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
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can because the cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Spoken by Carl Sagan in the first episode of "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"
From C4SS by Wiliam Gillis
I haven’t talked much about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine since it occurred, mostly just sharing Ukrainian voices and chastising a now former friend for calling for a NATO enforced no fly zone (e.g. shooting down a nuclear power’s planes). There’s something grotesque about the way slaughter can be turned into posturing discourse among the comfortable while the bombs are falling. The way that horrors in Ukraine and Palestine are so easily turned into abstractions should bring us all up short.
But it doesn’t. For two years now the involvement of the US and NATO in the conflict has drawn out some of the most retrograde campist tendencies in the Left, who seek to turn back the clock on the ascendency of the “Three Way Fight” analysis of antifascists.
From Montreal Anarchist Zine Fair
Our weapons are courage and beautiful ideas.
Every year in May, the blossoming of spring invites anarchists to reflect upon subversive ideas and practices, from throughout history to present day. Total destruction of all authority is the project that sets our hearts on fire. We are wary of political strategies, and instead propose an anarchy wherein the means and ends are coherent, without waiting for the ‘right moment’, without compromise.
Wisconsin State Journal
April 15, 2024
Kunin said he’s known for not talking about his work history. “I never wanted to sell my brains to someone who would use them for profit. I’m very against capitalism. I’m an anarchist. I’m against the government.”
From La Nemesi
Machine translated by anon without revision because Act for freedom now! and Abolition Media were taking too long.
Almost eight years after the arrests for Scripta Manent, for the second time the Court of Cassation, on 24 April 2024, will rule on the crime of "political massacre", pursuant to art. 285 c. p., against Alfredo and myself, the last remaining remnant of the trial (i), after a merry-go-round of postponements, recalculations and repressive-jurisprudential wizardry (ii).
Capital is in an ongoing international crisis, with the economic and geopolitical scene changing rapidly. Large swathes of the base are living the consequences. Wars, impoverishment and destitution are intensifying. In this context, States are arming themselves to manage social discontent and suppress the internal enemy.
On Friday 15/3, we broke the windows of the facade of the SPACE HELLAS company, and writing: FREEDOM IN PALESTINE.
From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus
In the 15 years of our collective’s existence, we have gone through several major political crises. During elections, protests, and political repression, the Belarusan anarchist movement has not met with isolation from its comrades. People from all over the world showed solidarity in the struggle against the Belarusan dictatorship and for a just and free society: from Los Angeles to Hong Kong.
From Freedom News UK
Lyubov Lizunova, the 17 year old anarchist accused of terrorism for a graffiti, had her preventive measures tightened on April 11 from house arrest to pre-trial detention. This was announced in a letter sent to another accused in the case, the anarchist Alexander Snezhkov. “Lyuba was also arrested. She will finish tenth grade in a preventive detention center,” Snezhkov wrote from pre-trial detention in Chita, far Eastern Russia.
From eroding empire
March 20, 2024
Because the empire is still eroding!
The new website hopes to provide people with an overview of current events in the radical, punk and diy scene in London. Find anarchist social centres, gigs (punk or otherwise), upcoming protests etc. At the end of the day it’s a user-led creation, so please use this website to submit your events, not submit to authority! You can read more about the underlying events platform Radar on the event submission page.
Via Abolition Media
Every prisoner, when he comes out of the prison door, takes an oath. Never come back. Almost everyone breaks that oath…
From Ignited In Dark
One should not have to be a religious anarchist to understand why the adage “No Gods No Masters” is antiquated and ought be retired. This would certainly not be to defend the existence of any deity, pantheon or religious practice pertaining to anarchy (which has no mind for any faith whatsoever,) but to recognize redundancies that, intentionally or not, marginalize those who seek complete emancipation through the lens of their own spiritual modus.
From Abolition Media
Comrade Mónica Caballero was transferred this morning from San Miguel prison to the San Joaquín Women’s Detention Center, under heavy security measures by the Gendarmerie operational group.
From L@ Granada, No. 21
March 2024
Always in our memory, comrade of CNT-AIT Almeria
On January 31, 2024, CNT-AIT Almeria militant and one of the main exponents of Almeria anarchism in the last thirty years, Miguel Angel Martínez Herrera died.
