ANews Podcast 449 – 1.9.26
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to the ANews podcast. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week.
From ANews Podcast
Welcome to the ANews podcast. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week.
From Freedom News UK by David Berry
A singular and generous thinker of anarchism, his work traced living lines of revolt and creation
Daniel Colson, anarchist theorist and labour historian, died on 9 January in Lyon. He was 82.
From The Final Straw Radio
This week, we’re pre-releasing an interview with James Stout on his upcoming AK Press book: Against The State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, due out early January. You may recognize James as a contributor to the Cool Zone podcast It Could Happen Here (including the recent four parter, “Darién Gap: One Year Later” December 1-4th episodes, 2025), distributed by IheartMedia. For this episode, we talk about the idea of anarchist armies, discuss those three conflicts, left libertarian approaches to formalized armed resistance beyond a guerrilla unit, some of the novel technologies and international solidarities that have developed and a lot more.
From Abolition Media
The kidnapping of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, by the United States this last week has created a divide in anarchist perspectives; particularly those living in the United States. It has made clear that there is a concerning lack of consensus around the implications of this action by the revolutionary left. To get on the same page and ascertain an anarchist perspective on this matter, it is necessary to understand international dynamics, the tradition of anarchist viewpoints, the dynamics of global class struggle and critical role of anarchists residing in the heart of the Empire.
From Indymedia Netherlands
Yesterday, sister Sati passed away. She died almost instantly - before my eyes. I'm sorry that I personally couldn't do anything for you. It was an extremely difficult situation - a UAV explosion, two critically injured people, and the understanding that you need to help someone who still has a chance... Ten minutes before your death, you gave me a tangerine. We ate it for two, and I called you a wonderful girl - because that's what you were. Thank you for everything.
From The Lawrence Times
If Lawrencians are going to confuse the Ecumenical Campus Ministries for a church, executive director Jessie Duke at least wants it to seem like a wild one. That’s why she opened a punk, anarchist bookstore in the building. “Because it presents as a church, often people are afraid to come here,” Duke said. “There’s a lot of people that feel isolated from that, or have trauma around being in religious spaces.”
From Forward by PJ Grisar
The Jewish anarchist has a surprising role to play in American musical theater
Goldman turns up a lot in musicals — what would she think of that?
From Asahi Shimbun by By HAJIME SUGITA, January 9, 2026
An award-winning film about Fumiko Kaneko (1903-1926), a Japanese anarchist who died in prison, will be released nationwide on Feb. 28 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her death.
From The Final Straw Radio
This week, an interview we just conducted with Madeleine Wattenbarger and Axel Hernández of the Cooperativa de Periodismo in Mexico and Ambar Ruiz of Radio Zapote about the case of autonomous resistance and repression in the Mazateca community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in Oaxaca, Mexico, so named for being the birthplace of the Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón, revolutionary Mexican anarchist who was murdered by medical neglect by the US prison system in 1922 (check out our 2022 episode on the history).
From Freedom News UK by Gabriel Fonten
Interview with members of Anarchist Front, a collective spreading information about events in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan
From Abolition Media - Italy, Spain
The Italian authorities are continuing judicial repression against anarchist militant Gabriel Pombo da Silva, who was sentenced to two years in prison for “incitement to crime” as part of Operation Scripta Manent, despite the recognition by the Spanish state that he has already served 2 years and 8 months of excess detention.
From Debate Me, Bro by Ann R. Chism
Q: What are some novel and radical ways to spread the true meaning of anarchy, to counteract the false/negative image that the dominant culture tries to impose?
From Anarchism Perspective
States love one thing: to make us invisible. Each of us separately, in separate houses, with separate pains until we imagine that we are “alone,” that we imagine that we are “insufficient,” that we think that “there is no one like me.” This is precisely what the oppressor feeds on: to make each body a case, each case a fear, and each fear a daily obedience.
From The Comics Journal by Kristan Williams
What is a history? Is it an account of the past? An explanation of the present? A guide for the future?
Ben Passmore's Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance is something else: A search for identity.
From Anarchist Front (telegram)
This movement is radical because it is rooted in the complete negation of any imposed authority; it rejects not only the Islamic regime but also every form of hierarchical domination. There is no savior here, no crown, no Supreme Leader or prince to come from the outside and set the direction. Real power is in the bare hands of women, youth, workers, and the marginalized, who have risen up against all structures of oppression without intermediaries, without a pre-written program. But it is this uncompromising radicalism that frightens some. The monarchists, these wandering ghosts of the past, have entered the fray with their old tricks to harness this unbridled fire for their own benefit.