ANews Podcast 450 – 1.16.26
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.
From The Final Straw Radio
This week on The Final Straw Radio, we’re featuring a conversation with our guest, Ketino, to speak about Especifist anarchism and anarchist approaches at anti-Imperialism. Ketino is a member of the Tampa, Florida branch of the Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation and they grew up in Cuba. You can learn more about Black Rosa, or BRRN, at BlackRoseFed.Org
From Slingshot Issue #143: Winter, 2025
In Summer 2002, Slingshot published an article against the growing social dependency on cellular phones. There were no dumbphones at the time — a flip phone was only considered “dumb” not due to the supposed technological superiority of other devices on the market, but instead because of the things it fostered: isolation, dependency on the state and large corporations, ecocide in the Congo and across the world (yes, folks were talking about this decades ago), and a lack of autonomy and critical thinking skills for whoever was unfortunate enough to get sucked into buying one.
From Anarchist Communist Forum
On the 18th of January 2025, an ‘Anarchist Communist Forum’ was held at Kathleen Syme library in inner city Melbourne. Anarchists hosted workshops on various topics; industrial struggle, imperialism, sexism and political organisation. Drawing well over a hundred people through the doors, the forum demonstrated a rebirth of anarchism in Australia.
It is my assessment that the actions of Workshops4Gaza (W4G), Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, & their supporters in the last few months have largely vindicated Casey Goonan's October statement warning prisoners & prisoner support circles to avoid them.
The statement can be found here: https://types.mataroa.blog/blog/w4g-lhk/
From In Contempt
In Contempt #3: RICO Charges Dismissed, Palestine Action UK Prisoners Hunger Strike Ends With a Win, New Prairieland Arrest, & More
From Ignited in Dark by Wulfinna
(Written in the interest of making it clear what political nihilism truly entails for those who see it less as a chosen philosophical sports team and more as a material imperative for those who have self-respect and lack the sense of comfort in lying to themselves, in denying their own intelligence. My intention is for this relatively short text to inform creativity wherever and however it’s needed.)
From Germinal
There was a moment, during the evening at Carso in Corso in Monfalcone dedicated to Sandro Morena on Friday, November 7th, when I felt like the very walls were shaking. A seismic shock from pure collective vibration: it was Barrio Alto who had just started the right song, the one that makes the skin on your arms stand up and make the glasses crash on the table. A music as rough, mixed, anarchic as certain written walls: world music from the border, from the suburbs, to the struggles, to the toasts and the scars. And above all to the stories of those who never backed down.
From From Embers
Two anarchists from southern Ontario talk about 25 year climate projections in that region and what it might mean to take them seriously.
From Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025
Wooden Shoe, as a publicly facing anarchist infoshop, was established in 1976 and, using capitalist projections, shouldn’t exist. Amazingly, it still does. Many visitors share stories about their parents as youthful hippies or punks hanging out on South Street in Philadelphia and coming to the Shoe to learn about the system.
No Peace for ICE Agents! Protest and Block Party 1/16
From Freedom News
Ignacio de Llorens is a historian and philosopher. We met with him to discuss his newly published book, a compilation of research conducted intermittently over several decades: Life Will Shine on the Cliff: Volin (V. M. Eichenbaum) published in Spanish by KRK editions. It is the first biography of this Russian anarchist, whose life is as fascinating as it is unknown.
The No Trace Project has launched a new tool: the Infiltrators Database, a database of cases of long-term infiltrators employed by authorities in the 21st century, currently referencing 74 cases from 12 countries. The goal of the database is to help anarchists and other rebels better understand how infiltrators operate. For each case we provide a brief description, sources to learn more, as well as the infiltrator's name and pictures, if available.
From Umanità Nova
After a long illness, comrade Peppe Tassone died (November 20, 2025) at the age of 75. At a very young age, he had moved to Paris to avoid military service. There, he had come into contact with Spanish comrades from the exiled CNT and those of the ORA (Organisation Révolutionnaire Anarchiste), at their historic headquarters at 33 rue des Vignoles. With these comrades he had shared the libertarian enthusiasm that followed the 1968 riots.
From Dark Nights - 14.1.2026
We received the information that imprisoned anarchist comrades Eat (Reyhard Rumbayan) and Dena (Maditya Dena), are still held in the West Java paramilitary police compound in the fabricated ‘Chaos Star case‘, and that they have badly declined in health. In the case of Eat, severely. Both comrades have HIV+ diagnosis and are struggling to receive adequate healthcare, food and nutrition for their serious condition. Eat is suffering constant extreme pain from atrophy in his arm which is paralyzed.