Russian anarchist found dead in his cell hours after sentencing
From Freedom News UK
Roman Shvedov was given sixteen years in prison—authorities claim suicide
From Freedom News UK
Roman Shvedov was given sixteen years in prison—authorities claim suicide
From Dark Nights
Full title: Chile: A death in action is an eternal call to struggle. Letter to the comrades of Kyriakos and Marianna.
Kyriakos has left us, he died in an apartment last Thursday. Marianna is seriously wounded in the Evangelismos hospital. Both anarchist comrades present in different scenarios of the struggle. We receive the news with sadness and closeness because the last breath of her life could have been eventually also the last of several of us. Our feelings cannot be more than immense affection and admiration because we know that those who walk the path of the anarchist offensive are valuable and unique in their qualities, contradictions and contributions to the struggle.
From Abolition Media
Original title: Santiago: Mónica Caballero’s Words 26 Years After the Murder of Claudia López
Commemorating year after year the death of someone who was related in ideas and practices, for many it is necessary that it does not stop being done, so that if someone dies performing an action in coherence with anti-authoritarian ideas, the commemoration of their death is a way of propagating the ideas that led to their death.
Written by Flower Bomb
This is undoubtedly my least favorite type of writing. But I want the world to know just who Vega is.
From Crimethinc.
We mourn the passing of Jen Angel, a tenacious anarchist organizer whose efforts spanned the better part of four decades. Below, we’ll review some of Jen’s many contributions over the years and share some memories from those who love her.
Is there anything you’re willing to die for?
From Counterpunch
Dave Foreman, whose vision spawned a radical wave of the US environmental movement, passed away this week at the age of 74 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was controversial, he was stubborn, but he wasn’t one to compromise the fight to save wilderness and open space. The following piece on Foreman’s foray with federal law enforcement first appeared in our book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. – Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank
The system will likely kill us for it, but we’ll go down fighting in the process. If we’re going to die, why not die happy instead of sad? Even in, especially in its hostility to the "living death" of the world anarchism can be life-affirming. But is that enough?
via El Libertario, English translation by Anarchist News
The news, in itself, is simple, though unpleasant: after forty-nine years, "A" Rivista Anarchica ceases its publications. The first Italian publication "in alphabetical order" will no longer reach its subscribers and its interlocutors, leaving a hole where every month it was possible to read a fairly exhaustive review of themes and ideas from the varied libertarian world. The story is known and tinged with legend: Fabrizio De André's favorite monthly forum (who supported it financially), the voice that denounced the "state massacre" in Piazza Fontana, promoter of the campaign for the liberation of Pietro Valpreda, always with the intimate conviction that "there are no good powers" and that, therefore, anarchy is not an extreme position, but the only truly acceptable one.
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