June 11, 2018: A Day Against Oblivion
What follows is a call out for June 11th, the international day of solidarity with long term anarchist prisoners. Like last year,... Read Full Article
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What follows is a call out for June 11th, the international day of solidarity with long term anarchist prisoners. Like last year,... Read Full Article
John Guandolo, a “disgraced” former FBI agent who now tours the country promoting the idea that there are no “moderate” Muslims, ISIS... Read Full Article
In the past week, the mass spectacle of the Democratic Party backed ‘March for Our Lives’ rallies across the US are now... Read Full Article
The political crisis grows in DC, as Jeff Sessions fired the Deputy Director of the FBI. In response: Former CIA Director John... Read Full Article
Sun in Pisces, New Moon in Pisces Issue 7, March 2018 “The puppet called ‘historical materialism’ is always supposed to win. It... Read Full Article
It’s been a busy few weeks, from a prison riot in Arizona and hunger strikes at a private prison in Mississippi, to... Read Full Article
Right now, as these words are being typed, someone is spray painting an H&M store somewhere. Or at least that feels like... Read Full Article
It’s been about a month and a half since our last roundup, and the several times when we have attempted to sit... Read Full Article
This column, on the eve of #StopSpencer in Michigan, I want to address myself specifically to all the meme frogs. Over the... Read Full Article
Last week we shared an overview of the history of Canadian prisons and the resistance to them. We’re excited to share an... Read Full Article
VANDALISMS, our ongoing graffiti and street art column, returns to tear up the streets with anarchist, radical, and anti-political graffiti from around... Read Full Article
For the time being, the street presence of the neo-fascist movement has been decimated. What remains of the horde that invaded the... Read Full Article
In an effort to broaden our coverage of prisons across the borders to both the North and South of us, we’ve brought... Read Full Article
While there’s been a lot going on around the bloc, we wanted to get out these very important political prisoner and repression... Read Full Article
It’s necessary above all to maintain the reign of the economy beyond the extinction of the wage system. This has to do... Read Full Article
Sun in Aquarius, Full Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse in Leo Issue 6, February 2018 I am not a progressive. I think... Read Full Article
“Sadly in an institution that is run solely off of fear and solely off of aggression and solely off of violence, the... Read Full Article
As Trump addresses the halls of power in his ‘State of the Union’ speech, more dust-ups continue within the ruling class. Republicans... Read Full Article
We called this an irregular column so that it’s not a big deal if one doesn’t get published for over nearly two... Read Full Article
Cover photo from Blockade Babes This week brought everything from predictions on the collapse of civilization in 2040 as a result of a... Read Full Article
We’ve entered into a new year. Forget all your resolutions, besides the resolution to make it to next year. This will be... Read Full Article
Photo from Olympia Stand Since the new year, the Trump administration has been hounded by the press after the publishing of the book, Fire... Read Full Article
On Descartes’ assumptions, the work of science, if not the destiny of life, was to widen the empire of the machine. Lesser... Read Full Article
Sun in Capricorn, Full Moon in Cancer, Saturn in Capricorn Issue 5, January 2018 The consciousness of exploding the continuum of history... Read Full Article
2017 comes to close, and while we’ll leave the year end analysis for another column, there’s been a lot happening this past... Read Full Article
This January prisoners in Florida will continue to build on the momentum of nearly two years of uprising and rebellion, launching a... Read Full Article
Errico Malatesta wrote that an organ of the State, deprived of its original function, will either wither and die or, when possible,... Read Full Article
Bloc party here to give you several repression and political prisoner updates. Just a reminder, as New Year’s Eve gets closer, there... Read Full Article
“When I talked to this inmate and from letters and Facebook messages I’ve received, they said this was one of the rankest... Read Full Article
Sun in Sagittarius, Full Moon in Gemini Issue 4, December 2017 “The avenger that completes the task of liberation in the name... Read Full Article
On a blustery late November morning we rolled out of bed, threw on a pair of boots and our balaclavas. One never... Read Full Article
On November 27th, 2017, federal grand jury subpoenas were received by at least two anti-racist activists and victims of the attack by... Read Full Article
View this post on Instagram He's really really good • • • • • #memeffiti #graffitimeme #graffitimemes #dankmeme #dankgraffitimeme #funny #graffiti #vandalism... Read Full Article
Photo from @jpegjoshua Resistance is heating up. Across the US, struggles are taking place against pipelines, and rebel communities are squatting buildings, fighting... Read Full Article
“We have patience, a lot of time, and most importantly, nothing to lose.” -A prisoner at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center... Read Full Article
He-haw! Looks like the National Policy Institute decided to take their trust fund blooded bodies back to the soil to have themselves a... Read Full Article
Photo from the Miami Herald. The past few months we’ve been closely following the Twitter accounts @JLawSpeak and @SlaveryPrison, which have been... Read Full Article
We are happy to announce anarchist prisoner Casey Brezik’s brand new support site and post-release fund. As he mentions in his updates below,... Read Full Article
Sun in Scorpio, Full Moon in Taurus Issue 3, November 2017 “The state of emergency has become the norm. To do more... Read Full Article
Welcome to VANDALISMS, an irregular column round up of, obviously, vandalism. We’ll collect photos and stories of all sorts of graffiti across... Read Full Article