Second interview with Anarchist Front on repression and resilience, regional war, and internet shutdowns ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ When you last spoke to …
Iranian anarchists: “We continue to organise and resist”
Tag: Iran
Anarchist News Review: Iran and the great imperial tantrum
~ Andy, Mike and Simon focus on week one of a chaotic Iran bombardment: with Starmer struggling to articulate why he’s been saying one thing …
UK is culpable in Iran attack, whatever Starmer says
It’s hard to expect a nation which reveres official secrecy and popular self-delusion to admit to evil in real time ~ punkacademic ~ On Satur…
Radical Reprint: Iran and the empires
A British- and American-sponsored coup in Iran caused widespread bloodshed in 1953 — then, as now, states are aggressors and people are victi…
Anarchist News Review: Greens v Reform and the US gears up for war
~ Mike and Jon have a chat about the ramifications of the Gorton and Denton by-election, Spycops and roads protest, the prospects of war in Iran an…
The resolve to leave this cage
Iranian poet and film-maker Forough Farrokhzad articulated female subjectivity, desire and dissent ~ Bleart Thaçi ~ For generations of Iranian wom…
Anarchist News Review: The US gets aggressive while the UK sits around
James Birmingham joins Simon and Jon for a transatlantic show to kick off 2026 ~ US bellicosity in Venezuela and Greenland has shocked the world wi…
Iranian anarchists: Uprising is “genuine self-organisation by ordinary people”
Interview with members of Anarchist Front, a collective spreading information about events in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ …
Anarchist News Review: Palestine Action Ban, Welfare Rebellion and Israel-Iran-US
It comes to something when even voicing support for a non-violent direct action group risks being designated as crossing the line, but Labour is no…
Palestine Action ban: Trolls on parade
The government’s attempt to brand non-violent direct activists as “terrorists” has already backfired ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ This was the week …
Anarchist News Review: Israel-Iran war, Kneecap and attacks on Amazon
The slippage from containing WMDs to calls for regime change rings all too familiar — but wars’ main function is still to preserve regi…
The empire’s death engine strikes again
Israel’s attack on Iran marks the latest phase of global war capitalism—subcontracted settler-colonialism and genocidal thanatopolitics converg…
Coronation arrests will embolden dictators
Today, British society may celebrate itself for supposedly being “liberal”, “tolerant” or “multicultural”, but all of these words are just empty ca…
Reports of Iranian state using ambulances to transport security forces and arrest protestors
After the killing of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian ‘morality police’, over 80 cities have been in revolt and the state has killed at least…
Iran: three protesters sentenced to death
Three young people were sentenced to death by Teheran’s “Revolutionary Court”.
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Jim Crow is still alive
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