The anarcho-syndicalist international has published a public call backing a general strike and supporting a statement on the Yellow Vest movement written by its French section, CNT-AIT. The International Workers Association (IWA) would like to show its solidarity with the social protests occurring in France which are yet another example of resistance to the overbearing
Protests in Paris were attacked by police yesterday, with marchers under the CGT banner being tear-gassed as they rallied against labour laws being introduced by the Macron government stripping away labour rights. The new laws (Loi Travail) have been hugely controversial across France, sparking protests and anger across the labour movement – though the country’s
The beginning of 1945 was a turbulent time for Freedom Press, along with anarchism in Britain and western Europe ~ Rob Ray ~ While the Germans were mounting their last, doomed offensive, the outcome of World War II was already no longer in doubt.
Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation ~ Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi ~ A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently earned another, more interesting, nickname: “an agent of chaos”, the Guardian called him on December 20, echoing a definition that
120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905.
People with war trauma in a shitty economy—it’s practically set up to make terrorists ~ James Birmingham ~ On January 1, 2025 two acts of violence (albeit one largely self-inflicted) occurred within hours of each other, one in Las Vegas and the other in New Orleans.
At international gathering in Oventik, Zapatista communities decry recent attacks and desire “to build for life on collective lands” ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ The first session of International Meetings of Rebellions and Resistance 2024-2025 was held in Oventik, in the EZLN-liberated territories in Southeast Mexico between December 28-30.
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