Dozens of injuries and 50 arrests reported as riot police blocks Palestine solidarity march ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ Thousands of Palestine solidarity activists gathered in Neukölln, Berlin yesterday (May 15th) to mark Nakba Day and protest Israel’s continuing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The series of raids, have been labelled a desperate response as State forces struggle to contain public anger over percieved corruption and incompetence.
Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state ~ Blade Runner ~ The UK is expanding its use of predictive policing and surveillance, framing it as a response to crime, protest, and public safety.
Armed house searches and arrests in Graz following protest against right-wing student associations’ ball ~ Rob Latchford ~ Police in Graz, Austria have arrested seven anti-fascists over the past two weeks on orders of the public prosecutor’s office.
Javier Milei’s ultra-liberal policies have doubled the prices of medicines and essential services, with a sharp decline in the value of pensions ~ Rob Latchford ~ A demonstration by pensioners, supported by football fans and social organisations, in Argentina on Wednesday 12 March ended in violent clashes with the police, the arrest of at least
Despite reduced prison terms, the Court of Appeal clearly indicated the end of leniency for conscientious disruption ~ Andy Meinke ~ After Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain protesters received harsh sentences, activists and their legal teams—ten counsel in court and many more working in the background— trooped to the Royal Courts of Justice in
While heavy repression will prevent any mass protests, resistance from below continues ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ On Sunday 26 January Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected for his seventh term as president; in contrast to the 2020 elections, which became a culmination of political mobilisation for hundreds of thousands of Belarusians, this round of re-elections is
Roman Shvedov was given sixteen years in prison—authorities claim suicide ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ On 18 December Rostov military court sentenced anarchist Roman Shvedov to sixteen years of penal colony for attacking an administrative building in protest against the war in Ukraine.
“No one will be left alone against the repressive campaign of the state and capital”, declare demonstrators ~ Kit Dimou ~ Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos has been arrested in connection with the explosion in an Athens flat on 31 October, which authorities attribute to a bomb-making accident.
Court reduces two Palestine activists’ sentences from 12 to 10 months, again ignoring social work reports which did not recommend jail time ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Two Palestine Action activists, imprisoned for taking action to disrupt the operations of French arms company Thales in Govan, Glasgow, have been refused their appeal for immediate release from
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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