Who’s afraid of a little anarchy?

From new mandala by Mochammad Naufal Rizki - 26 Sep, 2025

The official response to August's protests shows how Indonesia’s small but active anarchist community has become the go-to bogeyman for governments seeking to justify crackdowns. The scapegoating of anarchists has meanwhile undermined the unity and political impact of anti-oligarchic protest movements.

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ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem says

From The Oregonian by Maxine Bernstein.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Friday promised swift prosecution of what she called “anarchist and Antifa-affiliated groups” trying to obtain and share personal information of federal immigration officers in Oregon to dox them.

St. Petersburg Bookstore Manager Fined Over Sale of Anarchist Memoir

From The Moscow Times

A St. Petersburg court on Monday fined the manager of the century-old bookstore Podpisniye Izdaniya 20,000 rubles ($254) for selling a copy of a jailed Belarusian anarchist’s memoir.

Philly’s forgotten history as a hub of anarchism with a thriving radical Yiddish press

From The Conversation

On a late summer day in 1906, a small group of newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia took a streetcar across town to Fairmount Park. Several miles from the cramped row houses and oppressive sweatshops of the immigrant quarter of South Philly, the neighborhood now known as Queen Village, they enjoyed a sunny picnic.

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