We are rats running rabid through the stinking guts of London … Sick of the fractured ‘scene’ of squatters in London, sick of faux-punk venues and the fashionable veneer of rebellion, sick of the apathy and passivity, sick of housing where everyone is locked in their own rooms, their own … Continue reading
Text of one of the introductory talks at the London Anarchist Bookfair meeting on “Anarchism and the Struggle against the Borders” (29 October). The other introduction focused on connections between the Syrian revolution and diaspora and rebellions against the European border system. The invitation to this meeting asked three questions. … Continue reading
Every bookfair needs a punch-up. This Saturday, it came when Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin Kassab’s talk on “Syria in revolution and war” was stormed and shut down by a bunch of mainly kids yelling PKK. Perhaps most depressing about this whole thing is that no one managed to repel … Continue reading
“Hourriya” is a new international editing project wanting to participate in deepening anarchist ideas by publishing a series of small pamphlets. The different contributions contains experiences like the one lived in Syria by comrades from Aleppo, as well as precise questions such as the one of the informal organisation, the … Continue reading
Last year between 29 September and 3 October some comrades from around Europe and beyond gathered for a few days of discussions and encounters in Brussels, where anarchists and other rebels have been waging a concerted struggle against the construction of the massive new maxi-prison project. Some transcripts from the … Continue reading
We repost below a long text “The Veil Drops: anti-extremism or counter-insurgency?” from the third issue of Return Fire magazine. We think it is rich with insights, information and ideas about the situation we are living in today and how we can fight. But we know not everyone has the … Continue reading
From the Anti Raids Network Last week on Brick Lane we saw, once again, that sometimes all it takes to see off an immigration raid is a handful of people raising their voices. Monday 26 July, early afternoon, a blue-and-yellow-striped Immigration Enforcement “racist van” is spotted parked up on Old … Continue reading
We repost these two statements of life and freedom from the recent trial in Athens of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF) fighters and those accused of trying to help them escape. The first is from Athena Tsakalou, mother of CCF anarchist prisoners Christos Tsakalos and Gerasimos Tsakalos. She … Continue reading
As the Black Lives Matter / anti-cop violence movement heats up again in the US, now meeting escalating repression from the militarised police there, we’ve been looking to the website It’s Going Down, amongst others, for some anarchic perspectives. Here we repost just one short text reflecting on the killing … Continue reading
Repost from Anti Raids Network. This text was written by some people involved in the Anti Raids Network – it doesn’t represent the position of the whole network. A vast amount has already been said about ‘Brexit’ and the general climate of nationalism and xenophobia in which the vote took place. We … Continue reading