Nota de la CAB en castellano. read full story / add a comment

Statement from CAB. read full story / add a comment

Traducción al Castellano. read full story / add a comment

The Brazilian Anarchist Coordination repudiates the cowardly criminalization of South African fighters and social fighters and their persecution. read full story / add a comment

Nota sobre o caso de perseguição e desaparecimento de militantes sociais na África do Sul. read full story / add a comment

Para reprimir la manifestación, el gobierno de Mauricio Macri ordenó a la Policía de la Ciudad dispersar violentamente el lugar, golpeando y ultrajando a los manifestantes presentes, hiriendo en el rostro y el cuerpo a nuestro compañero Nicolás de Antueno. En estos momentos, se encuentra lesionado e incomunicado, casi en un secuestro por parte del Estado. read full story / add a comment

"No es sólo un crimen, sino un asesinato de Estado" read full story / add a comment

Guerrero está de luto una vez más. ¿Hasta dónde llegará la barbarie de la guerra contra el pueblo? read full story / add a comment

Nota traduccida al castellano. read full story / add a comment

Rafael Braga Vieira is a black and poor young man, who, until June of 2013, worked collecting material for recycling in downtown streets of Rio de Janeiro. He lived on the streets in order to save money on his way back home – he didn’t return home everyday in Vila Cruzeiro (North zone), where he lived with his parents, brothers and sisters. However, on June 20, Rafael Braga’s routine changed. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Texto traduccido al castellano acerca de la situación actual de Rafael Braga. [English] read full story / add a comment

“Mediante una rueda de prensa el secretario de gobernación, Simon Vargas, nos está difamando y amenazando a Lorenzo Bautista, Armando Monter y a mi; con un claro mensaje de intimidación". read full story / add a comment

Nei giorni scorsi è arrivato a sentenza il processo per i fatti di Casa di Nialtri ad Ancona con il risultato di produrre condanne che hanno il sapore della vendetta e della repressione nei confronti di chi ha voluto manifestare per il diritto alla casa, la solidarietà ai migranti. read full story / add a comment

per la libertà di Ocalan, dei prigionieri curdi, di tutti gli oppositori al regime di Erdogan, per il confederalismo democratico read full story / add a comment

A pocas horas para entrar en vigencia el Nuevo Código de Policía y Convivencia Ciudadana, el cual contempla las reglas del comportamiento y conducta ciudadana, más que ser un documento que contempla más de 300 situaciones en 243 artículos que rigen la conducta y el comportamiento de los ciudadanos en el país; es a todas luces una ley hecha a la medida de los regímenes totalitarios en tanto que con la amenaza constante de la Ley Penal y la sanción vía multa, restringe y prohíbe todo intento de movilización institucionalizando así la criminalización. read full story / add a comment

This article looks at the issue of vigilantism and drugs in Aotearoa/New Zealand. read full story / add a comment

Ya vamos por la mitad del mal llamado “año de la paz”, se han dado varios de los pasos para llegar a tal fin según el discurso oficial, ya se mencionó con bombos y platillos que “el último día de la guerra” había llegado. Y bueno, vale la pena reconocer que efectivamente es un hecho histórico, un hito en la realidad del país -eso es una verdad a voces-, pero decir que vivimos el “último día de la guerra” trae consigo un sesgo político, social, cultural y económico de la realidad bastante fuerte, no es más que lo que podría mencionarse en términos literarios: toda una hipérbole. read full story / add a comment

Στεκόμαστε με όλη μας τη ψυχή δίπλα στον αντιστεκόμενο κουρδικό λαό της ανατολικής Τουρκίας, τις Κούρδισσες και τους Κούρδους ένοπλους αντάρτες, τις Τουρκάλες και τους Τούρκους αγωνιστές, που μάχονται με αυτοθυσία απέναντι στον θρησκευτικό φονταμενταλισμό-σκοταδισμό και τον κρατικό ολοκληρωτισμό, για την αυτονομία τους, την επανάσταση και την κοινωνική δικαιοσύνη read full story / add a comment

Aderiamo alla campagna nazionale per l’abolizione della contenzione perché non accettiamo lo status quo come un dato naturale e irreversibile, ma invece come un risultato socialmente e storicamente determinato, su cui abbiamo il dovere di intervenire. read full story / add a comment

After the killing of Michael Brown in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri in the late summer of 2014, protests erupted, and the Black Lives Matter spread across North America to protest police violence, too often systematically directed at poor and racialized communities. The massive police presence at these protests, with weapons and armoured vehicles that looked and felt like major military deployments, made it clear to all that something fundamental had taken place in policing practices and strategies. The intensification and extension of the coercive and security branches of the state was well-known since the declaration of the ‘war on terror’ in 2001, and the subsequent leaks of official documents by Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and others. The hardening of the state in its day-to-day operations at the most local levels could now be seen everywhere by all, in an increasing confrontation with the democratic rights of assembly and protest.

Lesley Wood's recent book, Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing (2014), locates these developments in a longer term perspective in relation to the spread of neoliberalism. Analyzing police agencies, strategies and practices from the mid-1990s to the present, she identifies a range of the structural and political forces that have led to the militarization of policing, particularly in North America, but also in trends that extend to Europe. This involves detailing a new matrix in the relations between the security, national police and defence apparatuses of the state with local police forces and the defence and security industries. Professional police associations and their various conferences and conventions have become important nodes for the spread of ‘best-practice policing’, in the form of kettling, barricading, infiltration and pre-emptive arrests, usage of new anti-protest weaponry, security screening, local intelligence-gathering capacities and the like. But also as sites where the case is made for an increase in police budgets, more capital intensification of policing and thus for accumulation by the ‘coercive’ industries (which define modern urbanism as much as the so-called ‘creative’ sector).

In a period of sharpening inequality, permanent neoliberal austerity, and hard right forces gaining ground, the logic for a further militarization of policing, securitizing of cities, and curtailing and limiting protests. In her book, Wood seeks not only to map these developments in North America through time, but also to expose the contradictions in the new forms of policing in capitalist states, and begin to pose how social and anti-capitalist movements will have to respond to ‘demilitarize our relations’.

Lesley Wood teaches sociology at York University, Toronto and Greg Albo teaches political science at York University. read full story / add a comment