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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…

From Wigan to NYC: Prison solidarity at year’s end

December 26th: New Year’s Eve is pushed as a time of year to go out and let your hair down, usually by going to some horribly overpriced, overcrowded club a…

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 …

John Dines joins list of confirmed police spies

December 20th: After months of putting a survivor of police human rights abuses through the legal wringer at taxpayers’ expense, the Met police have faile…

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.

Warwick occupation students win!

December 16th: Warwick students have ended their two-week occupation of the Slate conference centre declaring a partial win, as university bosses caved in on dema…

Anti-Fascist Network: National Action ban isn’t a positive development

December 14th: Following Monday’s government ban on National Action, the neo-Nazi former youth wing of the BNP, anti-fascists are warning that the measure w…

Aberthaw: Dirty coal plant blockaded

December 13th: Aberthaw coal-fired power station near Barry, South Wales was blockaded today by Reclaim The Power campaigners, who set up tripods on the road lead…

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…

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…

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Riseup mail service: Don’t Panic!

November 25th: Popular activist mail and email list service Riseup put out a message last night after speculation rose that the US government has been trying to i…

Lyon anarchists rally against fascist thugs after bookshop attack

November 24th: Anarchists in Lyon have called a protest against fascist street-thuggery for Saturday November 26th, after an attack by around 20 fascists on La…