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Marco Pogo, a legend in the Madison music scene, disdains the conventional world

Wisconsin State Journal
April 15, 2024

Kunin said he’s known for not talking about his work history. “I never wanted to sell my brains to someone who would use them for profit. I’m very against capitalism. I’m an anarchist. I’m against the government.”

London: Welcome to the New Eroding Empire!

From eroding empire
March 20, 2024

Because the empire is still eroding!

The new website hopes to provide people with an overview of current events in the radical, punk and diy scene in London. Find anarchist social centres, gigs (punk or otherwise), upcoming protests etc. At the end of the day it’s a user-led creation, so please use this website to submit your events, not submit to authority! You can read more about the underlying events platform Radar on the event submission page.

Review: Flower – Heel of the Next / Physical God EP

From DIY Conspiracy
February 5, 2024
Reviewed by Azafell

NYC's Flower return with a new single featuring powerful bass, aggressive crustcore guitar with melancholic tones, precise drumming, and fierce anarcha-feminist vocals railing against corporate and systemic oppression.

Video from book launch in Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh

From Anarchism and Punk

For anyone who missed it, you can check out this video taken at our book launch event on 29th December in Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh. Jim gives an overview of the book and the genesis of the project, and our comrade from the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective rattles through a political economy of punk, post-Fordism and the death of social media, with Q&A thereafter.

Punk—Dangerous Utopia

From CrimethInc.

Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism

How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the resurgence of anarchism around the world at the end of the 20th century? How did it prefigure the participatory media of the digital age? And what can its legacy teach us today?

Punk Veganism as a Culture of Resistance

From DIY Conspiracy

DIY Conspiracy celebrates the World Vegan Day 2022 with this new essay by Len Tilbürger, in which the author explores the intersection between the anarchist strains of punk-rock and the animal liberation movement, thus showing how essential veganism has been for creating a vibrant culture of solidarity and resistance.

Sugako – Advance 2021

The lyrics are concerned with the name sake of the group, Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist journalist interested in the liberation of women and humanity as a whole. She was executed by hanging on January 25, 1911 by the Japanese government due to her connections to the High Treason Incident, a plot by a group of socialists and anarchist to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. 26 people were arrested of which twelve were hanged to death despite the lack of direct evidence. Two more were sentenced to eight and eleven years of prison respectively and the remaining twelve were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sugako was the last person to be killed.

Final send-off for loveable Aberdeen anarchist, punk singer Dod Copland

Final send-off for loveable Aberdeen anarchist, punk singer Dod Copland

From The Press and Journal

The funeral of Dod ‘ACAB’ Copland – one of Aberdeen’s best known personalities – will take place on Friday, August 5.

The former frontman of punk band Toxik Ephex, popular piper and ‘weel kent’ city centre busker passed away on Thursday July 28 after a period of illness aged 59.

Eric King Speaks | 2 Radical Ukrainian Voices

Write an anarchist prisoner today!

from The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re sharing 3 segments on this episode.

First up, you’ll hear Eric King's segment. This is followed by Sean Swain’s segment. Then, you’ll hear Maria, a member of Anarchist Black Cross Kyiv, just returned from Ukraine and currently in Warsaw, Poland. Finally, you’ll hear a conversation recorded on Sunday, April 3rd with Mira, a member of the street punk band Bezlad and a show booker in the hardcore scene of Kharkiv near the Russian Border.

A Roving Band of Anarcho-Punks

"walking is still honest" - Blink 182

From Empty Hands History by Spencer Beswick

The Vermont Family’s Revitalization of American Anarchism

The Vermont Family was a roving band of anarcho-punks that helped build the American anarchist movement in the 1980s. They were a key element of the connective tissue that linked the dispersed anarchist milieu. The Family originally came together within the “Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament,” in which hundreds of people walked from Los Angeles to Washington, DC over the course of nine months in 1986. As many of the liberals dropped out or retreated to cars, a core group of anarchists coalesced to form a traveling “anarchy village” which grew from 15 to around 70 or 80 people. They ran the village through consensus and promoted anarchist politics within the march. After the march reached DC, the Family stayed together as a loose network of travelers, comrades, and friends.

From Punk to Indigenous Solidarity: Four Decades of Anarchism in Brazil

from CrimethInc.

In the following interview, two longtime anarcho-punks recount the reemergence of anarchism in Brazil after the end of the military dictatorship, trace the fortunes of social movements through the rise and fall of the left Workers Party government, and describe the situation for Indigenous peoples and Indigenous solidarity efforts under the far-right Bolsonaro regime today.

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