Aboveground organizers will need to facilitate practical experimentation by belowground militants, who in turn must cultivate zones of indistinction from the broader, legal movement ~ Lake Effect Collective The Democratic National Convention descended on Chicago during the last week of August, bringing with it swarms of police and politicians who quickly rendered the city uninhabitable.
Fourteen trans activists from the Trans Kids Deserve Better, all aged 18 or under, have occupied the Department for Education’s (DfE) Westminster headquarters to protest for “the right to a safe and inclusive education, and the rights of trans youth and adults”.
Just Stop Oil are being branded “fanatics” for disruptive actions whose like hardly raised an eyebrow a decade ago
Struggle against hoarding of water by agro-industry sees five days of action, culminating in a 10,000-strong march on the commercial port of La Rochelle
Public Nuisance and Conspiracy are as old as the hills — what’s changed is the convention that peaceful protesters are treated leniently
With the Paris Olympics heralding urban exclusion and a hike in surveillance, disruption and protests mark the passage of the Olympic flame through France
Activists step up actions against arms company in a third week of targeted disruption
Government’s adviser on “political violence and disruption” demonstrates how the British state machinery perceives the left in general and anarchists in particular
Alarm at fascist mobilisation for Macron’s snap elections after EU Parliament surge
Interview with G20 defendant Gabi Müller from Berlin
Kae Tempest, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Peter Gelderloos will be among the performers and speakers at this year’s big anarchist get-together.
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
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.
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,
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.
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