How Anarchists Helped Build Up Free Speech
From New York Times by By Sam Tanenhaus
As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.
From New York Times by By Sam Tanenhaus
As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.
From Autonomies
The scandal that is Donald Trump’s administration – from the gutting and/or paralysing of federal government agencies, justified in the name of eliminating and controlling government waste of public monies due to indulgent, corrupt government workers and government policies, to budget plans for rampant privatisation and parallel tax benefits for the private companies that will substitute for government agencies, to an ideological war against the already modest US “welfare state”, to mass racist deportations, to a foreign policy driven by a logic of “strong men” competing for spheres of influence irrespective of the resulting human sacrifices – is shocking only to liberal sensibilities enamoured of the rule of law.
From Return Fire
Original title: Open letter from Return Fire magazine to the 2024.03.29-31 International Anti-Prison / Anti-Repression Gathering
We welcome this initiative, and send our love and gratitude to all gathering in Brighton with the aim of together building a more durable and combative struggle against the authoritarian nightmare of the present-day. From the limits of our own capacity, we’d like to offer some thoughts; reflections that have been born from decades of shared struggle and over 10 years of publishing our magazines with a strong presence of anti-repression/anti-prison documentation and agitation.
This week, we’re featuring four segments.
From Freedom News UK
Skateboarders have always been seen as alternative, autonomous, and anti-authoritarian. Subcultures tend to recognise like-minded movements and often work closely together, assimilating many of the ethics and traits of their allied groups.
One narrative of Leviathan posits Anarchy –described as the war of all against all– birthed Society, described as a social contract, its Order enforced by the fear of a common power.
From Il Dubbio
If the path were really to pass off Cóspito as 'crazy' in order to impose medical treatment on him that he has said several times that he wants to refuse, and if the State accepted this perspective, it would mean violating the only space of freedom that Cóspito has left, it is say, his habeas corpus. It would be true state violence.
From CrimethInc.
Anarchists Discuss the Revolt Against Police Violence and the State of Emergency
From Inferno Urbano, English version via Act for Freedom Now!
About the 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito: Those who are responsible
In recent days, a media campaign of mystification and lies has been going on around the hunger strike that Alfredo Cospito is carrying on to the last breath against life imprisonment without appeal and 41 bis. We’ve heard it all. The prime minister Giorgia Meloni, with her usual victimhood, went so far as to suspect conspiracies about the coincidence of the start of the hunger strike with the launching of her government.
From CrimethInc.
On the 2022 Philippine Elections
Anarchist Strategies amid the Dying Liberal Status Quo