2021-2022: The Inferno
From The Transmetropolitan Review
The Cinema Committee is happy to release our latest film, 2021-2022: The Inferno, an incomplete chronology of some of the major events that took place in this tumultuous time period. While not all of the pivotal events are depicted, we have included what we feel are the most important developments.
No one will be left alone
From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus
It’s been almost two years since the 2020 protests in Belarus. The anarchist movement, just like the rest of activists and journalists, has faced the biggest crackdown ever. Many activists had to leave the country, others got behind bars. ABC-Belarus continues its activity and needs support more than ever. At the moment, there are about 30 imprisoned anarchists and antifascists in Belarus and the number keeps growing.
Responsibility claim – Incendiary attack on General Post Office vehicles
from Athens Indymedia via Dark Nights
For more than a decade we have been experiencing the invasion of capital on our lives, through the neoliberal restructuring of the relations of production. The cycle that opened during the period of the memoranda has never closed, but instead the state and the bosses are upgrading and deepening their domination and exploitation to this day.
Update on Scripta Manent trial and transfer of Alfredo Cospito
from Dark Nights
Update on the cassation hearing for the Scripta Manent trial and transfer of anarchist Alfredo Cospito from Terni prison to that of Sassari (Italy, May 25, 2022)
On the Hierarch Delusion, Abolition, and the Future
from June 11th
June 11, 2022 statement from Sean Swain
Fewer and fewer people seem to be suffering from the hierarch delusion these days. I say “delusion” because hierarchy is a diagnosable mental illness. The delusion of hierarchy is dependent upon a number of irrational and illogical premises– all provably and observably false.
Spain: Cops raid and evict Lioness social centre
via Freedom News UK
In a demonstration of repressive policing, Seville cops attacked and destroyed the squatted space on the day it opened for community use – having spent six months largely ignoring it while it was cleared and made useable. The politically-charged eviction at a former concert hall targeted a site that was about to provide a community hub for challenging rampant gentrification in the city. In a statement the Lioness collective described the scene:
Their Guns Won’t Protect You, but They Can Get You Killed
from CrimethInc.
Why Neither Policing nor Gun Control Will Suffice to Stop the Shootings
Neither Republican calls for more guns and policing nor Democrat demands for more gun control can put an end to the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. The problem runs deeper than either of these approaches can address.
‘Putin’s terror affects everyone’: anarchists join Ukraine’s war effort
from The Guardian
Activists from Kyiv and around world join state forces in fight against totalitarianism
In an unnamed basement bar in central Kyiv, Ukrainian anarchists have created a headquarters where they gather supplies to send to their peers on the frontlines and welcome anarchists from abroad who have come to fight.
Militant group of anarcho-communists sabotages railroad track [Russia]
via Enough14
We, the Militant Anarcho-Communist Organization, have carried out a sabotage operation on the railroad track at coordinates 56 16’44″N 38 12’40.5″E on a sidetrack leading to a military facility of the 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Misconceptions about imperialism, and anarchist collective traumas
from avtonom Submitted by Антти Раутиайнен on 26 May, 2022 - 14:33
Ever since the beginning of the Russian invasion against Ukraine, we have seen statements by anarchists, communists and leftists not from Ukraine, on how Ukrainian anarchists, communists and leftists should not defend themselves against attack of Putin, but lay down their arms and flee instead.
50 Strategies of Revolution
From Mongoose Distro by Dan Baker
April 2nd, 2022
“I’m Not A Marxist, I’m An Anarchist”
from Deadline by Anthony D'Alessandro
The movie, which Östlund bills as his “end of Western Civilazation,” follows a fashion model and her model casting agent partner, played by Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson, who wind up on luxury yacht, the poorest of those setting sail, and are ultimately stranded on a deserted island. Woody Harrelson plays a Marxist captain who gets drunk with a Russian oligarch, reads from the Communist manifesto and sends his yacht into rough waters until the passengers crap and vomit. Talking about how he feels about the character, Harrelson quipped “the character is Marxist. I’m not a Marxist, I’m an anarchist so in that sense we differ.” Then getting serious, “I’m guy who just thinks its abominable when a super power with all this military might with no provocation attacks, unprovoked, a country that is Ukraine,” said the Cheers alum and 3x Oscar nominee about Russia’s war.
Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945-2022)
Peter Lamborn Wilson died in his apartment in Saugerties, NY last night, reportedly from a heart attack. Lewanne Jones, Fred Barney Taylor and I spent Saturday afternoon with him, filming what will have been a final interview with him for Konrad Becker in Vienna. Peter seemed no worse than usual, but of course he has been in bad health for a number of years. I will provide more details as soon as they become available to me. --Jim Fleming of Autonomedia