US anarchists paid tribute today to Will Van Spronsen, who was killed while carrying out a raid against a migrant concentration camp in Tacoma, Washington State.
Anarchist first to be killed fighting US concentration camps
Tag: USA
From eXile to Dirtbag: Edgelord geopolitics and the rise of “National Bolshevism”
Alexander Reid Ross takes an in-depth look at the genesis of the new Red fascism as it metastasized in Russia and spread to the alt right in the US.
Why and how Trump is about to get worse than ever
I didn’t stay up all night awaiting news of the US mid-term elections but I did take a look at the results when I got up.
The Unmasking Antifa Act: Behind the Mask of History
On the 86th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street where anti-fascist Londoners fought and stopped fascists marching through the primarily Jewish section of East London, it’s important to know the history of anti-fascism and the current surge in fascism.
USA: hundreds of people attend Anti-Columbus Day Tour at American Museum of Natural History
On Monday, around a thousand activists and artists gathered for the third annual Anti-Columbus Day at New York American Museum of Natural History: the fifth most visited museum in the country.
USA: antifascists and fascists clash outside Islamic convention
More than 100 antifascists and white supremacists, some armed, clashed outside the 55th annual Islamic Society of North America convention at the George R.
ICE and the Impact on Communities of Colour
In the last 20 months of the Trump administration, we have seen a continued targeting of communities of color throughout the United States.
USA: 18 year old Occupy ICE activist faces deportation
Last Friday, ICE detained a local activist from Occupy ICE San Antonio in retaliation for his political work.
Texas: San Antonio Occupy ICE camp attacked by nazis
Yesterday morning the activists camping outside of ICE facilities in San Antonio, Texas, were attacked by neo-nazis from Patriot Front group.
Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden and USA
Considering the relative weakness of anarcho-syndicalism in Britain historially, Philip Holgate compares three countries where the revolutionary union idea took off and made a major social impact in Spain, Sweden and the US. Holgate, born at Chesterfield, 1934, studied mathematics at Exeter and spent five years teaching in a progressive school.
Recent Articles
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.
