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.
Both teams share a unique friendship based on anti-fascist and activist priorities, providing a safe home for identities who don’t fit the typical sporting trajectory ~ Alice Hoole ~ Originally published 14 January 2025 The Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls (Cowfolk) and Republica Internationale were founded forty years ago in Bristol and Leeds.
Solidarity groups and Slovenian government calling for investigation of the provocative operation at resistance memorial site ~ Joseph King ~ On Sunday 27 July, Austrian police raided an anti-fascist youth camp held at the Peršman Homestead in a remote area of the state of Carinthia.
This summer, an emboldened far right is repackaging racist outrages as ‘local issues’—and the mainstream media is playing along ~ Blade Runner ~ Hundreds turned out to counter a fash protest in Epping Forest on Sunday 27 July, mobilised by Stand Up To Racism and local trade unions and joined by grassroots antifascists.
Antifascist in critical condition as father delivers mass petition to German foreign ministry ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ After forty days, Maja T has suspended their hunger strike due to deteriorating health conditions.
Activist’s father walking to Berlin with 100,000 signatures to “demand justice for his child” jailed in Budapest ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ Solidarity actions have been taking place over the last days with Maja T, a non-binary anti-fascist activist and one of the accused in the Budapest case.
Following a recent tourney, one member from a participating gym talks about the need for and increasing number of explicitly political self-defence spaces.
Other European governments have refused to honour extradition requests from Hungary for antifascist activists, citing concerns for their safety and wellbeing ~ punkacademic ~ Antifascist Maja T today began a hunger strike protesting their treatment by Hungarian judicial authorities since their extradition from Germany last year. Whilst in custody in Hungary, Maja, who identifies as non-binary,
Judge cites “risks of violations of guaranteed rights” to freedom from torture and to a fair trial in Budapest ~ Scott Harris ~ The extradition chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal today (9 April) rejected the extradition to Hungary of Rexhino “Gino” Abazaj, a 32-year-old Albanian anti-fascist wanted for alleged violence against neo-Nazis in
Armed house searches and arrests in Graz following protest against right-wing student associations’ ball ~ Rob Latchford ~ Police in Graz, Austria have arrested seven anti-fascists over the past two weeks on orders of the public prosecutor’s office.
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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