ANews Podcast 449 – 1.9.26
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 Anarchist Front (telegram)
January 13, 2026
Today is the seventeenth day of the revolutionary protests by the people in Iran and the sixth day of a total nationwide internet blackout. According to an unimaginable report on the number of people killed in the war of the Islamic regime, fully armed, against unarmed citizens, we received the following messages. Due to the internet shutdown, this news cannot be independently verified from multiple sources.
During my conversation tonight with a dear comrade, he said: “We've already had the tragedy once (the Constitutional Revolution itself), we've had the comedy ('78), now we've arrived at tragicomedy!” I was immediately reminded of the saying, “The first time is tragedy, the second is farce,” not to laugh at people's suffering, but to see the mechanism of the repetition of roles: each generation, with new words, re-enters a stage whose set remains the same.
From Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025
Daniel de Roulet’s novella, Ten Little Anarchists, is a masterful weave of fantasy and fact, history and histrionics, ideology and imagination. It is a blend of feminist thought, pragmatic practice, and an open dialogue about strategy and priorities for the anarchist movement. It is told through the dynamic conversations and lives of ten anarchist women who strike out on their own and leave the old world behind in their effort to create a truly anarchist community in a foreign land.
Everywhere we look, the forces of domination strain to keep our worlds within reach of the death star of authority. In a new era of competing nationalisms, the Canadian state reconditions its war on the land and those who live in relation with it by threatening new mines and pipelines from coast to coast. Plans converge toward a massive expansion of the military. AI mass surveillance technologies augment the already unchecked power of the police.
From Anarchistories by Tom Goyens
It is perhaps not surprising that before 1939, few serious studies on American anarchism by scholars outside the movement existed. By “serious,” I mean an effort to move beyond sensationalist accounts and a recognition that anarchism—its movement and its thought—deserves to be studied on its own terms. Not a single paper on anarchism was presented at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association during this period. The movement itself was in decline during the 1920s and 1930s, a development that certainly contributed to a broader climate of disinterest and amnesia. Yet even in this inhospitable intellectual landscape, several scholars—now entirely forgotten—made genuine attempts to treat anarchism with the rigor it deserved.
From truthout by Brit “Red” Schulte, January 10, 2026
The Trump administration now has zine distributors and jail support efforts in its sights.
From Freedom News UK by David Berry
A singular and generous thinker of anarchism, his work traced living lines of revolt and creation
Daniel Colson, anarchist theorist and labour historian, died on 9 January in Lyon. He was 82.
From The Final Straw Radio
This week, we’re pre-releasing an interview with James Stout on his upcoming AK Press book: Against The State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, due out early January. You may recognize James as a contributor to the Cool Zone podcast It Could Happen Here (including the recent four parter, “Darién Gap: One Year Later” December 1-4th episodes, 2025), distributed by IheartMedia. For this episode, we talk about the idea of anarchist armies, discuss those three conflicts, left libertarian approaches to formalized armed resistance beyond a guerrilla unit, some of the novel technologies and international solidarities that have developed and a lot more.
From Abolition Media
The kidnapping of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, by the United States this last week has created a divide in anarchist perspectives; particularly those living in the United States. It has made clear that there is a concerning lack of consensus around the implications of this action by the revolutionary left. To get on the same page and ascertain an anarchist perspective on this matter, it is necessary to understand international dynamics, the tradition of anarchist viewpoints, the dynamics of global class struggle and critical role of anarchists residing in the heart of the Empire.
From Indymedia Netherlands
Yesterday, sister Sati passed away. She died almost instantly - before my eyes. I'm sorry that I personally couldn't do anything for you. It was an extremely difficult situation - a UAV explosion, two critically injured people, and the understanding that you need to help someone who still has a chance... Ten minutes before your death, you gave me a tangerine. We ate it for two, and I called you a wonderful girl - because that's what you were. Thank you for everything.
From The Lawrence Times
If Lawrencians are going to confuse the Ecumenical Campus Ministries for a church, executive director Jessie Duke at least wants it to seem like a wild one. That’s why she opened a punk, anarchist bookstore in the building. “Because it presents as a church, often people are afraid to come here,” Duke said. “There’s a lot of people that feel isolated from that, or have trauma around being in religious spaces.”
From Forward by PJ Grisar
The Jewish anarchist has a surprising role to play in American musical theater
Goldman turns up a lot in musicals — what would she think of that?
From Asahi Shimbun by By HAJIME SUGITA, January 9, 2026
An award-winning film about Fumiko Kaneko (1903-1926), a Japanese anarchist who died in prison, will be released nationwide on Feb. 28 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her death.
From The Final Straw Radio
This week, an interview we just conducted with Madeleine Wattenbarger and Axel Hernández of the Cooperativa de Periodismo in Mexico and Ambar Ruiz of Radio Zapote about the case of autonomous resistance and repression in the Mazateca community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in Oaxaca, Mexico, so named for being the birthplace of the Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón, revolutionary Mexican anarchist who was murdered by medical neglect by the US prison system in 1922 (check out our 2022 episode on the history).