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Bristol, Britain’s Flagship ‘Smart City’

July 3, 2016 ideas, news

We repost this important and informative article from the 3rd issue of Return Fire magazine. There is lots more of interest in the magazine too: a volume packed “full of news, theory, poetry and antagonism”, plus an extended companion essay on Colonisation which we found thoughtful reading. You can … Continue reading

New UK Counter-Info Project: ‘Fire On The Horizon’

July 2, 2016 ideas, propaganda

From Fire on the Horizon Moving towards the next ‘Fire On The Horizon’ To begin with we are not interested in long introductions, we are against over worded texts that wreak of posturing and not enough praxis! The project ‘Fire on the Horizon’ will speak for itself, disseminating counter-info that … Continue reading

Hack Back!: Interview with an anarchist hacker-expropriator

June 10, 2016 ideas, news

From B.Meson / medium.com Hack Back! — Discussions on hacking, Anarchism and secure OSs UPDATE: Based on feedback from HB! I have made minor revisions to this document. Multi-word edits will be annotated with an asterisk(*). Minor revisions will not. I recently had an exchange with the notorious hacker who hacked Hacking … Continue reading

On solidarity and the syrian revolution

June 10, 2016 ideas, news

From the hamilton instutute. This is a useful article in English on the lesser known story of the revolutionary struggles in Syria beyond Rojava … and on the thorny question of the difference between critical solidarity and cheerleading for authoritarian forces like the PKK. (graffiti from Aleppo: “We Will Not … Continue reading

Berlin: on the struggle in “rebellious Nordkiez”, the anti-gentrification “dangerzone”

May 31, 2016 ideas, news

Via Linksunten Indymedia and Act for Freedom Now. This is a very informative and important text for all of us thinking about how to fight against gentrification and repression and for spaces in our cities that break the control of states and markets … and about the role squats can … Continue reading

In continuation: a poem for insurrectionary comrade Mauri

May 29, 2016 ideas

by Tsakalaki for Punky Mauri …in continuation Mauricio I don’t profess to know you either your moment of pain in Santiago that night amongst stillness just before the storm returns in the eye of the conflict we are both blown within your poems exposed the wound once more opening the … Continue reading

Greece: Exarchia calling — text from new international squat

May 14, 2016 ideas, news

Via Squat.net (NB: on the topic of squats and the anarchist space in Greece, see also the call-outs for “No Nations! Squat the World!” ) This statement is based on our personal and shared collective experience of the current situation of anarchist struggle in Greece, Athens and Exarchia. We did … Continue reading

Torino, Italy: Burn the borders every day! 3 days of discussion and struggle

May 14, 2016 ideas, news

From Macerie via Contra Info BURN BORDERS EVERY DAY THREE DAYS OF DISCUSSION AND STRUGGLE From Idomeni to Calais, images of people trying to pass borders more and more insuperable get to us. At the same time the European states are reorganising the internal management of immigration through new sorting … Continue reading

Call for action from Greece: Fuck Nations, Squat the World!

May 8, 2016 ideas, news

Below see a call for coordinated anarchist action worldwide, sent out at the start of May from the Papamixelaki squat and other anarchist groups in Greece, originally published on Athens Indymedia. Since the initial call, anarchist comrades in the Greek prisons have added texts in support of this proposal, which … Continue reading

Complaint from the National Union of Journalists

May 3, 2016 ideas

Confronting photographers on a demo in Nantes

A while ago we published an article, sent to us anonymously, entitled “In Defence of Smashing Cameras“. The self-proclaimed (??) National Union of Journalists (NUJ) did not like this article, and sent us the following response: The NUJ PHOTOGRAPHER’S COUNCIL has responded to an online comment piece urging people to smash media cameras: “The NUJ is appalled at the recent article on a self-proclaimed anarchist website which advocates … Continue reading

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