This week we are peering into the unknown void to reconceptualize the history and theory of anarchism by shedding a light on unknown anarchisms.
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 International of Anarchist Federations
The CRIFA delegate meeting of the IFA federations took place in Sofia, Bulgaria on the weekend of 20-21 April 2024, hosted by FAKB.
From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2024
From the 5th to the 7th of July, Prishtina, Kosova, transformed into a hub of anarchist thought, coordination, and solidarity as it hosted the 16th edition of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB). This first-ever anarchist gathering in an Albanian-speaking locality brought together over 250 participants from 29 countries, spanning from Chile to Azerbaijan. A total of 32 collectives and initiatives exhibited books and zines, and 18 discussions and events were organized, showcasing the movement’s all-encompassing diversity.
From Freedom News UK
Ilya Shakursky was condemned to 16 years on trumped-up terrorism charges; in the midst of hell, he found compassion from a lowly rodent
From ArtReview
James C. Scott, the political scientist, anthropologist and anarchist thinker, whose work has had an increasing footprint in the artworld, has died.
From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos
Over the last two to three decades, anarchist movements the world over have achieved major gains.
From The City by Melanie Marich - July 16, 2024
Original title: ABC No Rio, a Home for Anarchist Artists, Rises Again on the Lower East Side
Years after its demolition, ABC No Rio will get a new energy-efficient headquarters on the same site of its famous Rivington Street artists’ hub.
From Athens Indymedia
July 4, 2024
Happy Forays into the Valleys of Silence
Abraham Lesperoglou invaded our landscape, the young insurgent anarchists in the 1980s, after the Battle of Gyzi and the death of Christos Tsouchouvis. He was one of the "two trapped, still not found, as if the earth opened up and swallowed them," as Katerina Gogou captures in her poem, in a way that only she knew.
And then, there was a person who was mythical to us, not even twenty years old. This photo of the tough - but with a subtle irony - face with the hair and moustache was the only trace he left behind, as the number one wanted man for the action of the Anti-State Struggle: two cops dead in a robbery in Galati, a deceased prosecutor, the three cops of Gyzi, but also a seriously wounded cop in an earlier gold expropriation.
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation
We present here a translation of an article which appeared on July 7, 2024 in the recently revived Spanish anarchist journal Regeneración Libertaria. The journal describes itself as “a portal for the revolutionary anarchist tendency, concretely of the especifista current, adapted to the Iberian Peninsula”.
ISD analyzed six notable radical anarchist[1]movement blogs in hopes of offering an evidence-based review of the broader scene they represent, where sober analysis is often lacking. A review of posts published between January 1 and June 1, 2024, included a grab-bag of anonymously–claimed illegal activities against property including arson, vandalism and property destruction. None claimed direct violence against individuals. Researchers also found that the six analyzed blogs heavily focused their messaging on issues surrounding law enforcement, environmental destruction, the Israel-Hamas War, and corporate interests in those issues.
Full title: Agrinio city, Greece : TO STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF NATURE AND SOCIETY BY DESTROYING THE SYSTEM THAT BRINGS IT STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION BY ANARCHISTS INITIATIVE IN AGRINIO
From Class War
The devastating effects of the lesser evil and anti-imperialism in anarchist circles (II)
Why a focus on Rojava in 2024? Both because of random discussions, but also because the most widespread form of military-revolutionary mythology about Rojava has reappeared as an ideological support for an “anarchist” commitment to the war in Ukraine, going as far as to valorize the career paths of people who have gone from one war to another. On this occasion, a military commitment in Rojava is “naturally” presented as an authoritative justification for joining the Ukrainian troops “in any case”, the case being understood as a leftist or “anarchist” cause.
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement.
