Anarchist News Review: Palestine Action Ban, Welfare Rebellion and Israel-Iran-US
June 26th: It comes to something when even voicing support for a non-violent direct action group risks being designated as crossing the line, but Labour is no defender of freedom of speech and protest.
Palestine Action target military planes at RAF Brize Norton
June 20th: Air base linked to UK and US complicity with Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ Stanton Cree ~ Palestine Action say its activists entered RAF Brize Norton, the largest air force base in Britain, and damaged two Airbus Voyager military planes.
Anti-militarists claim arson of Amazon and Deutsche Telekom vehicles
June 18th: Amazon targeted for complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide, Telekom for cooperation with the German military and Elon Musk’s Starlink—communiqé ~ Juju Alerta ~ An anti-militarist group has claimed responsibility for setting fire to a total of 35 commercial vehicles from Amazon and Deutsche Telekom in Berlin in the early hours of Tuesday.
Breaking the siege on Gaza
June 17th: Israel’s interception of the Madleen and Egypt’s crackdown on thousands marching to Rafah will not stop resistance to systematic starvation ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ During last week more than 4,000 people gathered in Cairo to march together by foot to Gaza, demanding the immediate entry of the trucks of humanitarian aid waiting at the
Notes from the US: Reaction and Resistance
June 13th: As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests against arbitrary and sadistic raids on non-White families—first in Los Angeles and increasingly in other cities across the US—is by and large what you get on the ground.
Dockers successfully block arms shipment to Israel
June 11th: French and Italian dockworkers unite in practical resistance to the Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ David TNnzk ~ On Thursday, 5 June, workers at the port of Marseille unionised with CGT and backed by a solidarity presidium, successfully refused three containers full of military equipment which were scheduled to be loaded onto the Contship Era,
Russia: Anarchist partisans sabotage the war machine
June 9th: The trial and sentencing of Ruslan Sidiki has exposed both the terror of an authoritarian state and the power of clandestine direct action ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ At the Ryazan garrison military court, Judge Oleg Shishov on 23 May sentenced Ruslan Sidiki to 29 years of imprisonment for bombing railway tracks leading to the
Red gyms: You’ll get a kick out of this
June 15th: Following a recent tourney, one member from a participating gym talks about the need for and increasing number of explicitly political self-defence spaces.
Report from Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair
June 12th: The stalls, workshops, and after-party gig made for an event to be remembered ~ Don B ~ On Saturday (June 7th) the fourth annual Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair was held at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle Upon-Tyne.
Radical Reprint: Stalin’s ‘left’ turn
June 8th: With the Second World War coming to its conclusion it naturally left an undignified political scramble in its wake
Assisted Dying Bill: The neoliberal politics of death
June 25th: The Assisted Dying Bill cleared the House of Commons in the same week the government confirmed its commitment to slashing financial support for disabled and chronically-ill people ~ punkacademic ~ The Labour government’s commitment to finish the job started by its Tory and Liberal Democrat predecessors has taken vivid form in the proposed cuts to the health
Labour’s authoritarian urge
June 24th: Labour’s desire for authority comes from an instinct to prove they can manage the workers best ~ Jon Bigger ~ Two themes have been ever-present in Labour Party history.
The dangerous precedent of Palestine Action’s attempted proscription
June 23rd: This decision is part of a campaign by the British state to quell direct action movements ~ James Horton ~ Palestine Action, it was announced on Friday, is set to become a proscribed group.
