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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.

As Syriza ponders an “accommodation” with Golden Dawn, anarchists fight back

December 12th: In the aftermath of recent clashes in Athens, Greece, on the anniversary of the police murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos on December 8th 2008, fasci…

Anarchism and the Italian referendum

December 4th: The statement below by the Sicilian Anarchist Federation (original Italian version here) addresses the referendum on changes to the national consti…

Milan crackdown threatens Torricelli St anarchist squat after 40 years

November 27th: Supporters of Milan’s longest-running squatted social centre remain on high alert after a threatened eviction order slated for November 24…

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Tribute to the victims of feminicide

November 26th: On Thursday and Friday night (Nov 24th-25th) the Insomnia collective conducted a series of actions across Paris, France to highlight patriarchal m…