Topic of the week - As 2025 comes to a close, let’s take a look back at the ongoing social upheavals worldwide, inspiring anarchist actions, and the multimedia that have kept you going through it all. 2025, a year in review and the year ahead.
What have been your favorite anarchist actions, communiques, new projects, and events (IRL & AFK) from this past year? On the opposite end, is there a specific anarchist critique of things that stands out or a list of embarrassments for the anarchist milieu that happened over the year? What anarchist projects and spaces are you looking forward to in the future? What new-to-you anarchist spaces and places have you visited lately?
What have been the most intriguing anarchist texts, books, videos, music, and other multimedia to come out over the past year? Why? At risk of creating a comment thread of lonely links, add some information and perhaps a little sentiment to help readers understand the importance to you.
We’d also like to celebrate, pay homage, and remember by sharing a list of 35 anarchists who have passed away over the 2025 year:
Leslie Fish, Jorge Esquivel “El Yorch”, Samuel Paradiso, Freddie Baer, Ignatius, Peter Watkins, Rolf Dupuy, Christos Spilios, Osvaldo Escribano, Vincent Scotti Eirene, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Val Todorov, Graham Moss, Tarun Bhartiya, Mario Candotto, John Englart, Giorgos Garbis, Goffredo Fofi, David Chichkan, Aurora Failla, Jan Tesar, Octavio Alberola Suriñach, Richard Mandel, Snizana Paraskevaidou, Colin Jerwood, Henri-Frédéric Blanc, Olga Raccagni, Petra Krause, Colette Marlot née Durruti, Nikos Palaiokostas, John Couzin, Despina, Alicia King, Murphy Hoopes, and Robert Paul Wolff.
https://anarchistnews.org/tags/obituary
Prior The year past, the year ahead links:
TOTW: 2024 – The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-2024-year-past-year-ahead
TOTW: 2023 – The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-2023-year-past-year-ahead
TOTW: 2022 – The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-2022-year-past-year-ahead
TOTW: 2021 – The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-2021-year-past-year-ahead
TOTW: 2020 - The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-2020-year-past-year-ahead
TOTW: [2019] The year past, the year ahead
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-year-past-year-ahead
TOTW: 2018 - The year past, the year ahead [ether pad link only, pre-ANews crash]
https://pad.anarchistnews.org/p/year_past_year_ahead_2018
Comments
The moderators and new…
anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/30/2025 - 13:29
The moderators and new moderation policy has ruined Anews.
Such a shame.
Happy New Year, I guess.
What's wrong with the new…
anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/30/2025 - 17:51
In reply to The moderators and new… by anonymous (not verified)
What's wrong with the new moderation policy? It has removed your precious comments? Oh wait...
there are people eager to…
anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/31/2025 - 22:14
In reply to The moderators and new… by anonymous (not verified)
there are people eager to engage with the TOTW with earnest and amicable disposition, but since the topic suggests an analysis or summary of the whole year, and speculation about the next, or to curate a top 10 list of events, songs, and or books from this year, then the task is a bit longer, and therefore requires a bit more time.
meanwhile, trollish low effort comments can be deployed immediately to derail conversation. it's just as easy to reply to them, making it worse.
but in the end, they're just background noise for those that come here for the good stuff and can filter the rest.
these comments even serve as smokescreen for uh...nope now i'm just reaching...
In the future, it will be…
Le Way, (not verified) Sun, 01/04/2026 - 04:40
In the future, it will be anarcho-algorithm
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