Solidarity Collectives: 3 years into the Full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re featuring an interview with Anton, a longtime member of Solidarity Collectives, a group that supports anti-authoritarian and anarchist activists involved in the resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as funding mutual aid projects for civilians and domesticated animals suffering or displaced by the invasion, bolstering left libertarian social movements during wartime, making propaganda and manufacturing FPV drones as well as a few other projects.

News from the front--from anarchist comrades in North-East Syria!

From Têkoşîna Anarşîst
January 7, 2025

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Heavy clashes in Eufrates region
A massive SNA attack on the strategic hill near Tishrin dam was repelled by the SDF, inflicting heavy losses in SNA ranks. Air units of the SDF (drones) published videos of 2 armored vehicles and another military vehicle being destroyed. After the clashes, turkish planes bombed the area, damaging some of SDF’s armored vehicles.

The specter of the Syrian scenario for Ukraine

From assembly.org.ua

The rapid collapse of Assad's army, which ended the half-century rule of this family in just 11 days, became perhaps the main event of December for many in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government praises the victory of the pro-Turkish forces as a brilliant victory over Russia, despite the fact that it itself increasingly risks repeating the fate of the deposed dictator.

Syria: “We carry a new world on our hearts!”

From Têkoşîna Anarşîst
December 7, 2024

The regime has fallen, the war continues.

The revolutionary dreams of millions of Syrians that flooded the streets in 2011 has finally become reality: the regime has fallen. After decades of Assad’s dynasty, today we woke up in a Syria without functional central government. The Syrian State has collapsed.

The Fall of Assad, the Future of Syria

by Peter Gelderloos
Dec 8, 2024

As we wait to hear if Bashar al-Assad has already fled Damascus or fallen to a coup, here are a few thoughts about what might come next. Syria may well prove to be a linchpin of West Asia, as the civil war of 2012-2018 has suddenly reignited. Just two weeks after a surprise offensive in the northwest of the country by Sunni fundamentalists, all of Assad’s many enemies are sweeping the country and by tomorrow morning his regime may have definitively collapsed.

We are not afraid of ruins!

From Têkoşîna Anarşîst, December 3, 2024

More than five years ago SDF brought the caliphate of ISIS to an end. Now, with the new offensive of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, we risk a rebirth of their atrocities. HTS has united many jihadist groups with ex-fighters of the caliphate in their ranks. Recently they started a big offensive, breaking through the seige of Idlib and making the Syrian Arab Army collapse. Aleppo has been the first big city they captured, seizing big amounts of advanced weapons left behind by regime soldiers.

Anarchism on the periphery: struggle under emigration and war

From Pramen

This text was written by a small group of Russian anarchists. We are not in Russia and are actively engaged in revolutionary struggle in another country.In this article we examine the current situation of the anarchist movement in the Russian Federation and in emigration, draw conclusions about its readiness for revolutionary events, and share our thoughts on what should be done now.

About an Antimilitarist Meeting in Prague in May 2024

From TŘÍDNÍ VÁLKA

Original title: [AW2024] About an Antimilitarist Meeting in Prague in May 2024, the Action Week

Since the beginning of the invasion/aggression of the Russian armed forces in the Ukraine – although the conflict there has not been going on since 2022, but since 2014 –many groups, parties, organizations, initiatives, individuals of the radical left of capital have, whether formally or informally and according to their position/theory/ideology, rallied to one of the warring parties and justified this war. This means to ideologically justify and defend the interests of one faction of capital.

Destabilization of Russia as a way to freedom in Belarus

From Pramen

If you ask Belarusian anarchists today what they think about Russian society and the Russian anarchist movement in particular, you are unlikely to hear positive responses. And although the gap between the movements in BUR (Belarus, Ukraine, Russia) existed before 2022 and even before 2014, once the full-scale invasion began, the differences in priorities had a very strong impact on inter-regional relations. I don’t want to offend anyone, but the anarchist movement in the Russian Empire today is in a complete shambles.

The Left and the Israeli/Palestine Wars

Review of Michael Fischbach, The Movement and the Middle East; How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left

by Wayne Price

A major issue motivating the U.S. left at this time is the Israeli/Palestine war, specifically Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. Even the environmental-climate justice movement has been eclipsed for the time. There are other disasters in the world, such as in Sudan or Haiti, but the U.S.—our government—is not directly and immediately supporting the aggressors in those cases, financially, politically, and militarily. It is in Gaza.

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