While last year the perpetrators were identified as being part of organised crime, in 2025 the main aggressors are unknown actors and state actors …
Chiapas: Attacks on human rights defenders and journalists on the rise
Tag: Mexico
Octavio Alberola Suriñach (1928-2025)
The lifelong CNT militant was part of the Cuban revolution and participated in physical resistance to Franco ~ Joselito ~ Octavio Alberola Suriñac…
24 hours in a Tijuana shelter: “Don’t forget us”
Some 80 migrants are anxiously following Donald Trump’s policy of closing and militarizing the border from their nylon homes, increasingly se…
Freedom News Review 29.10.2024
Items discussed in this program: German antifascist arrests and deportations • Valencia square occupation for decent housing • Lisbon riots aft…
Escalation in Chiapas: Priest assassinated, attacks on Zapatista communities
Social movements denounce murder of Mexican priest as conflict intensifies with state-complicit cartels ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ Amid reports of attacks …
Mexico: Ten years on, families of missing students have not forgotten
The students were abducted from Ayotzinapa in the state of Guerrero, in collusion between police and cartels ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ Thousands marched i…
A pick and a shovel
From Chiapas, an essay on solidarity, empathy and courage — to thank the mothers searching for victims of the human rights crisis in Mexico S…
The new structure of Zapatista autonomy
Following their statement dissolving their autonomous government, the Zapatistas have released another statement:
On the periphery of police violence: dispatches from London, Athens & Mexico City
The first time I encountered violence outside of the family I was fifteen and there was a machete pointed at my throat.
Mexico: Anger over reactionary violence reaches boiling point
This week has seen more clashes in Mexico City between activists against State repression, who have been designated “anarchist youth” b…
Mexico: anarchist political prisoner begins hunger strike
Last Friday Miguel Angel Peralta Betanzos, an anarchist political prisoner from Oaxaca, has decided to begin hunger strike.
Indigenous communities across Mexico boycott elections
Many indigenous communities across Mexico refrained from voting in today’s national elections.
Mexico: teachers strike against education reform
The CNTE teachers’ union called a 48-hour strike in southeastern Mexico, paralyzing traffic for hours in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Mexico: State steps up pressure on autonomous Oaxaca groups
It appears that Alejandro Avilés, secretary general of Oaxaca State, Mexico, is once again trying to undermine autonomous indigenous organising …
Mexico: 50 anarchist groups “at war” with State and capital
This translated article by investigative magazine Contralinea, originally submitted to US anarchist site It’s Going Down, looks at the rise of i…
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Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
Anarchist News Review: Burn-in or Burnout in Makerfield?
It’s by-election jabbering time with Simon and Andy Plus thoughts on major events of the week including the Iran deal, Palestine Action ruling, D…
