Arrests outside Parliament risk centring liberal freedoms instead of Palestinian survival ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Its 9pm, last Saturday (6 September).
Proscription Action: It’s magnificent, but it’s not war
Tag: Repression
Mass defiance of Palestine Action ban “will not be silenced” by home raids
Defend Our Juries say 1,000 people signed up for Saturday’s mass disobedience in London ~ Scott Harris ~ Defend Our Juries (DOJ) has pledged the “largest ever day of defiance” of the Palestine Action ban this Saturday, after seven key members were arrested in home raids by counter-terrorism police.
Italy: Eviction of historic Leoncavallo social centre in Milan
Far-right national government pushed for the surprise eviction despite ongoing talks with municipality ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Police in Milan, Italy this morning (21 August) evicted the Leoncavallo occupied social centre, one of the most longstanding spaces of the Italian autonomous left.
US: Community resistance to forced disappearances
From LA streets to Salvadorian prisons, the US escalates its war on migrants ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ On the streets of Los Angeles, California earlier this summer, several masked and armed men attempted to kidnap a street vendor in broad daylight.
Beyond civil disobedience: Why the Palestine Action ban demands an even bolder response
The state’s crackdown on arms trade protests shows moral pressure is no longer enough—it’s time to target the war machine at its source ~ Kevin Blowe ~ As perhaps it was intended to, the 5 July ban on Palestine Action—the protest group targeting Britain’s complicity in arming Israel, especially through Israeli-owned Elbit Systems UK—has created
Mass arrests at Parliament Square: Is change finally arriving?
Everyone knows it is too late—but if anything can be salvaged, it’s the knowledge that the people are showing no signs of backing down ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Up through Westminster tube station, onto the bustling, sun-drenched street, and a smell of stale fat, over to the golden facade of the House of Commons, propped
Police raid anti-fascist youth camp in Austria
Solidarity groups and Slovenian government calling for investigation of the provocative operation at resistance memorial site ~ Joseph King ~ On Sunday 27 July, Austrian police raided an anti-fascist youth camp held at the Peršman Homestead in a remote area of the state of Carinthia.
Italy: Mass actions against TAV high-speed railway
Over 10,000 marched, protesters broke into three sites and destroyed construction materials and vehicles ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Around ten thousand protesters marched in Susa Valley, Italy on Saturday 26 July against the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail line (TAV).
Authoritarianism with a LinkedIn profile
The arrest of Audrey White starkly illustrates the bankruptcy of mainstream politics in Britain ~ punkacademic ~ Many people on Merseyside know Audrey White: a veteran left-wing activist of decades’ standing, she famously confronted a visiting Keir Starmer in 2022, lambasting him for expelling left-wing Labour members and writing for The Sun.
German state repression of Palestine solidarity “comparable to authoritarian regimes”
Activists resist campaign to criminalise non-violent resistance to the Gaza genocide ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ In the early hours of 16 July, police banged on Manar’s apartment door.
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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.
