Remembering Paul Avrich (1931-2006)

From Anarchistories by Tom Goyens

Twenty years have passed since the death of historian Paul Avrich on February 16, 2006, yet his influence on the study of American anarchism remains unmatched. I first met Paul in October 2000 at a symposium held at the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At the time, I was searching for a dissertation topic and, with some uncertainty, proposed a study of German immigrant anarchists. Paul responded with immediate enthusiasm and urged me to pursue it. That was all I needed.

Chronicle of Repression Against Anarchists and Antifascists in 2025

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

In 2025, the level of repression did not decrease. Pressure in prisons and penal colonies continues: prisoners are regularly placed in solitary confinement, deprived of visits and parcels, and subjected to other forms of punishment. Despite two prisoner exchanges in return for lifting sanctions, the overall trajectory of the repressive policy remains unchanged. New criminal cases are being initiated, and those already incarcerated continue to face systemic pressure.

Trial Updates of Political/Anarchist Prisoners in Bandung

From Dark Nights - Indonesia

On February 2nd, the cyber-hunting cluster underwent sentencing at the Bandung District Court. Nine comrades—Arfa, Azriel, Deni, Muhibuddin, Moch Sidik, Rifa Rahnabilla, Rifal, Rizky, and Yusuf—were found guilty and sentenced to 6 months in prison, with time served taken into account by the judges.

Death To The Dictator: Uprising and Repression in Iran (with Anarchism Perspective)

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, an interview with Aryanum, a member of the Persian-language anarchist group Anarchism Perspective, based in Iran and Afghanistan. Anarchism Perspective is a synthesist anarchist group based mostly in the region that organizes solidarity and resistance as well as publishing writings at Anarshism.com . For this episode, we speak about the recent uprising in Iran that was met with bloody repression by the regime, with internet blackouts and low-ball estimates of 30,000 dead at government hands from January 8th and 9th 2026 alone. Aryanum speaks about the posturing by monarchists supporting the return and enthroning of Reza Pahlavi II, the son of the last Shah, and the weaponization of Islam by the Mullahs of the regime and other topics.

Hridindu Roychowdhury transferred to new prison

From Anarchist Black Cross Federation

Hridindu Roychowdhury is an anarchist from Madison, Wisconcin who was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for attacking a building with a Molotov cocktail in the wake of the leak of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overruling Roe v. Wade.

Some contributions to anarchism from contemporary critical thought

From autonomies by Tomás Ibáñez

From the moment that political anarchism took its first steps in the second half of the 19th century, it has always been open to incorporating contributions from critical thought that were attuned to its own tenets and that were susceptible to nourish its theoretical and practical work. It was precisely this openness towards was elaborated around it, along with what emanated from its own struggle against domination, that prevented it from stagnating in petrified forms and allowed it to remain in permanent movement.

Setting the Wasatch Front on Fire: Introducing the Salt Lake Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra

After years of local organizing, shared study, and connecting with comrades from Black Rose across the US, we are proud to announce the formation of the Salt Lake Local of Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN).

An Anarchist Critique of Post-Modernism and Post-Anarchism

From Dark Nights

AN ANARCHIST CRITIQUE OF POSTMODERNISM AND POST-ANARCHISM

The 20th century, which began as a revolutionary whirlwind, ended with a collapse of emancipatory ideas, from anarchism to socialism, which were “defeated” by a capitalism that would mutate and transform itself according to its needs.

A Statement of Solidarity and Refusal

We stand with those who took the streets of Sydney against the genocide in Palestine. We stand with those who refused the visit of a representative of a settler-colonial ethno-state. We stand with those met not by dialogue, but by pepper spray, intimidation, and police violence. For many, this repression came as a shock. In Australia, brutality is meant to happen elsewhere. Dissent here is supposed to be polite, fragmented, exhausted. What unfolded was no error. No excess. No failure. It was the state recognising a refusal it could no longer safely ignore.

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