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Anarchist News Review: Israel-Iran war, Kneecap and attacks on Amazon

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 regimes ~ Simon, Andy and Uri discuss this weeks headlines, including the scorching weather, the mountain-to-molehill cheapening of terrorism charges, direct action in Germany, and ruling-class realignment in Britain and the USA

The empire’s death engine strikes again

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 converge, as Western regimes and their enemies arm and threaten with Armageddon ~ Blade Runner ~ The Israeli state has escalated once again, launching war on Iran with a large-scale strike—Operation Rising Lion—which began on June 13, hitting over

Anarchist News Review: Israel under pressure, anarchist bookfairs and local elections

Anarchist News Review: Israel under pressure, anarchist bookfairs and local elections

Our weekly news review covering everything from Reform’s prospects in the polls to thoughts on the Spanish blackouts ~ The International Court of Justice and Amnesty International have gone after Israel’s actions in Gaza over the last week, while Palestine Action, Youth Demand and peace campaigners at Lakenheath have pushed for Britain to cut cooperation.

Report from anti-war congress in Hamburg

Report from anti-war congress in Hamburg

It seems like in the year 2024, governments and the people supporting them have accomplished the impossible in terms of normalising death—but refusal persists ~ Juju Alerta ~ With a wild demonstration to enliven the St Pauli district of Hamburg, people from different countries gathered in the city in mid-November to exchange stories and discussions

Their internationalism, and ours

Their internationalism, and ours

Freedom’s winter edition highlights solidarity across borders, then and now Internationalism’s a twisty beast, prone to making fools of us all. Just take the Leninist left’s insistence that Maduro, or Castro, or Xi Jinping (of all people) are worthy of our undying loyalty as opponents of Western imperialism. Autocrats given a pass on their obvious

Apocalypse war by proxy

Apocalypse war by proxy

The Middle East war joins Ukraine as a permanent site of conflict, the new model for superpower dominance in the age of collapse ~ Blade Runner ~ In just one year, the devastation has been staggering: since Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, Israel’s military onslaught has retaliated thirty-fold, with over 41,000 Palestinians killed, including 13,000 children

Israel-Lebanon war: Regional conflict looms

Israel-Lebanon war: Regional conflict looms

Israel’s extremist government threatens to invade Lebanon and draw Iran into the fighting ~ Blade Runner ~ The Israeli state continues to spread death and terror throughout the region. A new campaign began last week with the pager explosions, and has evolved this week into sustained bombings, with up to a million displaced the threat