Half Europe authorized, three centuries ago, to dismantle a crown with more than five centuries of history, in exchange for ending a war for the control of the colonial empire. As a result, the rights and privileges, civil and institutional, of the kingdoms that were part of it were ended. The principality of the crown,
In a general statement, the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union has called for yesterday’s general strike to be just the start of a moment where the working class asserts itself against Stats and capital, and goes beyond the question of which ruling class gets to be in charge After the 3-O strike, CNT calls for extending the
Writing for Spanish anarchist website A Las Barricadas, Acratosaurio rex explores the bizarre spectacle of Spain’s central government spending tens of millions of Euros on preparations for an extreme police crackdown against Catalonia, partly on the grounds of saving money that would otherwise be “wastefully” spent on an independence referendum by the regional administration. All this
In the febrile atmosphere of Catalonia’s attempted independence referendum and repression from Madrid, activists with the anarchist CNT union report that national police have been shipped in from all over Spain and are holed up at Barcelona’s port, seemingly in preparation to crush any significant upheavals. Dock workers with Portuaris CNT have been tracking police
Following a recent tourney, one member from a participating gym talks about the need for and increasing number of explicitly political self-defence spaces.
The criminalisation of homelessness and poverty is not truly ending—only being reshaped ~ Tony ~ On 10 June 2025 the Government confirmed it will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring 2026 (you just can’t rush these things), and whilst the news was widely and justifiably welcomed by homelessness charities, we should sound a note
As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests against arbitrary and sadistic raids on non-White families—first in Los Angeles and increasingly in other cities across the US—is by and large what you get on the ground.
The stalls, workshops, and after-party gig made for an event to be remembered ~ Don B ~ On Saturday (June 7th) the fourth annual Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair was held at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle Upon-Tyne.
There’s cause for optimism in a greater public awareness of how media manipulates reality – but social media is far more insidious …
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