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...

For Peter Watkins (1935-2025)

From Autonomies

Peter Watkins’ recent death (30/10/2025) was the occasion to recall how much his films conveyed a radical sense of history, and in their very “artificiality”, a portrait of anarchic creativity. Our debt to Watkins is considerable and we remember him here – as we have done in the past – with an essay by the historian David Armitage and a selection of his films and interviews.

Dupuy, Rolf (1946-2025)

From Libcom by Nick Heath

A short account of the life of Rolf Dupuy, one of the founders of the French ORA and an important historian of anarchism. I was shocked to hear news of the death of Rolf Dupuy two days after his death. Rolf was one of the founders of the French ORA, and later animator of the Dictionnaire International des Militants Anarchistes, a huge online resource in the French language, on biographies of libertarian militants around the world. I had first met his acquaintance whilst attending congresses of the ORA in the 1970s. I communicated with him on and off, offering biographies, corrections, and additions over the last decade or so, and he solicited my own biography from me, which duly appeared online in 2010. As well as the Dictionnaire, he also was behind another online endeavour, Dictionnaire des guérilleros et résistants antifranquistes (Dictionary of Anti-Francoist guerillas and resisters), which he jointly initiated with Antonio Tellez Sola.

Osvaldo Escribano (1939–2025)

From Anarchistická federace

He was born in 1939. At the age of 18, he was drawn to anarchism, through the anarchist club of the José Ingenieros People's Library. In the 1960s, he became involved in student revolts. He was also part of the cooperative movement and the peasant movement, and became one of the founders of a federation of housing cooperatives. He was a member of the Comunidade do Sul do Uruguai (Community of Southern Uruguay), an experiment in free living in which he practiced his ideas for years, until his exile in Argentina in 1974.

Vincent Scotti Eirene, a Catholic anarchist who devoted his life to the poor, dies at 73

From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Jeremy Reynolds

Vincent Scotti Eirene opened his house to the homeless and disabled and was no stranger to being arrested for civil disobedience.

The Brookline native who became a fixture for decades in the North Side’s Manchester neighborhood died Sept. 11. He was 73.

For Gianfranco Sanguinetti (1948-2025)

FromAutonomies

We only recently learned of Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s death, on October 3rd of this year. In a modest gesture of homage to this late member of the Italian Section of the Situationist International, we share below his classic text, On Terrorism and the State, in a translation by Bill Brown.

Tributes to our Friend and Comrade, Tarun Bhartiya (1970-2025)

From Raiot Collective

I have known him only through FB but that friendship has been a very enriching one because of his uncompromising anarchism which was built on the twin foundations of a deep theoretical study of classic anarchist texts and engagement with the down to earth communitarian knowledge of the indigenous peoples of the Northeast.

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