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Greece: Refugee support centre squatters held in court limbo after eviction

January 29th: A number of anarchists, including international militants Itziar and Iñak (pictured) have had their trial put off yet again in Greece following t…

Germany: FAU welcomes challenge to law attacking small unions

January 28th: Anarcho-syndicalist union FAU has welcomed legal action from the German Association of Journalists (DJV) and pilot’s union Cockpit as the c…

Crisis within Crisis, Zimbabwe: As we manufacture our own oppression

January 23rd: In this article originally written for South African anarchist group Zabalaza Anarchist Communist  Front (ZACF), Leroy Maisiri talks about his ex…

Slovenia: Squat crackdown hits UPI social centre

January 22nd: Activists at Creative Platform Inde (UPI), one of Slovenia’s most active squatter social centres, have refused to leave after being threatene…

Crimethinc: A History of Anarchist Counter-Inaugural Protest

January 20th: Thousands of protesters will stream into the streets of Washington, DC on January 20 to oppose the incoming presidency of Donald Trump.

Mexico: State steps up pressure on autonomous Oaxaca groups

January 18th: It appears that Alejandro Avilés, secretary general of Oaxaca State, Mexico, is once again trying to undermine autonomous indigenous organising …

Louis Further: Notes from the US

January 13th: Elections hold only a morbid fascination for anarchists, we know they achieve little.

Protests as Irish Housing Minister betrays squat deal

January 11th: Protests were held across Ireland against Housing Minister Simon Coveney today after he backed out of pledges to provide accommodation for Dublin…

Turkey: Meydan anarchists — ‘we are being cornered’

January 5th: Late last month the editor of Meydan anarchist newspaper in Istanbul was sentenced to a year and three months in prison for “supporting terr…

Anarchists talk about Den Haag and the 2015 riots

January 2nd: Den Haag in the Netherlands has gone through some of the deepest upheavals in the country, including riots in 2015 over the police killing of Mitch…

Guatemala: Q’anjob’al community win their fight against hated hydro-dam project

January 1st: After eight years of struggle, communities in Huehuetenango, Guatemala are celebrating a decision by Spanish company Ecoener-Hidralia to start shut…

Editor of Turkish anarchist paper jailed for “terror propaganda”

December 24th: The editor of Meydan Gazette in Istanbul was jailed for a year and three months on December 22nd for “propagandising the methods of a terror …

Mexico: 50 anarchist groups “at war” with State and capital

December 20th: This translated article by investigative magazine Contralinea, originally submitted to US anarchist site It’s Going Down, looks at the rise of i…

Argentina: Police brutalise protests against river-poisoning Veladero mine

December 19th: Police in San Juan, Argentina brutally evicted environmental campaigners who had been blockading the access road to Barrick Gold’s poisonous …

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Notes from the US

December 18th: Louis Further’s regular roundup column with analysis and news from North America that you might have missed.