Open call for solidarity with anarchist Abtin Parsa
From Federation of Anarchism Era
Open call for the protest gathering in solidarity with the persecuted anarchist Abtin Parsa in front of IND office of amsterdam
From Federation of Anarchism Era
Open call for the protest gathering in solidarity with the persecuted anarchist Abtin Parsa in front of IND office of amsterdam
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Solidarity message by anarchist Abtin Parsa to anarchist Mikola Dedok
The purpose of writing this solidarity statement is to inform the comrades about the anarchist Mikola Dedok status and also to express our solidarity with him. As a former political prisoner and anarchist who has been politically active in Iran, I can understand that anarchist Mikola Dedok is through in what tortures and harassments by totalitarian regime of Belarus.
Call to all comrades, anarchists and anti-fascists in netherlands for solidarity with revolutionary anarchist Abtin Parsa
A revolutionary comrade is in danger of extradition to greece from netherlands
Abtin Parsa is a anarchist former political prisoner from Iran who was imprisoned for one year and half(2014-2015 in Iran).
From asranarshism.com, Final Version
We will soon form the “Anarchism Era Federation,” and the “Anarchists Union of Afghanistan and Iran” will be merged into it
Member groups of the federation can join from across the globe, and their membership would be based on the geographical area in which they live and are active and not based on their place of birth
From asranarshism via AMW English
We are in a war situation, some of us were killed, some of us are in prisons, some of us were pushed to escape and are being hidden and many of us are under a lot of pressure. We should accept that resistance against state and capitalism is not the easy way of life but we have no choice: either we resist together and survive, or the state and capitalism will kill all of us one by one.
From asranarshism.com
Only they who have lost their fear of death are in truly in love… My heart yearns for comrades who can hear
my voice even though a more a dreadful and torturous prison awaits me for the crime of wanting to be a voice for the oppressed and my fellow inmates. Yet to be human is to endure the hardship of accepting responsibility, and there is no greater responsibility for the rebel than to stand with the oppressed. I must be the voice of people like Meysam, and thus refuse to fear Two Alef, 209, One Alef, and the regime’s other horrific prisons
This is one in a series of interviews with people involved in the Notara 26 squat in Exarcheia, Athens. The struggle for the free spaces here is made up of people with very different backgrounds, life stories and ideas. We aim to record people’s own words without imposing our views – though of course we can’t escape our own perspectives, or the limits of translation.
from anarchists worldwide
Soheil Arabi, the anarchist political prisoner, writes from the notorious Evin prison in northern Tehran, Iran…
Anarchism means flying forever. Since the very moment we open our eyes to this world, from all sides, a net of religion, nationality, language, “race”, sexism is thrown over our intelligence, as an obstacle to flight. When you talk to me about religion, race, language and superstition, then I try to build wings out of these nets to fly towards the infinite freedom of thinking mind.
This week on The Final Straw we feature a chat with a translator of the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran to share perspectives from membership in Iran and abroad about resistance to the regime from within, solidarity from abroad, the impact of US Sabre-rattling.
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation
Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra unequivocally condemns the U.S. assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. This is a provocation and an act of imperialist aggression that adds to a long history of U.S.-led military and economic violence in the Middle East, including the recent crippling sanctions which most severely impact poor and working class Iranians. This assasination has every possibility of escalating into a large scale armed conflict — something that would undoubtedly lead to the immiseration of millions in the region.
This is why we are against all wars, against all governments, against all oppression. We believe passionately in the potential that all human beings have for self-determination, mutual aid, and peaceful coexistence. The authorities on both sides would make us fear each other, but we know they are our chief enemy.
Qasem Soleimani was a genocidal man that has killed thousands of men, women, and children in the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. He lead sieges for Assad and recruited Afghan refugees in Iran, many of them children, to die in the Syrian civil war. This state assassination was carried out by the United States in the obvious interest of Donald Trump’s election and what was done has not been and will not be in the interests of the people in the Middle East
From Anarchists Worldwide
In this edition of Elephant in the Room we spoke to the translator of the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran about the recent protests that were happening in Iran, repressions against the population and possible developments in upcoming months.
From AMW English
Anarchist Union of Iran and Afghanistan: we are ready to cooperate with all armed opposition
From The Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran
What is the name of your anarchist group? When did your group begin actively organizing in Belarus? What have you done so far (we understand & respect omissions due to security issues)