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From Autonomies

Organising-federating anarchists in Seville. From El Topo, Nº 71, May 2026

From CrimethInc.

Reports from around the Country

Ahead of the third No Kings worldwide day of protest on March 28, we published a call for anarchists to engage with the rallies as an opportunity to draw people into more concrete forms of organizing and action, and offered handouts for that purpose. Here, we share highlights and reports from some of the participants in the day’s events.

From Priama akcia

The first ever IWA Congress in East Asia took place on 27-29 December 2025, with 22 delegations, including the Direct Action Association, in person and online. In addition to the sections, which are the only ones with voting rights, the Friends, Initiative and Contact organizations also attended. Here is a summary of the highlights.

From CrimethInc.

An Eyewitness Account

On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Five agents tackled and beat him, then an agent shot him multiple times. Video footage from multiple angles confirms that the agent shot Pretti after he had been disarmed. Immediately following the murder, the Whittier neighborhood rose up and battled ICE, Minnesota police, and Minnesota State Troopers for over four hours, eventually forcing them to withdraw.

From ANTIMILITARISTICKÁ INICIATIVA [ AMI ]

Over the last few months, various revolutionary internationalist anarchist organisations put their names to the following statement. Though itself ready for an update it was the precursor to establishing a new network of anarchist internationalists to achieve the following:

From Anarchist Barrio

In the context of the Rheinmetall Entwaffnen (RME) antimilitarist action camp in Cologne 2025, an open assembly came together in Berlin to organise an Anarchist Barrio in the camp. After the camp, people from the Berlin assembly who participated in the A-Barrio discussed their perspectives and experiences of the camp at evaluation meetings. This following text aims to summarize those discussions but as well support them to go deeper.

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

This report on Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s (BRRN) 11th national Convention comes to us by way of a member in our Durham, NC Local. Editing support provided by BRRN’s External Education Committee (EEC).

From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2025

Report on BAB2025 by the Thessaloniki Organising Assembly and the Balkan Solidarity Network

From 15th to 18th of May hundreds of comrades from all geographies of the Balkans and Europe gathered in Thessaloniki, Greece to participate at the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB) 2025. More than a hundred collectives and initiatives from the international anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement exhibited their books, zines, merch... During the festival more than 30 discussions and workshops took place in two squats in the city... attended by hundreds of participants.

From Organise! Magazine

We call it “Anarchist Christmas”. It’s not because of all the pageantry, or the stack of presents you leave with, or even the cake.

from The Globe and Mail by Robert Hough.

One thing I’ve found about being a novelist is that the profession, while gluing you to a chair for the majority of your life, can also, on occasion, place you in unusual situations. Case in point: In September I published a novel which dramatizes anarchist Emma Goldman’s plot to assassinate the Gilded Age industrialist Henry C. Frick... As such, I recently found myself with a table at an event called the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair, which is held every September at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.