New Future

The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae. In return, the US lifted sanctions on the state airline

Yesterday’s day of action saw Bloquons Tout stepping out of the shadows nationwide—and facing major police repression ~ punkacademic ~ Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Wednesday as the first day of action organised under the banner Bloquons Tout saw widespread protests and blockades in defence

The ruling class is no longer even pretending to justify its own laws through consistent use ~ Rob Ray ~ One of the silly things about the recent political “debate” over how poor old teen-bullying 57-year-old Graham Linehan got arrested for doing nothing wrong except advising people to beat up trans folk—has been a

It was “by no means our intention” to cut power to households, says communiqué, but to “turn off the juice to the military-industrial complex” ~ Juju Alerta ~ Anarchists have taken responsibility for a major power outage in southeast Berlin early Tuesday, after two high-voltage pylons were set on fire in Johannisthal, Treptow-Köpenick. The attack,

GenZ protests against social media ban and elite corruption become mass uprising against state violence ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Soldiers are patrolling the streets of Kathmandu after protests against corruption and a sweeping social media ban escalated to open rebellion following the killing of 19 protesters. Parliament was stormed and torched on Tuesday

Arrests outside Parliament risk centring liberal freedoms instead of Palestinian survival ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Its 9pm, last Saturday . I’m standing on the pavement in the dark, watching the arrests. Police vans queue down the side of Parliament Square, engines idling. Police in high-vis jackets wade through the crowd of chanting singing

A decentred leaderless movement aims to shut down France on 10 September in a powerful attack on the bankruptcy of Macronism ~ punkacademic ~ It’s unusual that the loss of a Prime Minister and their government might not be the worst thing to happen in a week for a sitting French President, but this week

While Starmer flashes his moral void and Farage gets a BBC fluff job, the people carry on fighting ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ For UK comedy, these days one has to depend on the promotional videos still scuttling out from the Prime Minister’s office, like perky little cockroaches. In the recent attempt to launch “Phase 2”

Erich Mühsam and Bertha von Suttner, anarchist antimilitarism and organised pacifism ~ Bernd Drücke, ZivilCourage ~ The Civil Courage editorial team asked me to outline Erich Mühsam’s anarchist-antimilitarist positions and to demonstrate the differences between pacifism and anarchist antimilitarism. I would like to answer this question with the help of Mühsam and another historical figure:

Eviction of historic social centre sparks one of city’s largest mobilisations in years ~ Cristina Sykes ~ At least 50,000 people filled the streets of Milan on Saturday 6 September in defence of Leoncavallo, the historic social centre evicted last month, and to demand the survival of self-managed spaces across Italy. The mobilisation began at

While Israel brands it as ‘terrorism’, Genoa dockworkers threaten mass action should the flotilla be intercepted ~ Santiago Navarro F, Avispa Midia ~ As the Sumud Flotilla sails through the Mediterranean, Israel’s stance has been swift, threatening to label its crew, from more than 44 countries, as terrorists and to arrest and imprison them. Following

Defend Our Juries say 1,000 people signed up for Saturday’s mass disobedience in London ~ Scott Harris ~ Defend Our Juries (DOJ) has pledged the “largest ever day of defiance” of the Palestine Action ban this Saturday, after seven key members were arrested in home raids by counter-terrorism police. The arrests, carried out yesterday (2

A coalition of feminist, migrant and left groups is preparing to oppose the annual Christian fundamentalist march in London ~ Blade Runner ~ This Saturday, 6 September, the annual anti-abortion March for Life UK will once again take place in central London. The event began in Birmingham in 2013, moved to London in 2018, and

Hundreds arrested in a mass kettle of march closing action camp against the arms industry ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Police in Cologne, Germany used heavy handed tactics on Saturday against a peaceful mass march concluding an anti-militarist camp in the city. The 3,000-strong parade had set out from the “Rheinmetall Entwaffen” antimilitarist camp