New Future

Indigenous leaders and international delegates meet “to resolve and organise against capitalism and all pyramids” ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ The gathering is being hosted in Chiapas by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation , aiming “to reach an agreement on what, how, where, and why” of demolishing capitalism and all hierarchical systems. The gathering opened

Why the Phillipine left actively participates in “self-kettling”—an anarchist analysis and response ~ Simoun Magsalin ~ Every year, the left in the Philippines marches on Commonwealth Avenue in anticipation of the President’s State of the Nation Address . Supposedly, our ultimate destination is the Batasang Pambansa, the venerable campus of the House of Representatives, where

How feisty student marches in the early 2010s led one young activist to anarcho-syndicalism and a path of direct action ~ Auto ~ As someone who grew up in Britain during the long victory march of Thatcherism, I was in some ways born into a generation of the powerless. Ours was a world where popular

The usual media suspects regard Starmer’s charm offensive on Trump as brilliant 3D chess—they’ve been saying that for 80 years ~ punkacademic ~ Feudalism is back in fashion again: although professional historians have their doubts about how real that concept was in the past, it feels pretty real right now, as Keir Starmer’s liege lord arrived in

Solidarity groups and Slovenian government calling for investigation of the provocative operation at resistance memorial site ~ Joseph King ~ On Sunday 27 July, Austrian police raided an anti-fascist youth camp held at the Peršman Homestead in a remote area of the state of Carinthia. The site, itself a local institution for preserving the memory

Over 10,000 marched, protesters broke into three sites and destroyed construction materials and vehicles ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Around ten thousand protesters marched in Susa Valley, Italy on Saturday 26 July against the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail line . The march began at the annual Alta Felicità Festival, before splitting into three marches against current and

This summer, an emboldened far right is repackaging racist outrages as ‘local issues’—and the mainstream media is playing along ~ Blade Runner ~ Hundreds turned out to counter a fash protest in Epping Forest on Sunday 27 July, mobilised by Stand Up To Racism and local trade unions and joined by grassroots antifascists. Police, also in the

This year’s event in London saw more than 100,000 take to the streets ~ Blade Runner ~ Building on last year’s momentum of the world’s largest ever Trans+ protest, the march on Saturday is once again being largely ignored by a media more focused on laundering Israel’s ongoing genocide and platforming far-right hate, racism, and

The Freedom Flotilla ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists was stopped in international waters ~ from El Salto ~ Israeli Armed Forces intercepted the vessel Handala off the Palestinian coast at around 10: 30 pm on Saturday, 26 July. The Freedom Flotilla vessel, which aims to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza

The lifelong CNT militant was part of the Cuban revolution and participated in physical resistance to Franco ~ Joselito ~ Octavio Alberola Suriñach, who died last week in southern France, was the son of rationalist teachers and libertarian militants. His father, José Alberola Navarro, served as Education Councillor of the Council of Aragon during the

As the war with Russia grinds on, society mobilises to oppose the Zelensky government’s ‘reform’ bill ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Thousands of people have taken to the streets around Ukraine to protest against a new bill that would remove the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office . On

The arrest of Audrey White starkly illustrates the bankruptcy of mainstream politics in Britain ~ punkacademic ~ Many people on Merseyside know Audrey White: a veteran left-wing activist of decades’ standing, she famously confronted a visiting Keir Starmer in 2022, lambasting him for expelling left-wing Labour members and writing for The Sun. White was already well-known at

While more of a doom preacher than a political ideologue, the themes of war, mental health, and social decay remained a constant in his work ~ Stanton Cree ~ Ozzy Osbourne, heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness”, is dead at 76. Though not explicitly ideological, many of Ozzy’s songs still reflect the working-class anger, fear, and

Activists resist campaign to criminalise non-violent resistance to the Gaza genocide ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ In the early hours of 16 July, police banged on Manar’s apartment door. When her husband answered, the armed officers from the State Office of Criminal Investigation proceeded to search the flat for the Palestinian mother while her