TOTW: On the creation of an anarchist culture

Topic of the Week - The our culture of systematic hierarchy and exploitation has permeated every aspect of our way of life to the point where one feel as though they must tread water or drown in it. The infrastructure of this machine of slavery and death is now actively implementing a new greater totalized state of centralization and control. Even within individuals these prisons are being built and rebuilt. On every level the society arounds us seeks to make us expandable pieces in its own mechanized self-perpetuation to the point where every other lifeway is foreclosed upon or recuperated into its function so that not only is going along with the program always easier feeling, but we are rapidly approaching a either such diffused spectacular culture that there are shrinkly few ways not to be a patriot or a brutal and violent reconstruction of the settler-colonial white supremacist core of the empire, at expense of all others. Each of these paths does little to mitigate the problems that spawned them. In this increasing state of normalized exceptions anarchists are pulled into the universalization of this process through the recuperation of their subcultures and the rejection of the now carved out hollow paths of subcultural divergence.

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Farewell to our Ignatius

From Athens Indymedia

After many months (since June) in a coma at the Red Cross hospital, Ignatius opened his eyes for the first time a few days ago during a visit from his companions, apparently to say goodbye to us, because today, Sunday, November 2, 2025, he passed away. Repeated strokes and difficult cranial surgeries, despite the efforts of the medical and nursing staff, led to his irreversible end. Ignatios was an anarchist comrade known throughout the movement for his multifaceted participation in all its actions and resistance...

Cleaning house is mostly a political metaphor

From Columbia Missourian

Suze showed up with a mop bucket and the kind of balance that comes from living without a safety net. One hand on the handle, the other holding sprays and rags, she climbed my icy back steps like someone who had solved harder problems than gravity. Inside, she moved like a person clocking into a world that had already decided what she was worth.

Shaping Anarchist Narratives

From Anarchist Agency

Why it’s Important to Engage the Mainstream Media

Core to our mission at Agency is to raise the profile of anarchist ideas and the anarchist movement, and to influence the way they are treated in public conversation. Understandably, anarchists have long questioned the value of talking to the corporate-controlled, mainstream media since they so often mischaracterize and misrepresent anarchists and anarchist ideas. So why talk to them?

A Basket of Thoughts

From Abolition Media

Italian Anarchist Massimo Passamani Solidarity With Hunger Strike

In the twilight zone of sorts I find myself in- neither free nor fully imprisoned – I have decided to give up my daily work release from prison for the next week, as a gesture of solidarity with the Palestine Action comrades on hunger strike in British prisons, a strike my friend and brother Stecco has also joined. I know that my staying in prison instead of going to work will not bother the prison administration in the least. But my message is not addressed to prison management – whom I have nothing to say to and nothing to ask of but to those who are fighting against the genocide of the Palestinian people, alongside its indomitable resistance.

Anarchist and Antifascist Organizations in Europe Face Terrorism Designation by US Regime

From Abolition Media

The United States Department of State has decided to designate four European groups associated with the Antifa movement as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (FTOs) and “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGTs)—a move that marks a new escalation in the specific designations to have been applied to cells internationally linked to the anarchist and antifascist movement.

thoughts on maoist group seriously injuring anarchists at athens polytechnic

what follows is not journalism but the opinion of a single anarchist in athens greece. there are probably mistakes here because although i am putting this together based on RELIABLE information, i am kind of ignorant and lazy in general so i am sure i have made embarrassing mistakes. however, i am experiencing shock and wanted to inform comrades outside of greece about what happened.

'Anarchy in Greece': A Book and Solidarity project

**NOTE: the official announcement of the book with all info.

“When we set out to learn from other struggles and draw inspiration from them, we have to bear the differences in mind. We should prioritize a revolutionary introspection that takes safety and risk into account. Courage and passion are indispensable, but if we don’t account for context, we might sell our own struggles short.”

-Anarchists

The trial against brothers Lucas and Aldo Hernandez comes to an end

From Dark Nights

Original title: "After more than three months, the trial against brothers Lucas and Aldo Hernandez comes to an end"

On Monday, November 3rd, the trial against Aldo and Lucas Hernandez came to an end, with both being sentenced to 21 and 12 years in prison, respectively, after more than three months of hearings, in which the authorities attempted to use all their power to achieve an exemplary punishment for both brothers.

Sonoran Anarchist Convergence

From Saguaros & Sabotage - Counter-Info for the Valley of the Sun

The Southwest stands as both a crucible and a casualty of empire, a scorched frontier where settler colonialism, capitalist extraction, and technological “progress” converge in ritual violence against land and against life. From greenwashed data centers to uranium and copper mines polluting Indigenous lands, the region reflects the on going violence empire relies on in order to survive.

He Zhen, Qiu Jin & Anarchism

From Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s-1990s

Feminism movements emerged in modern China since the lase decades of the Qing dynastic rule. He Zhen (also known as He Yin-Zhen) was among the most famous Chinese feminists during this period, while she was also very well-known for her anarchist ideologies. Qiu Jin, while was not usually recognised as an anarchist as He, was indeed a “feminist warrior” and radical in advocating of anarchism-patterned ideologies, as claimed by Louise Edwards.

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