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Bastille day in France: 721 cars burnt to a crisp

July 26, 2015 news

Belated repost from Act for Freedom Now. In France, every Bastille Day (14 July) eve and New Years Eve, now the suburbs rage and burn. Europe is a tinderbox, the chickens of centuries of oppression and colonialism coming home to roost. Burn all the Bastilles, let’s party like it’s 1789 … Continue reading

How can we raise the London mob?

May 13, 2015 ideas

5 more years of the Tories. Worse than that: 5 more years of government. A few breaths and glimpses of freedom. In the last few weeks we had some brief moments of rebellion on the streets. And we want a lot more. If a Tory government prompts more people to … Continue reading

USA: sabotage actions against gentrification, solidarity with Baltimore rebellion

May 1, 2015 news

Via squat.net, anarchist news and Puget Sound Anarchists. Portland, OR: Anti-Gentrification Sabotage in Solidarity with Baltimore Rebellion – April 30th On Tuesday night survey stakes were pulled up at a proposed townhouse development off N. Williams Ave in North Portland. This is an small act of solidarity with the uprising … Continue reading

Athens: Front line view of riot in solidarity with hunger strikers

April 12, 2015 news

(Pic from occupation of Syriza offices and radio station in Kavala on 24 March.) Reposted from 325. On April 7, 2015 following a protest of 1.500 – 2.000 anarchists in the center of Athens, riots erupted in Exarchia to bring attention to a mass hunger strike of political prisoners taking … Continue reading

Firsthand account of Frankfurt resistance against the ECB

March 23, 2015 news

On March 18th 2015 thousands of anti-capitalists from across Europe converged on Frankfurt to disrupt the opening ceremony of the European Central Bank (ECB). A morning of intense rioting, followed by a 25,000 strong anti-capitalist demonstration, caused severe disruption to the ECB. Rabble received this account from someone who participated … Continue reading

Fire in Frankfurt: 20,000 against the European Central Bank

March 20, 2015 news

Note: we previously reported that there were 400 arrests. In fact almost 400 people were held in a kettle but were released later in the day. On Wednesday (18 March) a rabble some 20,000 strong crashed the opening party of the new European Central Bank (ECB) building in Frankfurt. The … Continue reading

Mass Vandalism after Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah verdict

March 17, 2015 news

Via In the Belly of the Beast on 12/3/14 A fourth night of vandalism on a mass scale has occurred in High Wycombe after the verdict of the killing of Habib Ullah, 39, also known as Paps, after being stopped and searched by cops in 2008. An inquest recorded a … Continue reading

Algeria fracking resistance leaves 40 cops wounded

March 5, 2015 news

Via Earth First Journal New developments in a story we’ve been following for some time now. Tens of thousands of people in Algeria have joined a mass movement to halt fracking. These protests have involved peaceful blockades and marches with broad swaths of society. The mass movement has been met … Continue reading

Learning from Ferguson (reader’s digest version)

January 25, 2015 ideas

A protester throws back a smoke bomb while clashing with police in Ferguson, Missouri

Peter Gelderloos has written a set of three essays about the recent uprising in Ferguson and some of the issues involved. The analysis is informative about the US situation, and also relevant for thinking about social war over here. The essays are in the anarchist library. They are quite long, … Continue reading

“the action of the masses and the individual”

January 24, 2015 ideas

by Peter Kropotkin. Originally published in “La Revolte”, 1890. From theanarchistlibrary, via Machorka. This article was written during an upswell of revolts amongst workers and the dispossessed across Europe, which included the great London dock strike of 1889. Kropotkin emphasises how self-professed revolutionaries hardly played any part in this “spontaneous” … Continue reading

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