ANews Podcast 481 – 8.28.26
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 Sabot Media
This interview was conducted in writing with Autistici/Inventati following its August 26, 2026 designation by the United States under Executive Order 13224.
From Channel Zero Network (The Final Straw Radio)
The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, we’ve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.
From No Gods No Masters Network - August 17, 2026
Over the past several weeks, we have published two transparency notices concerning an FBI investigation related to AnarchistFederation.net, a website hosted on infrastructure maintained by No Gods No Masters Network:
From libcom.org
Some of us had known him in the early 1970s in the Groupe Louise Michel, of which he was a member. It must be said that this period, the immediate aftermath of May '68, attracted a whole generation of young people to the Anarchist Federation. Thierry was one of them: an anarchist (more precisely, anarcho-syndicalist), an anti-militarist and conscientious objector (working for the National Forestry Office in Barcelonnette), an anti-Francoist and member of the Free Spain Committee…
From Homeland Security Today by Matthew Turner & Jordyn Abrams, July 20, 2026
In recent months, there have been growing concerns about anti-tech extremism. Groups such as the Zizians have attracted significant media attention, as have threats against data centers and attacks against public figures, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Researchers such as Mauro Lubrano have noted a steady escalation of anti-tech violence that is likely to significantly worsen.
from The Dugout
What does it mean to develop discipline without reproducing authoritarianism? How can study become a form of preparation? How can remembering political prisoners change the way we understand incarceration happening around us now?
From Montreal Counter-Information
If, for a fleeting moment, we were to pry our attention away from the glow of our screens, we could set out on a path, eyes wide open, through the city—a path that would shatter any illusion of social cohesion.
From Autistici/Inventati
On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, through OFAC - the bureau that manages and enforces economic and financial sanctions -, sanctioned Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian collective that since 2001 has provided digital infrastructure to movements and activists: email, hosting, mailing lists, chat, videoconferencing, streaming, and services related to privacy and anonymity. Washington designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), claiming that it provided financial, material or technological support to terrorism and to organizations already under sanctions. A/I rejects the accusations and maintains that its work consists of providing tools for digital self-defense and infrastructure for the freedom of communication.
Submitted via email
Our comrades on the ground report that legal aid institutions—including LBH and YLBHI—have been reluctant to actively represent detainees arrested in protests labeled as “anarchist,” unless they are already viral or well-known activists.
From Distinctively Dionysian
Bacchus Editions is now the publisher of Backwoods Journal: A Journal of Anarchy & Wortcunning.
Ah, a lovely thing for Bacchus, vraiment. The Bacchus group has been reading Backwoods since it first appeared in 2018, et it has lived among our bookshelves, conversations, arguments et various wanderings since.
We deny all allegations included in the statements, while we strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations.
Source ziq: https://raddle.me/wiki/generative_ai
I've been seeing more and more people insist "AI is just a tool, capitalism is the problem"...
OK. A tool for whom though?
AI wasn't invented when capitalism went hunting for a “neutral” technology to misuse for evil. Capital develops and deploys destructive technologies according to capital's own needs: extraction, commodification, surveillance, control, and making everyone more economically useful and subservient to the ruling class.
From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (fb)
It is with a heavy heart that we share that our friend and comrade Nikola Shterjov passed away yesterday. Shterjov was one of the most experienced, solidary and persistent fighters for freedom and a better world, with all the initiatives, protests, actions and organizations that he was a part of in the last decade and more. Many walls throughout Skopje will forever bear his messages.
From Sabot Media
For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends.