant arrest

June 2nd: The police version of events is as follows: at 6.20pm on Camille Groult street in the south-eastern Paris suburb of Vitry cops want to collar a per…

South Africa: Shack dwellers besiege police station after cops kill baby in assault on settlement

May 29th: A furious, mourning community marched on Sydenham police station in Durban today after a police assault on the city’s Foreman Road shack sett…

Mexico: General strike hitting retail transnationals today

May 27th: Retail giant Walmart cut its “profit sharing” bonus for already low-paid staff by up to 80% this year despite record and growing prof…

Anarchists analyse Brazil’s political earthquake

May 26th: In the following essay members of Coordinación Anarquista Brasileña, a member group of the Anarkismo network, analyses the series of mass protest…

Italy: A personal experience of enforced DNA sampling

May 23rd: For more than a year now forcibly collected DNA sampling has been used by Italian police in the ritual of identification for anybody they arrest…

Louis Further: Notes from the US

May 14th: Freedom’s US correspondent rounds up of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks, including the first leak of t…

France: National rally called to back workers who have occupied and booby-trapped factory

May 12th: CGT union delegates have called for a national rally in support of workers at GM&S who have occupied their workplace and threatened to blow it …

Venezuela: A call to anarchists worldwide – solidarity is much more than a written word

May 12th: In this special callout the Editorial Collective of Venezuelan newspaper El Libertario call on anarchists to reject uncritical support for the Ma…

France and the Deliveroo ridearound

May 11th: In France the wildcat strike is certainly the most popular method of protest against Deliveroo, although it is not always the most effective.

Italy: Six arrests in latest raid on Asilo anarchist squat

May 6th: Heavily armed officers from the General Investigations and Special Operations Division of Italy (Digos) broke down the front door and invaded the…

Brazil: A letter to anarchists in the wake of the general strike

April 30th: In this analysis of recent Brazilian protests, which culminated in a general strike and a riot which shook Rio, Vantiê Clínio Carvalho de Oliveir…

Argentina: Hotel Bauen eviction called off at last minute

April 20th: Famed worker-occupied building Hotel Bauen got a stay of execution last night after the National Chamber of Appeals in Buenos Aires allowed an inj…

Venezuela: State Power — when the Left is the problem

April 17th: As protests rise once again on the streets of Caracas, we are witnessing a struggle between the conservative Venezuelan bourgeoisie removed from c…

Spain: CGT acquitted of ‘ridiculing Catholicism’ with Procession of the Holy Pussy

April 15th: Early this week a regional court told lawyers for the hardline Christian Advocates Association they would not be allowed to sue the anarcho-syndica…