The North Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov sentenced an anarchist Yevgeny Karakashev to 6 years in a penal colony and two-year internet ban. Karakashev was accused of making “calls for terrorism” on VKontakte social network site. Yevgeny Karakashev was arrested in Fabruary 2018 at his house in the city of Evpatoria, when a group
On Monday, the Green Anti-Capitalist Front took part in the environmentalist actions which begun in London. Here is their report from the day. Less than a month after our first assembly we took to the streets of London to carry out an action to coincide with the beginning of Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) ‘Rebellion Week’. We
The Spanish CNT-AIT and UK’s Solidarity Federation reported on new labor disputes they take part in. On April 9, a picket was held in Granada in Spain against the Patricia Villanueva shoe store. Having settled down at the entrance, the CNT activists began to call for a boycott of the store and for solidarity with
This July, Reclaim the Power plans to set up the Power Beyond Borders camp to take direct action against the gas infrastructure fuelling the climate crisis and the UK’s ‘hostile environment” policy targeting migrants. The camp is scheduled to take place between 26th and 31st July, and its location will be announced shortly. Reclaim the
Amid presence the courtroom of riot police, regular police, court bailiffs and supporters, the trial in the case of the Network begun in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, with a 24-year old programmer Viktor Filinkov and a 27-year- old Yuli Bayarshinov charged with involvement in the “anarchist terrorist community”. Filinkov and Bayarshinov are on trial by
On Mondy 15th April the recently formed Green Anti-Capitalist Front are calling for a start of actions to highlight that the root cause of climate change and environmental destruction is capitalism. Here is the GAF call-out: We are calling for a broad anti-capitalist front to take part inenvironmentalist actions starting on Monday 15th of April
“…the weakening of the state, the progressive development of its imperfections, is a social necessity. The strengthening of other loyalties, of alternative foci of power, of different modes of human behaviour, is an essential for survival…Our task is not to gain power , but to erode it, to drain it away from the state.” Colin
The activists from Anti Raids Network have successfully shut down the Eaton House immigration enforcement base in Hunslow. Eaton House is one of four immigration enforcement bases in London. It covers West London area. Immigration enforcement officers plan their operations and leave from there to carry out raids and intelligence gathering visits. The blockade, involving
A protest is planned in London this Friday evening against a performance at Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston of a Nazi apologist, writer, saxophonist and political activist Gilad Atzmon. One of the protest organisers, speaking to Freedom News, said: “Gilad is not just a very naughty boy with a messiah complex (seeing himself as saving
On the 12th March 2019 students, activists and academics have taken action against the visit of the former Italian Minister of Interior, Marco Minniti, the architect of Italy’s policy to externalisation of the EU border to Libya and the sealing of the Mediterranean route. During a scheduled talk at the London School of Economics (LSE)
The London headquarters of Amnesty International have been occupied by Kurdish activists and friends to shed light on the Kurdish Hunger Strikes.
Geoffrey Servante, almost certainly the last surviving British member of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War passed away last Sunday at the age of 99.
The North Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov sentenced an anarchist Yevgeny Karakashev to 6 years in a penal colony and two-year internet ban.
It is a standard cliché of Marxist attacks on anarchism to contrast “individualistic” anarchism with “collectivist” syndicalism.
On Monday, the Green Anti-Capitalist Front took part in the environmentalist actions which begun in London. Here is their report from the day.
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