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.
Arrests outside Parliament risk centring liberal freedoms instead of Palestinian survival ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Its 9pm, last Saturday (6 September).
While Israel brands it as ‘terrorism’, Genoa dockworkers threaten mass action should the flotilla be intercepted ~ Santiago Navarro F, Avispa Midia ~ As the Sumud Flotilla sails through the Mediterranean, Israel’s stance has been swift, threatening to label its crew, from more than 44 countries, as terrorists and to arrest and imprison them.
Things could be, should be, and must be better—but what kind of power do we want?
Jewish radicals have long challenged the state project built in our name ~ James Horton ~ Originally published 10 July 2025 In view of the modern genocide the Israeli state is undertaking against the Palestinian people, it may not seem advisable or desirable to look at one’s own position in relation to it.
“We want Elbit Systems out of Ulm, Koblenz and Berlin” say group Shut Elbit Down Deutschland ~ Cristina Sykes ~ About three dozen activists on Friday (8 August) blocked the entrances to an Elbit production site in Ulm, Germany belonging to Elbit Systems in Ulm.
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
An interview with Anas Arafat from Plant the Land about the importance of emergency common assistance whilst working on longer-term solutions ~ Will B ~ Anas Arafat is a lawyer and longtime humanitarian aid activist based in Gaza.
How feisty student marches in the early 2010s led one young activist to anarcho-syndicalism and a path of direct action ~ Auto ~ As someone who grew up in Britain during the long victory march of Thatcherism, I was in some ways born into a generation of the powerless.
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.
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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