New Future

Campaign launched to cover appeal costs for Koukaki Squats Community ~ Kate Moschou ~ As their appeal trial approaches, members of the Koukaki Squats Community in central Athens have launched a funding campaign to help cover mounting legal costs. Several comrades face 6.5 years in prison after being convicted on three misdemeanour charges, following

From Chiapas, thoughts on the refusal to walk into traps—and the rebellion to fight our way out ~ ͶÀTIꟼAƆ ⅃Ǝ ~ Erwin Schrödinger , who apparently wasn’t very fond of house cats, proposed a theoretical exercise for quantum physics. The approach is simple, although its implications are very complex. A cat has been placed

True change won’t come from the ballot but from sustained, people-powered movements ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ Two recent developments have jolted voters out of despair on both sides of the Atlantic: Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, and Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she will leave Labour to launch a

The proscription is part of a wider push to stifle dissent in an increasingly authoritarian Britain ~ Kevin Blowe ~ The repression of political dissent in Britain has been escalating for years: first against Black Lives Matter and environmental campaigners and now the Palestine solidarity movement. Throughout the last 20 months, campaigners have been demonised,

Without the promise of a people near revolt, demonstrations that inconvenience no-one can easily be brushed aside ~ Sourdough ~ On June 14 across the US and several other countries, protests took place under the title of No Kings. Organised by the 50501 movement in opposition to the Trump regime, UK events took place under

The great geographer and theorist of anarchist communism was part of a radical milieu that engaged a wide range of social issues, from capitalism and colonialism to free love and animal rights ~ Spencer Beswick ~ In his classic essay “On Vegetarianism” , Élisée Reclus wrote a stirring defense of it as an ethical and

His compelling and realistic revolutionary vision shows the preconditions for a liberated world ~ John P Clark ~ Elisée Reclus was one of the foremost geographers of his age, a major figure in anarchist political thought, and a lifelong revolutionary who played an active role in the Paris Commune and the First International. He

For the great anarchist geographer, anarchy was at play in every natural relationship grounded in solidarity ~ Fabio Carnevali ~ Reclus was the anarchist who “never commanded anyone, and never will”, as his younger friend Kropotkin said of him, as well as the geographer for whom many important scientists—including Charles Darwin—mobilised when he risked being

The clumsy attempt to silence artists opposing genocide only makes their message louder ~ Stanton Cree ~ Over the last week I found myself in the interesting position of having to navigate the British establishment’s censorship just to listen to a bit of music, watch some TV, and a film. I started my weekend wanting

On July 4, 1905, the French anarchist Élisée Reclus died in Torhout, near Bruges in Belgium ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ Reclus, after whom a street leading to the Eiffel Tower in Paris is named, was one of the most well-known anarchist propagandists in France—and at the same time one of the country’s most important geographers.

Activist’s father walking to Berlin with 100,000 signatures to “demand justice for his child” jailed in Budapest ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ Solidarity actions have been taking place over the last days with Maja T, a non-binary anti-fascist activist and one of the accused in the Budapest case. Maja, who has been on hunger strike since

We don’t have long before old-fashioned authoritarian State censorship is employed to stop us talking about one of the most shameful episodes in recent Labour history. We react to the Labour Party’s decision to not just ban a non-violent campaign group, but also the voicing of any public support for them or their actions. We

A new network in Italy is fighting against “CPR” migrant detention centres on the Mediterranean coast ~ thymo nzk & Ibiscus ~ A protest of over 500 people took place on Saturday 28 June in the small touristic coastal town of Diano Marina, where the government is planning a new detention centre for migrants. Marching

Delegates and international activists with the Global March to Gaza, Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Al-Soumoud Convoy met in Tunisia to chart a collective path forward for Palestinian liberation ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ Over the past two weeks, thousands of international Palestine solidarity activists have gathered in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea