The International Solidarity with Antifascists Collective recently put on a fundraiser gig in South London in solidarity with the anti-dictatorship, anti-fascist struggle in Myanmar ~ Members of ISAC ~ The conflict in Myanmar is often called the “forgotten war” due to the lack of international attention it receives.
“There’s a strong tradition of far-right activism in universities, anti-fascists have been trying to combat that and they’ve been demonised for it” ~ Mike Finn joins us to talk about Austria’s targeting of anti-fascists barely a month after being forced into a three-party coalition to shut out the far-right, and how “liberal order” governments across
We’re joined by legal eagle Andy Meinke to talk about the news of the week, and muse upon what work the anarchist movement can be doing to rebuild our strength in the face of downheartening events.
The essays collected here outline what being against 21st century fascism — both as it exists inside and outside the State — can and should mean ~ Jay Arachnid ~ The selections from eponymous website threewayfight.org are arranged chronologically rather than thematically, which is a fair enough editorial decision.
A winding discussion starts with China’s Deepseek and its impact on US dominance in the sphere of artificial intelligence.
The anti-fascist combat sports tournament took place in Poznań, Poland ~ Czech Anarchist Federation members ~ “You give a front, back, shovel hook to the liver and then a strong low-kick” was one of the basic combinations that we drilled together with our comrades until we were completely crazy — the goal was to memorise
Black Metal still has a far right problem—here are some tools to fight back Despite what some fans may claim, far right political organizing in the extreme metal scene was not a flash-in-the-pan phenomenon that ended in the 1990s.
To defuse an eco-fascist campaign, radicals in Lyon are working on intellectual and legal counterattacks
Anti-fascist research group Red Flare report on the far-right group’s trajectory and split.
CGT released a statement calling on the working class to strengthen their anti-fascist involvement and publicly reject the activities of ultra-right pressure groups:
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
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.
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,
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.
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