World
Brazil: Activists warn of fascist surge
September 26th: On Sunday night the neighbourhood of Jardim América, Belo Horizonte found its horizon bounded by that orange cloud characteristic of a major fire — a two-storey building was in the process of burning to the ground.
CNT warns of riot cops shipped into Barcelona docks
September 21st: In the febrile atmosphere of Catalonia’s attempted independence referendum and repression from Madrid, activists with the anarchist CNT union report that national police have been shipped in from all over Spain and are holed up at Barcelona’s port, seemingly in preparation to crush any significant upheavals.
Argentina: Family of disappeared anarchist furious as police raid Mapuche
September 19th: The brother of Santiago Maldonado publicly denounced the federal government yesterday after more than 300 troops from the Special Group of Federal Operations (GEOF) were sent into the countryside around Cushamen to “look for him” — 47 days after the solidarity activist went missing during a police raid.
Turkey: Anarchist magazine distributors jailed for six months
September 16th: Repression against the team at Meydan anarchist magazine in Turkey took another twist on Thursday after three members of the distribution team were jailed for six months each.
Notes from the US: Blackwater bubbles up again
September 14th: In 2007 mercenaries from the notorious Blackwater terrorist company (now Constellis Holdings following its fourth name change) murdered a total of 14 unarmed Iraqis and left another 17 wounded in the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad.
Czech Rep: Klinika radical centre threatened with eviction
September 9th: On Tuesday September 5th the municipal court in Prague opened the way for the eviction of Klinika, an autonomous social centre set up in one of the city’s old clinics.
Spain: Nazi given community service after explosives found at home
September 6th: A hardcore Nazi who posed with heavy weaponry shooting anti-fascist signs and built up an arsenal of guns and explosives is a free man today having been handed a community service sentence — as opposed to the 11 years in jail for terror offences that had been requested by prosecutors.
Durban: 67 years after Apartheid evictions, ANC violently attacks Cato Manor occupation
August 26th: Two people have been blinded this week in violent reprisals from State and local ANC-linked thugs as they try to push land occupiers out of Cato Manor in Durban, South Africa.
Brutality of France’s police has precedent
August 21st: This article was originally written for Harz Labour, a journal published by comrades involved in autonomous struggles in the West of France.
Notes From the US
August 13th: Louis Further’s monthly column for Freedom was written shortly before events in Charlottesville, where a white supremacist, allegedly Unite the Right supporter James Field, drove his car into a crowd of anti-fascists, killing one and injuring 19.
