Introducing Freedom’s new Cultural Editor
From Freedom News UK
As the new culture editor at Freedom, I wanted to introduce myself and the focus of this new venture.
From Freedom News UK
As the new culture editor at Freedom, I wanted to introduce myself and the focus of this new venture.
From CrimethInc.
On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza
On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself1 Aaron Bushnell.
It read,
I recently listened to Jason Hickel’s book Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World while simultaneously skimming and underlining passages in a print copy. I made a prediction before I began reading/listening to the book: I guessed that I would agree with his justifications for why (if we wish to save the world and our species) we must abandon perpetual growth capitalism, but I assumed that I would disagree or find faults with his means for how to achieve this desired outcome. I was right, but maybe a little less right that I’d guessed.
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org
From Avtonom
Alongside the general decline in attention to the war in Ukraine, a so-called "internationalist" position has been visible in the anarchist milieu in Europe.
From Independent UK, February 19, 2024
A parcel bomb was placed at a courthouse in Thessaloniki and addressed to the judge
An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for last week’s attempted bomb attack against a senior judge in Greece, raising fears of a resurgence of violence by radical militants.
From Act for Freedom Now!
Original title: Talk with Legal Team of Marcelo Villaroel, Currently in C.P. Rancagua ‘La Gonzalina’
Brief Interview with the Legal Team of Comrade Marcelo Villaroel, Prisoner Currently in C.P. Rancagua ‘La Gonzalina’
From Little | Bigger | Anarchism
In this episode of Little | Bigger | Anarchism we discuss the looming 2024 general election. Then we discuss anarchist approaches to elections with Benjamin Franks.
From Dark Nights
Original title: UK: God will not save the King! Toby Shone’s coronation letter + The History of Regicide by Anarchists, Revolutionaries & Rebels
We as anarchists in complicity with our comrade would like to highlight an intriguing and amusing event that occurred when Toby was still under bail and in conditions that were no better than an open prison.
From Camas Books & Infoshop YouTube channel
A Dialogue with Palestinian Mohammed Bamyeh and Israeli Uri Gordon
How can anarchist perspectives contribute to Palestinian liberation?
From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
The DIY Collective That Built Modern Mutual Aid
Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the anarchists and former Black Panthers that came together to set up mutual aid in post-Katrina New Orleans.
From Freedom News UK
Interview with a Ukrainian exile
I want to dedicate this interview to those who have never killed anyone. Today, they try to convince us that it’s abnormal. But we must remember that it’s not.
From CrimethInc.
An Eyewitness Account of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014
An unflinching and critical account from within the demonstrations that toppled the Ukrainian government in 2014.
From The Polar Blast, Section of I.W.A. in the region of Russia about the last protests for Navalny
We, anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, consider it completely unacceptable for ourselves to take any part in political shows organized by supporters of the right-wing populist Navalny, who is sadly “famous” for his openly nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic statements. To march in the ranks of the demonstrations they convened would mean – regardless of any excuses or “explanations” – to turn into the back of one of the political gangs waging a dirty and unprincipled struggle for power.
From Journal of Political Ecology by Alexander Dunlap
Why has political ecology ignored Indigenous anarchism? While there are a few exceptions, researchers across social science are confronted with an uncomfortable issue. Academia tends towards fetishizing, even instrumentalizing, Indigenous peoples in their projects. Meanwhile university publishers crank out volumes on “decoloniality” and “the geopolitics of knowledge” that essentialize Indigenous peoples (see Dunlap, 2022). All the while, Indigenous anarchism, or anarchists for that matter, gain little-to no acknowledgement within environmental movements. Why? Indigenous anarchy means being on the “frontlines,” engaging in unmediated attack against colonial, statist, extractivist and capitalist structures: as they are often one and the same. “Indigenous anarchism,” Klee Benally writes, “presents the possibility of attack: It is the embodiment of anti-colonial struggle and being” (2022a: 24). It’s safe to say, however, that the last thing Benally (among others) wanted is more academics chattering, objectifying and commodifying of Indigenous anarchism— “it doesn’t and should not exist” to be mapped, controlled and absorbed into the grid of the state (p. 344). Then why write about Indigenous anarchism in general, let alone in academic journals behind paywalls?