ANews Podcast 448 – 1.2.26
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 The Independent
If your partnership needs refreshing, you might find that ditching labels, structures and hierarchies is one way of breathing new life into it, says Olivia Petter
From Counterpunch by David S. D’Amato
I have a few thoughts in response to what seems like an uptick in interest in Dorothy Day (1897-1980) in recent years.
From The Irish Times by Derek Scally - Sun Jan 04 2026
A collective calling itself ‘Volcano Group’ claimed responsibility for the attack near a gas power station
Six days have passed since the beginning of this wave of protests, and today, January 3, 2026, the intensity and scope of the clashes in several cities showed that the regime, with all its means of repression... has not been able to clear the streets. Gatherings continued in Tehran, Karaj, Shiraz, Mashhad, Tabriz, Qom, Hamedan, Kermanshah, Ilam, Shahrekord, Yazd, Qazvin, Arak, Bushehr, Babol, Anzali, Khorramabad, Aligudarz, Ramhormoz, and dozens of smaller cities. Protesters built barricades, seized security forces motorbikes, burned regime propaganda banners, stormed police stations...
From No Selves, No Masters
Love it or hate it, the “Circle A” — scrawled on walls, carved in bathroom stalls, printed on punk merchandise or painted on rebellious banners — is among the most widely recognized symbols of anarchy and anarchism. Learning to spray paint the circle A as a teenager is every bit as joyful and liberating (and annoying to adults) as learning the word “no” is for a toddler. Later on, if we grow up into “serious anarchists”, we might learn that it has a deeper symbolic meaning: the circle is not just a circle, but an “O”. “Anarchy is the mother of Order”, they say. Whether or not this is actually true is less relevant than the meaning it holds for militancy1. We’re not just here to rebel and destroy anymore: we want to build a new world in the ashes of the old. No more juvenile “fuck you” graffiti politics for us, thanks.
From Anarchist Black Cross Dresden
In mid November GLS bank got in touch with the association that was helping us to collect donations. Their bank account got canceled immediately. The bank didn’t give any reason apart from mentioning a certain rule that allows them to cancel the bank account for “important reasons”.
From Human Iterations by William Gillis
It’s 2015 and I’m sitting on a couch with my roommate, gazing down on another Fuck The Police riot turned street party. The day has been long, the bars have already closed, and we’re both back in our rent-controlled collective house in San Francisco’s Lower Haight, too exhausted to go out and join the rowdies blaring music beneath our window.
From Athens Indymedia
Georgia, our friend, our comrade, was a free person. She spent her entire life on the streets outside of social norms. She fought injustice in every aspect. Anarchist and transgressive, far from logics of guilt-innocence, always next to anyone who struggles, anyone who society marginalizes.
From Anarchist Front
The continuous devaluation of the currency in Iran is not simply an economic crisis, but rather a sign of the collapse of a political-economic order that has eroded and destabilized social life in favor of the accumulation of power and rent. The devaluation of the currency has directly led to the organized transfer of poverty, insecurity, and instability to the lower and middle classes, turning everyday life into a battle for survival.
From Ignited In Dark: Against The Dominant Idea by Wulfinna
Fragmentary Takeaways – Dec 31 2025
From PDX Anti-Repression Committee
Operating from within the u.s. empire, there are many contradictions that run rampant in our movements — so much so that sometimes, the movements we foolishly perceive as posing a challenge to the state are actually reinforcing its violence.
From Act for Freedom Now!
Athens, (Greece) we are happy! to announce, Anarchist comrade Sakkas Kostas is free back to the streets after more from 7 years in koridallos prison.
From MTL Counter-info
Tuesday night, two anarchists visited Royal West High School. One person graffitied “Suspension?? Fight BACK” while another smashed the entrance windows with a hammer. Royal West suspended one of their indigenous students who is Kanien’kehà:ka from Kahnawà:ke for posting “fuck Israel holy shit” on their personal Instagram.
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation
This statement was prepared and signed by member organizations of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination – Coordinación Anarquista LatinoAmerica (CALA). Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) was invited to sign the statement as a sibling organization.