TOTW: Has Anarchist Muay Thai Gone Too Far? Some Questions for the movement

Guest Topic of the Week entry chosen by thecollective from Anathema Volume 11 Issue 1 Summer 2025 - Has Anarchist Muay Thai Gone Too Far? Some Questions for the movement

A quick note: Anarchist martial arts culture is a new phenomenon in the United States. It is generally a welcome one in the author’s view. Here’s a few questions the author is pondering.

After French Rail Sabotage, Some See Signs of a Murky ‘Ultraleft’

From The New York Times by Aurelien Breeden and Catherine Porter

Experts say the arson attacks before the opening of the Paris Olympics bear the hallmarks of insurrectionary anarchists opposed to the state.

Philly Fight Night

From Bash Back News, Via Phlanticap

A Report-back from a recent Anarchist Muay Thai Smoker in the United States

On April 27, 2024 during the Northeast Regional Bash Back! Convergence, anarchists with an affinity for Muay Thai held an explicitly anarchist Muay Thai smoker (unsanctioned Muay Thai fight). This smoker was however organized as explicitly separate from Bash Back!

The leftists breaking the right’s chokehold on MMA

From Freedom News UK

October 11th, 2020. A bus pulls up outside of the Tampa Bay Convention Centre in Florida, USA. Of the suited delegates and bodyguards that emerge, one person cuts an unfamiliar figure. UFC star Jorge Masvidal, decked out in a black and gold tracksuit, walks around the side of the bus to stand in front of a large piece of text printed on the side: “Fighters Against Socialism,” it reads.

TOTW: How Would Anarchists Organise An Inter-National Sports Event?

I've never come across anyone identifying as an anarchist who is opposed to fun. Arguably, fun seems to be a required aspect of any anarchist-activity, for it not to simply be reproducing workerist narratives that perpetuate the mechanisms of boredom. I find boredom to be absent in spaces of anarchy.

Hoodie Melo takes anarchist resistance underground

Over the last couple of years, we here at ANEWS have been on the cutting edge of reporting live and directly on the NBA’s most famous anarchist basketball player, Carmelo Anthony. We’ve covered stories of him wearing a black arm band in solidarity with anarchist resistance world wide and hoodie Melo single handly keeping the NY Knicks franchise afloat in the worst place on earth, NYC. Today, we’re taking a look at Melo and answering the question of – where is he now? The answer may surprise some.

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