TotW: Boredom, huh, what is it good for? (absolutely nothing?)

Boredom used to be a simple negative. From Baudelaire's "worst evil" to "if you're bored, you're boring" to the anti-sleep rhetoric (as if sleep is some kind of null state), being "truly alive" also meant being inspired, on, active, go go going...

Now, in these days of constant, low-level, thoughtless stimulation (and overwhelm), when the go go going feels hectic and scarcity-driven, and inspiration is less joyful and more an expectation, more people are talking about how boredom is/can be an important part of a creative life or process.  

Letter from anarchist prisoner Luca Dolce from Sanremo Prison

From Dark Nights - Italy

Communiqué from Luca Dolce (aka Stecco) on the recent sentences against Palestine Action

I recently learned of the convictions of four comrades from Palestine Action in the UK for their actions against the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems UK.

Claim of Responsibility for Explosive Attack on Military Pension Fund in Montevideo, Uruguay

From Abolition Media

At midnight on June 15 of this year, we detonated an explosive device at the Armed Forces Pension Fund in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was made with readily available materials and activated with a simple mechanical system.

How To Bury An Anarchist Book Release!

From Distinctively Dionysian

How to Bury an Anarchist has finally gone to press! This book took longer to release than I first expected,partly because Bacchus Editions has had many other books moving through, et partly because I pulled this one out of production at the last minute to add a full index. With a book this wide in scope, I wanted readers to be able to return easily to the things they cared about within it…

Solidarity Without Submission: Nestor, Ulysses, Ukraine and the Glory of Heroes

From More Wretch Than Sage by Roderick McMillan

Greek epics make us all Cassandras, the scenes are set in divine prophecy, but their acts are only understood in hindsight, the most human tragedy.

About counter-information practices and a warning

From Dark Nights by Dark Nights & co

When we speak, it should be clear, to show reality and not to obscure it and/or reduce it to a spectacle.

We issue a warning about suspicious, manipulative and reckless individual(s) behind the “FAI ARCHIVE” – just set up by the “No War But My War” blog and Instagram, who have been trying to contact admins and sites in the international counter-information networks and anti-repression solidarity groups in a duplicitous way and spreading misinformations and smears. We note that FAI/FRI* has been recently designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by the American administration for which they also target “Antifa Ost“, etc, as part of a hyped and aggressive move against domestic and foreign radical-left and anti-state anarchist movements and tendencies of all sorts, including single-issue unrelated subjects to anarchism.

Goodby Makamik

From Makamik

As many have probably figured out based on the radio silence, Makamik’s journey has ended. Our collective, previously so full of action, has now dissolved and its members have passed on to new horizons in their separate ways. We give one final thank you to our visitors, artists, workshoppers, volunteers, supporters, comrades, presenters, accomplices, dear friends.

G.A.P.E. Convergence 2026

Gay Anarchists Pursuing Eruption
Gay Anarchists Promoting the Ecstatic
Gay Anarchist Portal Enthusiasts

Calling all anarchist queers, abolitionist faggots, decolonial baddies, nasty dykes, criminal gender deviants, anti-assimilationist sluts, and insurrectionary hookers! Please join us in so-called Portland, Oregon for a weekend of action, discussions, action, orgies, parties, conflict, workshops, rupture, filth, and more.

Call to squatters and comrades in solidarity from Crete, Greece, Europe and all the world

From Act for Freedom Now!

Our dreams are not up for auction – our turn has not yet been played.

In the 24 years of life of Evangelismos Squat, on its liberated ground, the flame is resistance and the dangerous hope for a different world is being relayed from generation to generation. Always against authority, in the first line of the clashes of our class and of struggles against war, against police brutality, the pillaging of nature, patriarchy and fascism, the Great House is – and will be – a castle of just counter-violence and a social barricade of the city of Heraklion.

Anarchy, a beautiful idea

From Propaganda of the...

I often find that when I’m trying to have conversations with other anarchists it seems that the more they think of anarchy as politics (by which I mean the practice of organizing society, it doesn’t necessarily have to be within the purview of a government, but certainly an attempt to codify relationships) the more likely they are to dismiss me and my ideas as too radical. I’m told my “solutions” don’t take problems seriously. But I am not in the business of proposing solutions. I’m in the business of trying to figure out how to be and live as though I am already a fully liberated person. For me anarchy is a beautiful idea.

Subcultural Anarchism—a Rebellion that Doesn’t Strike the System

From Black Cloud Speaker translated by a friend of Anarchistnews.

In recent decades, the anarchist movement has been closely tied to counterculture. Many people are drawn to libertarian ideas through their affinity for punk music, and even among those outside the movement, the image of an anarchist is often associated with a mohawk and a leather jacket. Moreover, many bands sing not only about spontaneous protest against society but also directly call for a struggle against the state and capital.

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