"I am no longer an anarchist." Mikalai Dziadok on prison, God, & disillusionment with ideologies

From Nasha Niva

I listen to a podcast by American anarchists. And the anarchist movement has always positioned itself as international, transnational. And so a girl in the podcast says: we don't recognize Bakunin and Kropotkin and are not going to read them because they are white men. I listen and understand: she calls herself an anarchist, I call myself an anarchist, but for me, what she says is absolute savagery.

Trial against Anarchist comrade in Leipzig in 12.05

From Act for Freedom Now! - Berlin, Germany

On May 12th and 2nd of June another „Tag X“ demonstration- trial against an anarchist comrade will take place at Amtsgericht Leipzig. The state attorney is accusing him of serious breach of peace, physical and aggravated assault of police officers in 18 cases and destruction of work equipment. This is not an isolated case, the upcoming trial is part of a collective accusation against several people. with a total of 1500 opened investigations on the whole weekend, 100 people having charges and another 100 still having open investigation.

Update about Miguel Peralta’s case in Mexico

From June 11

In Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, deep in the Sierra Mazatec mountains, there is no forgetting and there is no surrender. There is memory, rage, and a community that doesn’t ask for permission to exist. In the face of a system of “justice” that seeks to destroy the community, the response has been resistance and solidarity, weaving the pathway of freedom.

Open Letter from Komar (Surabaya, Indonesia)

My dear friends,

I’ve lost count of how many letters failed before this one finally made it out. There are barely any writing supplies in here, and when there are, they never last long. Even now, as I write this, I’m still being kept in quarantine. I don’t know for how much longer. Though honestly, I don’t expect anything from being moved to another block. To me, it’s all the same. The only thing I truly want, the only thing I keep hoping for, is FREEDOM. I want to go home. I want to eat my mother’s cooking again. I want to sit with my family.

“Counterterrorism” Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People

from Mother Jones by Sophie Hurwitz

The White House will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

On Wednesday, the White House released a new “United States Counterterrorism Strategy,” the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo emphasizing the need to combat white supremacist violence, which has now been scrubbed from the White House website.

Update on Chaos Star prisoners

From Dark Nights - Indonesia

Release update on some of the Chaos Star prisoners, plus the news Komar (from Black Block Zone) has written an important letter, which is being translated and will be published in the next days. Komar is still imprisoned in Surabaya and the Chaos Star prisoners are in Kebon Waru.

This Isn't About David Graeber

From Nerd Teacher

I think the best place to start this piece is with a simple declaration: I never knew David Graeber while he was alive. Like most people, I knew of him and, also like many people, had been introduced to a lot of his work around the time that the media kept dragging him in to say something during the Occupy movement.

Antifascism O. G. Episode 32: The Upstate Anarchist Bookfair

From YouTube by One People's Project / Idavox

Hosts: DLJ, Christian, and Marina

Last weekend we went to the Upstate Anarchist Bookfair And we wanted to show everyone who and what we saw. We also give an update on the Alex Stokes case.

A French Anarchist on the Mexican Revolution

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Between the years 1909 and 1912, a French anarchist named Aristide Pratelle wrote several dispatches on the Mexican Revolution for Les Temps Nouveaux, the main anarchist newspaper in France. Aristide was a steadfast supporter of the Mexican Revolution, even when some of his French comrades began to criticize it along with the Italian anarchists, and he never abandoned his solidarity with the Mexican Liberal Party, or PLM, a front group for the Mexican anarchists.

Eric King’s Ethics of Revolt

From Hard Crackers by Jarrod Shanahan

Eric King spent almost ten years as a federal prisoner. King was arrested in 2014 for an attempted arson conducted in Kansas City in solidarity with the people of Ferguson, Missouri following the police murder of the teen-age Mike Brown. King’s actions caused little damage — the molotov cocktails failed at their task — and harmed nobody. But King’s unrepentant anarchist politics, and attendant recalcitrance in the face of his captors, led to his incarceration at ADX Florence, the so-called “Alcatraz of the Rockies” and the last stop for the supposed “worst of the worst” in the federal prison system.

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