In memory of Giovanni Stiffoni (1974-2024)

From Umanità Nova
November 26, 2024

A historian in love with Rio and Anarchy

We join the family and comrades of Rio de Janeiro in mourning the premature and sudden passing of Giovanni Stiffoni on November 6, 2024 at the age of fifty. Originally from Milan and a citizen of the world, Giovanni was a fervent anarchist activist, researcher and historian of refined qualities, a free-spirited man, traveler and cheerful storyteller, who found in Rio a place where he felt at home in the last ten years of his life.

Joan Busquets Vergés, the last Catalan Maquis

From Memoria Libertaria
November 30, 2024

During this November, Joan Busquets, “El Senzill” visited the Spanish State to present his claim as a victim of Francoism.

In this post you can find the chronicle of the event and the recording at the FAL (Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo) on the 19th, the press conference in Barcelona, and a conversation between him and the historian and researcher Dolors Marín.

Report on activities during the Week Against Non-Payment of Wages

From Priama akcia
December 2, 2024

Report on activities during the International Week Against Non-Payment of Wages

In the third week of October, we have been highlighting the phenomenon of non-payment of wages for several years. This year, member sections and organizations close to the International Workers' Association (MAP) organized perhaps the most diverse forms of activities to date between October 14-20 - public meetings, pickets, discussion meetings and workshops, but also hanging banners, distributing thematic publications, stickers and posters in the streets, or sharing information about non-payment of wages in the online space.

Breyten Breytenbach: Cosmopolitan anarchist from the Boland

From Mail & Guardian
November 28, 2024

I received the news that Breyten Breytenbach had died on Sunday. That evening we drove up from Dikeni (Alice), where we live, to Hogsback. With me were my wife Irma and our friend Vangile, on a visit from Tshwane.

On our way up the Amathole Mountains, we listened to Breytenbach’s spoken-word album Lady One. His Buddhist chants sounded as if they somehow belonged to the green hills and villages of the Eastern Cape.

Claire Auzias (1951-2024): A Teenager's Dream on a Spring Day

From Redes Libertarias & CIRA
August 7, 2024

That Friday, May 3, 1968, the police broke into the Sorbonne University, in whose courtyard several hundred students equipped to fight against the fascists had gathered. The repercussions are well known: not only did the rage explode in the vicinity of the university with an impressive and spontaneous street outburst, but the echo of that revolt spread to various parts of French territory.

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.

The Accidental Anarchist Laurent Casas

From the transmetropolitan review

A veil exists between the world above and the realms that are below; and shadow came into being beneath the veil; and that shadow became matter; and that shadow was projected apart. And what she had created became a product in the matter, like an aborted fetus. And it assumed a plastic form molded out of shadow, and became an arrogant beast resembling a lion.

CIRA Activity Report

From Centre International de Recherches sur l’Anarchisme
Bulletin du CIRA #80, Spring 2024

Activity Report 2023

If we squint at its somewhat repetitive nature, and a certain proclivity to make item lists, this activity report provides us with a chance to realize that the past year was more eventful than we remember, in the stream of routine and unforeseen events, of racing to deal with urgent matters while also considering long-term goals…

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