Lesvos. Greece. A statement by some of the Enough collective, who are on Lesvos at the moment.
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Infoshop #Ljubljana: How people can understand what happened in Ljubljana on November 05
Ljubljana. Slovenia. Text from the Infoshop in Ljubljana about the events on November 05, 2020.
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Hamburg. Germany. Since the beginning of July 2019, two people have been held on remand in Holstenglacis prison in Hamburg. Together with one other person they were arrested on the night of July 8, 2019 while sitting on a park bench. According to the media, the three are accused of carrying flammable liquids and the preparation of criminal acts. On July 10, two of the arrested persons were subsequently remanded in custody. The third person was let out again under conditions. The court sentenced the three companions to prison terms without suspended sentences earlier this week. The two companions, who had been in pre-trial detention for 16 months until the sentences were pronounced, were sentenced to 22 and 19 months, and the companion, who was subject to reporting requirements, to 20 months. All three are free now, that is, the two imprisoned companions were released from prison. What follows is a statement by the three comrades.
Continue reading #Hamburg, #Germany: Back on the park benchHet Schip [The Ship]: Queer Feminist #Squat opened in #Amsterdam
Amsterdam. Netherlands. About two weeks ago a house in de Kinkerbuurt was re-squatted. The building was left empty for over a year after the previous occupiers were asked to leave, as supposedly it was to be demolished and replaced with four luxury apartments. The resquatting was done silently and after a few days the cops recognised the occupiers domestic peace.
Continue reading Het Schip [The Ship]: Queer Feminist #Squat opened in #AmsterdamWhat would an anarchist program look like? [Zine]
Every campaign season, political parties publish platforms detailing their promises plank by plank. These platforms are not binding—politicians rarely fulfill their promises, and it’s often worse when they do—but they do offer an outline of the vision each party claims to represent. Anarchists take a different approach: rather than offering a prefabricated blueprint, we propose to work things out together, dynamically, according to the principles of self-determination, horizontality, mutual aid, and solidarity. Still, whenever people encounter anarchist ideas for the first time, there is a certain kind of person who always demands to see a clear template. In response, one of our contributors has put together an example of an anarchist program—a set of proposals that could be put into effect in the course of a revolution—as an imaginative exercise, to make it easier to picture what sort of practical changes anarchists might aim to implement.
Continue reading What would an anarchist program look like? [Zine]#UK: Some thoughts on the anarchist bookfair in #London
London. UK. Hello everyone, First off, we just wanted to offer a massive thank you to everyone who contributed to the 2020 Anarchist Bookfair in London, all of you who contributed lives panels, talks and pre-recorded media regardless of whether it was made for the bookfair or not, thank you for making take part and sharing your knowledge, information and skills with us all.
Continue reading #UK: Some thoughts on the anarchist bookfair in #LondonA Call for Revolutionary Abolitionist Anti-Repression Councils
As the summer of the George Floyd uprising comes crashing into the chilling electoral politics in the winter of 2020, we face new dynamics and the challenges they present. The initial shock the pigs felt of a whole racial order flipped on its head; of entire swaths of the country losing their fear of the police, breaking out of quarantine, or out of frontline jobs, to wage a frontal assault against the carceral state, even if only for a few days in late May, is coalescing into a tightening of the repressive apparatus. The initial phases of counterinsurgency will be omnipresent; sewing confusion and conspiracy within the crowd; playing off white guilt and half-baked identity politics to nullify and police race lines among rebels in the streets. These classic tropes are waged to insidious effect by the state, by bad actors, and by those whose politics crumble against the grain of toxic critique; the acquiescing of liberalism back into itself; a state of listless deference to mild order against the threat of violence. We are now, however, entering a deeper stage, dovetailing with the election of a carceral democrat regime, which could invisibilize the coming storm of state repression.
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Berlin. Connect urban struggles – Defend autonomous Zones! United we fight! Speech of Liebig34 at the international demo on October 31, 2020.
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The bulletin of West Yorkshire Anarchist Communist Group (ACG), Rebel Rose, is now available!
Continue reading West #Yorkshire ACG: Rebel Rose issue 7 out now!Decolonizing British Columbia – The Importance of Settler Relationalities
Territorial Acknowledgement
This essay was written on the unceded traditional territories of the WSANEC Nation, specifically the Tsawout and Tseycum peoples. The thoughts herein have been developed through spending time on many nations’ territories, including the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht, T’souk, Songhees, Esquimalt, Cowichan, Tseshaht, Sinixt and many more. This essay is meant to be distributed far and wide and will hopefully pass through all of these territories and more, as it seeks to build relationships and understanding between settlers, Indigenous people, and the Land. I thank these nations for allowing me to learn from the Land, and all of the connections therein. I thank them for preserving these beautiful places for thousands of years. I thank them for never ceding their responsibilities to the Land and for the example they set for settlers to live up to. The debt will always be mine.
This essay is by no means a complete strategy guide to decolonization, and in fact leaves out many fundamental tenets, such as the liberation of women, prison and police abolition, questions of power dynamics and hierarchy, and many more. Rather than being a comprehensive manual for decolonization, it is meant as an attempt to begin reconciling Western revolutionary traditions with Indigenous worldviews, and to frame decolonization as not only the foundation, but also as the method and end goal of the environmental, feminist, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist struggle across Turtle Island.
Continue reading Decolonizing British Columbia – The Importance of Settler RelationalitiesA GPS tracker and a microphone found in a car in #Berlin, #Germany
Berlin. Germany. As mentioned in the article “Some concrete elements on the searches of Berlin and Athens for a criminal association case” (https://kontrapolis.info/586, in german), a GPS tracker and a listening device were found in a vehicle shortly before the searches.
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