That night, other protesters – anarchists and others – took care of me, while police beat the shit out of us
That night, other protesters – anarchists and others – took care of me, while police beat the shit out of us
In many ways, the situation in Tigray is not only devastatingly sad, but completely disheartening. Aid still can’t get through. The communications blackout is a conscious attempt to foreclose on solidarity, a war without photos.
Never seen anything like it. We were charged at down the street by multiple charging horses and police with dogs.
That isolated van from earlier got spray painted, and then set alight, amazing how forgetful police are with one or two vehicles during every major protest.
A few days after our federation meeting in February 2021, the AF reached internal consensus on joining the Resist G7 Coalition, a network of organisations from diverse political backgrounds who have come together to stand against the summit.
This isn't about covid regulations.
It's about women not doing what they are told. It's about a display of force from an organisation which has hundreds of domestic violence incidents within it each year. It's about Sarah Everard and She Was Just Walking Home.
Jailed musician and activist Igor Bancer (Ihar Bantsar) is on dry hunger strike. Igor is refusing to drink water or eat. Today is his ninth day.
This is a call for solidarity with Ruymán Rodríguez, anarchist repressed, tortured and persecuted by the Spanish state for housing the poor.
On the 9th of January, Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was murdered by the South Wales Police in Cardiff. Communities across the city soon rallied to oppose this blatant, horrible act of racism, with a fundraiser for Mohamud's family reaching its goal of £30,000 within two days, and the hashtag '#Justice4Mohamud' quickly spreading like wildfire throughout social media.
Every moment of an oppressed person is a crisis. The economic crises of the governments are added, but these crises do not develop involuntarily. The crisis that powers use to grow, gain and exploit more; the rich get rich, the poor get poor.
Stuart Christie, one of the most influential British anarchists of modern times, has died from lung cancer aged 74.
They tried to squish the revolutionary movement before it had began, they failed.