News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava

A Russian anarchist volunteer speaks on the collapse of the Assad regime, the future of Russia, and the looming threat of a Turkish-backed invasion of northeastern Syria.

https://crimethinc.com/Rojava2024

"I watched with special feeling as the Russian columns passed by me at one of the positions. I peered into the faces of the soldiers, trying to understand whether they realized that all these years, they had been terrorizing the population with bombings, they had surrendered Afrin to the Turkish army, they had kept Assad’s regime alive—and now all this is over. Russian military aid to the Syrian dictatorship has ended. I do not think that those soldiers realized that they were looking into the eyes of a man from the same country as themselves, but who chose the other side of the barricades."

Flowers Will Emerge From The Desert [R] (Muntjac 2024)

They say the right can't meme...

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https://challenge.bellingcat.com/

[Damascus, Syria]

Multiple Assadist prisons have been emptied. Here the "Human Slaughterhouse" of Sednaya prison is emptied.

Yes that is a toddler.

Thoughts on HTS and the ongoing war aside, such footage should do nothing but inspire joy.

"The regime has fallen, the war continues."

"As anarchists, we must also give answers to the question of nation-State. While calling for the end of states and borders, we need to push forward not just our criticisms, but also our proposals and solutions. We have to do this not only in theory, but in practice, organizing with local communities and social movements to build popular power."

via Têkoşîna Anarşîst

tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/we-carry-a-new

Delay, Deny, Defend [Reader] (Jay M Feinman 2010)

[Athens, Greece]
After the state occupied the squatted social centre Weeds early in the year they sealed the building up with concrete and placed armed guards around it for the following months.

The building has now been retaken and the kind squatters even returned their concrete.

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1633121/