Anarchist artist David Chichkan killed in Ukraine
From Freedom News UK by Nikita Ivansky
He was widely known for his depictions of social struggles in Ukraine and people fighting against the Russian invasion
From Freedom News UK by Nikita Ivansky
He was widely known for his depictions of social struggles in Ukraine and people fighting against the Russian invasion
From Centro studi libertari - Archivio G. Pinelli
Yesterday, Sunday 6 April 2025, Aurora Failla left us.
Aurora, born with her twin sister Gemma in Syracuse in 1951, can be said to have been an anarchist from birth. Daughter of Alfonso Failla and Eufemia Pastorello, she was politically active from an early age, first in Carrara, where she lived with her family, and then, starting in the mid-1970s, in Milan, where she joined the editorial staff of "A Rivista anarchica" and the Bandiera Nera group.
A tireless fighter for equality, freedom and mutual aid, a lifelong fighter against authoritarianism and compromise, died on Monday, June 16. He was 92 years old. The books of historian Jan Tesař are unique. And all personal meetings with Jan Tesař were unforgettable. His firm determination not to give in to the ruthlessness of the powerful was admirable and his enormous energy in the fight for a just world was very inspiring, it was literally contagious.
From Freedom News UK
The lifelong CNT militant was part of the Cuban revolution and participated in physical resistance to Franco
From Dignity Memorial - Brookline, MA
In Chicago, Rich became a political activist who demonstrated against the Vietnam War and marched at the 1968 DNC. Later, he was involved in organizing the Black Rose anarchist lecture series and magazine. An experienced backpacker and mountaineer, he traversed the glaciers of Baffin Island in his 30s and hiked the Grand Canyon in his 40s. He was an avid cyclist who commuted to work by bike for decades, rode 600 miles through France in his 60s, and continued biking long after his diagnosis.
From Dark Nights
On the 3rd of May 2025, at 5 am in the morning, Snizana Paraskevaidou lost her life because of the premature detonation of an explosive device she was placing outside a branch of the National Bank of Greece in Thessaloniki. The tragic death of this comrade lead to a widespread media terror-lust and so far, two arrests and the search of the cell of imprisoned anarchist comrade Fotis Tziotzis. We recognise and remember Snizana as a fighter and a heroine who died in battle, whose name and life is not forgotten.
From Freedom News UK
The Conflict frontman was one of the few who walked the punk walk as much as they talked it
From Centre Internationnal de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme Newsletter
Born in Marseille in 1954, writer Henri-Frédéric Blanc died in the same city on January 23, 2025, the victim of aggressive cancer. He was the author of some thirty books: anarchist novels, plays, short stories, poetry, pastiches and pamphlets.
From Umanità Nova
She left us a few days before April 25th. She was always fiercely anti-fascist, proletarian, and with a clear class orientation. As a young woman she had been a communist but, crossing paths on the terrain of struggle, had become an anarchist. In the No Tav movement she was a constant presence. Yet it was certainly not easy for her. One leg offended by polio, she swayed on the Clarea road, leaning on her silver pommel cane.
From Athens Indymedia
On 2/4/2025, the German-Jewish activist Petra Krause died. An international revolutionary who dedicated her life to the liberation movements of the 1970s and the fight against dictatorships and imperialism. A woman who lived through the history of the 20th century through fire and iron, paying the price for this struggling choice of hers, with persecutions and extradition requests, arrests and imprisonments in Switzerland and Italy.