French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
Tag: France
France blockades: The leaderless escalate
Yesterday’s day of action saw Bloquons Tout stepping out of the shadows nationwide—and facing major police repression ~ punkacademic ~ Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Wednesday (10 September) as the first day of action organised under the banner Bloquons Tout (“Block Everything”) saw widespread protests and blockades in defence
Tomorrow, France revolts
A decentred leaderless movement aims to shut down France on 10 September in a powerful attack on the bankruptcy of Macronism ~ punkacademic ~ It’s unusual that the loss of a Prime Minister and their government might not be the worst thing to happen in a week for a sitting French President, but this week
You cannot arrest an Arsène Lupin!
A tribute to Maurice Leblanc’s ‘gentleman thief’, an anarchistic cultural icon ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ On July 15, 1905, the first story featuring the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin was published in the French popular science magazine Je sais tout.
Élisée Reclus—Communard, geographer, vegetarian
On July 4, 1905, the French anarchist Élisée Reclus died in Torhout, near Bruges in Belgium ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ Reclus, after whom a street leading to the Eiffel Tower in Paris is named, was one of the most well-known anarchist propagandists in France—and at the same time one of the country’s most important geographers.
Dockers successfully block arms shipment to Israel
French and Italian dockworkers unite in practical resistance to the Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ David TNnzk ~ On Thursday, 5 June, workers at the port of Marseille unionised with CGT and backed by a solidarity presidium, successfully refused three containers full of military equipment which were scheduled to be loaded onto the Contship Era,
France: Anarchists claim mass power outages in Cannes, Nice
Communiqué describes Cannes film festival as an “obscene ceremony held at the edge of a sea that has become a cemetery for refugees” ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Two anarchist groups have claimed responsibility for a series of power outages that struck southeastern France over the weekend, affecting over 200,000 households in Cannes and Nice.
Anarchist News Review: Cheap AI panic, Extremism (un)defined and Liberal ineffectualism
A winding discussion starts with China’s Deepseek and its impact on US dominance in the sphere of artificial intelligence.
Anti-nuke actions in memory of Sébastien Briat
Range of decentralised responses across France and Germany mark twentieth anniversary of activist killed by a train carrying radioactive waste ~ Rob Latchford ~ Numerous decentralised actions have been carried out on railway tracks and nuclear industry sites in France and Germany to mark the 20th anniversary of Sébastien Briat’s death.
France: Last occupation against A69 motorway falls
After violent police evictions, the few trees still standing in the way of the controversial road have been cut down ~ Zandra Russel ~ On Monday the 7th of October 2024 the last ‘squirrels’ left their trees named Zineb and Noguerre under pressure from the cops; now the struggle against the A69 motorway in southwest
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Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
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.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
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,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
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.
