ANews Podcast 453 – 2.6.26
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.
Topic of the Week - I am writing a review of John H. Richardson’s 2025 Luigi: The Making and the Meaning. The back cover is a mural of him, out of London, depicting him in saintly fashion. Larger than life, solemn face, and a golden halo circling his head. The back cover also includes a quote from the book: “For a growing group of Americans who seem to be vibrating with existential anxieties, he became a screen onto which they projected their fears and dreams.” For anyone with interest in the fields of psychology , sociology, and history as applied to religion, this is nothing new
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.
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.
Introduction to revolutiontimes.world, a collectively developed website for the revolution
Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity is taking submissions for issue #7!
We are looking for cutting-edge, creative, & fun perspectives on our current, civilized condition. Issue #7 submissions due: May 31st.
From Biblioteca Anarchica L'idea
On the morning of September 17, 1983, a firefight occurred in Milan with the occupants of a passenger car. The driver was killed, a companion managed to escape only to be arrested, and a woman managed to lose her trail. Investigators later claimed that the woman was Gabriella and searched everywhere for her to no avail.
Call for submissions for the first Montreal Anarchist Day of Critique, Response, Analysis, and Provocation, which will happen during Constellations this year on Monday, May 18th.
This year's theme is technology.
Using tools and technics to extend the will is no novel concept, just ask the crow, but the tangle of a primate desire to hammer and the ever increasing number of nails is a fair bit more complicated than that of our avian fellows. Join us to dissect these desires, and discuss the various anarchist relationships to, or assessments of, technology.
From Free Range Egghead by Andrew McLaverty-Robinson
Anarchism, degrowth, and food sovereignty: exploring overlaps and tensions, by Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Degrowth Journal 3, 2025.
This article tries to show the ways in which anarchism is both useful and not useful for the two related fields of degrowth and food sovereignty. These are both broadly speaking ecological movements/issues.
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation
Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s External Education Committee (BRRN – EEC) reached out to Jordan for a brief chat on these topics and more.
From &&& by Noor Ben-Ami
For the better part of this 21st century, we have all been expected to come to terms with what is essentially a lie—that the international art world is a place representative of moral superiority, of a heightened way of being, a place where utopias can be imagined (then abandoned), and activism comes at no personal cost.
Analyst says violence 'not that dissimilar to what you see in the US at times,' points to Seattle and Portland
From Act for Freedom Now! - London, UK
Original title: "“While they call for peace, we call for fuck everything!” poster in solidarity with the Indonesian anarchists"
The struggle of the Indonesian anarchists breaks through borders and prison walls. May every revolt go all the way. Insurrection everywhere!
From Fifth Estate #417, Winter 2025
A review of Down By Law: Criminalization, Solidarity and Survival in Europe Edited by the CrimScapes Research Group. PM Press/Kairos, 2025
Graphic novels (GNs) and anthologies very often effect personal experiences, and for that matter, the non-fiction shelf is comparatively thin. The GN treatment of homeless and semi-homeless people, even amidst the world-wide explosion of that hard-hit slice of humanity, remains almost invisible.
From Umanità Nova
A few days after his 79th birthday, long-time partner and friend Gianpiero Bottinelli passed away at his home. After completing an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk, in 1970 he moved with his family to Lausanne to obtain a diploma in social work, a profession he would pursue until retirement. In Lausanne, he attended and participated in the activities of the International Centre for Research on Anarchism (CIRA), where he met Marie-Christine Mikhaïlo and Marianne Enckell. In 1972, he was among the organizers of the commemoration of the Anti-Authoritarian International in Saint-Imier.