Notes from the US: Surplus population
September 18th: Now it’s bare-faced fascism—but doctors are putting up more resistance than Democrats ~ Louis Further ~ As wildfires aggravated by climate collapse swept through the Pacific Northwest, last month a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operatives turned up at the site of the ‘Bear Gulch’ blaze in Washington state.
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
September 15th: French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
September 12th: The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
France blockades: The leaderless escalate
September 11th: Yesterday’s day of action saw Bloquons Tout stepping out of the shadows nationwide—and facing major police repression ~ punkacademic ~ Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Wednesday (10 September) as the first day of action organised under the banner Bloquons Tout (“Block Everything”) saw widespread protests and blockades in defence
Nepal: Parliament torched after police kill 19 protesters
September 10th: GenZ protests against social media ban and elite corruption become mass uprising against state violence ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Soldiers are patrolling the streets of Kathmandu after protests against corruption and a sweeping social media ban escalated to open rebellion following the killing of 19 protesters.
Sumud flotilla heads to Gaza “to break the blockade and stop the genocide”
September 4th: While Israel brands it as ‘terrorism’, Genoa dockworkers threaten mass action should the flotilla be intercepted ~ Santiago Navarro F, Avispa Midia ~ As the Sumud Flotilla sails through the Mediterranean, Israel’s stance has been swift, threatening to label its crew, from more than 44 countries, as terrorists and to arrest and imprison them.
Indonesia uprising: “A collective eruption of rage”
September 1st: Protests remain militant, as student and union leaders fail to gain control of the grassroots ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Protesters across Indonesia have launched another day of confrontational demonstrations, with the uprising that has gripped the country in recent days showing no signs of abating.
Book review: Desire and Fate
September 17th: Instead of a coherent critique of woke culture, we get a confused, grudge-laden screed that fails to balance the left’s internal contradictions with any meaningful analysis ~ John Henri Nolette ~ As a semi-sympathetic critic of both “woke” and “anti-woke” narratives, I had high hopes for this book.
London Anarchist Bookfair 2025: The workshops list
September 16th: Kae Tempest, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Peter Gelderloos will be among the performers and speakers at this year’s big anarchist get-together ~ Freedom News ~ With the bookfair nearly upon us—this Saturday 20 September— Freedom threw a few messages at the organisers, who have kindly gotten back to us with the workshops schedule, fresh off
Two different paths to world peace?
September 7th: Erich Mühsam and Bertha von Suttner, anarchist antimilitarism and organised pacifism ~ Bernd Drücke, ZivilCourage ~ The Civil Courage editorial team asked me to outline Erich Mühsam’s anarchist-antimilitarist positions and to demonstrate the differences between pacifism and anarchist antimilitarism.
Anarchist News Review: The UK far-right cosplays the US, as Trump comes to town
September 18th: Just days after sacking one Epstein pal, Starmer is welcoming another to hang out with the King and preen in castles—while arresting embarrassing critics ~ Andy and Simon consider an extremely newsey week, from Tommy Robinson’s biggest-ever march and Keir Starmer’s hebdomadis horribilis, to Trump’s chaotic (and ill-timed) UK visit, the fallout from Charlie Kirk,
Facing down the flagshaggers
September 15th: To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
September 13th: Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
