This year I attended the WISERA annual conference for the first time ever, as part of the Ireland branch delegation. As a first-timer, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Upon entering the venue, I recognised a few faces from fellow workers that had previously visited us in Ireland, who quickly welcomed…
News stories focus on dramatic little swings, but a much bigger, slower development is at stake The organised far-right in the EU Parliament now has over 130 seats, with another hundred or so unorganised far-right MEPs. This indicates the most important ongoing change in EU Parliament and Commission…
A small gathering was held at the end of this years scintillating IWW Conference. It was for those interested in the complaints process at IWW. Combining anthropological methods with grievance sharing, we conducted a rapid ‘potato workshop’. The idea being to share problems with organizing as the…
“On June 9th we walked around a beautiful part of our city that is being destroyed by gentrification. So we grabbed some spray cans and made sure the property values of every building went down just a but by putting up tons of messages about the liberation of all life on earth. Anarchist freedom cell…
“So, that is my life – the life of a schoolgirl-revolutionary, a student-dreamer, a friend and lover of the great man and poet Aleksandr Iaroslavskii, an eternal wanderer, an itinerant anti-religious lecturer, a writer for Rul, a street newspaper vendor, a thief with a long criminal record, and a…
2 June 2024 Autonomous anarcho anti-speciesists countered the National Animal Rights Day (NARD) in Naarm (so called Melbourne) last Sunday. The following statement was read out: “We are here today because NARD globally has been founded by Aylam Orian, who is a zionist and proudly served as part…
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This piece is a little bit late to the party, but after reading the other reportbacks published locally and participating in discussions with dear friends and close strangers, we still felt that some ideas were in need of sharing. We don't wish to recap the events of May Day but hope to contribute some…
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Originally published on [link] “The flea has fascinating fighting strategies and techniques…It does not kill its host…what it does is exhaust its host and consume its blood, causing constant disturbance, eventually preventing the host from being able to rest. It makes the host nervous and demoralized…
Sunday 26th May: after nearly 8 months of genocidal horror — 8 months in 76 years — we might think that particular acts of brutality can no longer move us. The atrocities committed in Rafah show us there are truly no limits to the zionist entity’s attempts to wipe out the Palestinian people and…
The following lines are a short debriefing about a case of workers’ persecution that threatens union activity. Originating in 2017, there are currently 6 people condemned to 3,5 years in prison, a sentence that could end in conviction in the following weeks. This document is a retelling of the facts…
In the first days of May 2024, the territory known as the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in what is known as Brazil, was hit by the biggest climate catastrophe in its history. Over a week of intense rainfall caused several rivers to overflow, sweeping away dozens of towns and destroying everything in their…
A drone view shows vehicles in the area affected by the floods, in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Diego Vara/ File Photo From the Antimídia collective of Brazil, a short video documentary report-essay on the floods of early May this year, in the state of Rio Grande…
Mexico has made history with the election of its first woman president, former Mexico City mayor and environmental scientist Claudia Sheinbaum. But the ongoing human rights crisis that will obviously pose a grave challenge for Sheinbaum was dramatically exemplified by the record number of political…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Sedge Warbler, ‘thy’ Denmark. “Habitat: Swamp.” Virtuousic! * * * Patient readers, I’ve had an enormous scheduling debacle, and so must sacrifice Water Cooler to complete a post on an important court decision by the California Ninth Circuit…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The instant case for this post is the Ninth Circuit’s “Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Alberto Carvalho” (PDF), Alberto M. Carvalho being the Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), hereafter “Carvalho,” Health Freedom Defense…
It's near impossible to imagine a current day anarchism that leverages our collective isolation into something meaningful. Anarchists have retired from our positions as missionaries who spread the good word to awaken the latent spirit of common folk, and instead vow to resume our rightful battle stations…
Via Abolition Media by Mónica Caballero Almost a month ago I was transferred to the prison where I will have to serve my sentence, the CPF in Santiago. This prison has a rather atypical structure compared to other prisons in this territory since in some areas it maintains the foundations of the old…
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets…
We love promoting new ways to express your art (and defo not to cause enormous paint covering in speciesist businesses) so if you have been wondering about how you can paint places quickly, we have a great recipe for yo: How to fill fire extinguishers with paint! Note that PalAction actually wrote an…
We often get requests to print patches. While we don’t offer these products yet, here is how to use the customization feature to make your own patches. 1. Use the customization feature to create your t-shirt. 2. Add as many designs as you want on the same t-shirt without additional cost. 3. Use…
Member of the PKK Youth Committee, Ozgur Şerker, says that the only way to struggle against fascism is through action. He said “Action is not only in the streets, education is also action, organization is also an action, and these all do service to even larger actions.” Şerker mentioned that the…
Back in 2022, a Susaron owned meat packaging plant in Chile was attacked. Six lorries and part of the refrigerated unit were burn to the ground. Some time later four anarchist and antispeciesist individuals were arrested and sent to prison awaiting trial in connection with the arson attack. One of those…
Since taking office in December 2023, Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has pushed a wide-ranging deregulation of the country’s mineral industry. In these efforts, he has the support of the world’s leading capitalists, including Elon Musk, whom Milei claims called him after his election…