ANews Podcast 458 – 3.13.26
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to the ANews podcast. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week.
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to the ANews podcast. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week.
A COLLABORATIVE DRAFT STATEMENT REGARDING THE RELEVANCE OF THE PRAIRIELAND CONVICTION TO PRINTERS AND ZINE DISTRIBUTORS (posted without editing and without talking to anyone who might know more about the case than we do. We would rather open the dialogue & polish in the comments)
If you haven't been following the Prairieland "antifa terrorist enterprise" case, it ended pretty fucking bad. Comrades were convicted on federal felony charges based on activities such as owning a printer and moving a box of zines into a car.
From Dying Scene by Forrest Gaddis
DS Book Club: Born of Struggle, Living in Hope: The Anarcho-Punk Lives of the Centro Ibérico 1971-1983 by Nick Soulsby
From Dark Nights - Indonesia
Imprisoned anarchist comrade and rapper, Dena (Maditya Dena) a.k.a Apip a.k.a Scoobydoomz, has been transferred to Kebon Waru prison in Bandung from West Java paramilitary police headquarters. This has finally occurred due to his charges being filed with the court. Dena is accused of the destruction of Hana Bank in Bandung, along with comrade Adit, who is also accused in the same case and faces trial. Dena is suffering with health condition related to his HIV+ status and in prison it is difficult to consistently obtain the meds, which costs money. Dena had been kept isolated from the rest of Chaos Star comrades. It is expected that Dena and Adit will face two years or less for the property destruction, however Adit also faces 25 years for the bombing of a police outpost, in an adjacent trial, relating to an action in 2024.
From The Transmetropolitan Review
Few people know that the French anarchists of the 1890s funded their movement through burglary, and even fewer know that anarchists stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. However, fans of the hit Netflix show Lupin have already ingested the legacy of those anarchist burglars, for the titular Lupin was based on the legendary anarchist burglar Alexandre Marius Jacob, head of the infamous gang of Nightworkers, whose daring thefts resonate even today in 2026.
From No Selves, No Masters: Nondominational Dharma
I have been doing a deep dive on Mikhail Bakunin‘s philosophy. The Political Philosophy of Mikhail Bakunin, by G.P. Maximoff is an excellent resource. Most of Bakunin’s theoretical writings are scattered throughout various articles, letters, manifestoes and half-finished manuscripts, and as a result his theoretical contributions to anarchism are often overlooked. Maximoff’s book is a sort of “Bakunin mixtape” which collects and organizes all of his theoretical writings into a relatively coherent narrative.
From Abolition Media by Marianna Manoura & Dimitra Zarafeta
On March 10, 16 years ago, Lambros Fountas, a member of the Revolutionary Struggle organization, was shot dead by the police. The murder of the anarchist comrade took place during the preparatory action of the organization in Dafni during an armed clash with the police forces.
Dear comrades, Following our last email regarding an International Week of Action in solidarity with the imprisoned comrades for Ampelokipoi case and in memory of the armed fighter Kiriakos Ximitiris, we write to you in order to inform you about the beginning of the trial on Wednesday 1st of April, 9am at the Court of Appeal of Athens, Greece.
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From Dark Nights - Chile
In this fourth interview, we engaged in a dialogue with our anarchist comrade Francisco Solar, acting as a bridge to spread his words and delve deeper into various topics and contexts of interest. His perspective and participation in grassroots projects are vitally important, as they break with the inaction that prison seeks to impose. Throughout this conversation, we address not only aspects related to his personal experience in prison, but also broader political reflections on the ongoing struggles and challenges facing anarchist circles.
From Freedom News UK
Second interview with Anarchist Front on repression and resilience, regional war, and internet shutdowns
From Act for Freedom Now! - Athens, Greece
For the past year and a half, our comrades Marianna Manoura and Dimitra Zarafeta have been imprisoned behind the bars of Korydallos, accused of participation in a terrorist organization, awaiting their trial. On October 31, 2024, an explosion in an apartment cost the life of our friend and comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and seriously injured Marianna. This marked the beginning of the “Ampelokipoi case” and the subsequent witch hunt against anarchists. Despite being severely injured, Marianna was arrested and taken to prison just one day after her surgery, while Dimitra turned herself in to the Greek authorities a few days after the incident (comrades Dimitris, Nikos Romanos, and A.K. were also arrested). The imprisonment of our comrades is the result of yet another poorly constructed scenario by the anti-terrorism police, aimed at targeting anarchist action and thought, repressing solidarity, criminalizing comradely relationships, and spreading a climate of fear and repress anyone who chooses to struggle.
From Space City Anarchist Organization
The following is a transcript of the talk given by members of Houston’s own Space City Anarchist Organisation (SCAO) at last years Amsterdam Anarchist Bookfair.
From Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025
Forty years after his untimely death in 1985, Fredy Perlman’s last work has been published, a second volume of his novel, The Strait, which he left in handwritten form.
In 1986, the anarchist activist/historian (and FE contributor) David Porter commented in the journal Kairos... “Fredy’s special talent was to demonstrate the variety of its political forms,” a dialectic he described in his essays and books, in which “accumulation of unequal power leads to the privilege of a few and the degradation of the others.” Moreover, resisting tended to produce its own feedback “Every major step toward apparent liberation produces further domination…”
Scrutiny is a lucidity pact. Not an ideology, but a form which we take towards all things. To our own ideas. To the past. To the numb future. In these pages the rampant contradictions and divergences have a thin veil of warfare. Even at the smallest level there must be violence against the culture, against the image, against the robot, against its knowledge and its material. Who are the last agents who can still summon this near-exterminated, irrational violence? Who can still cultivate the uncomfortable? Scrutiny is the engine, powering us towards the receding cliffs of rupture.