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Super excited about this 2024 @PMPressOrg & @Kersplebedeb release! It grows out of decades of anti-fascists/anti-state 3 Way Fight organizing. I have a piece in it! pmpress.org/index.php?l=prod…
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🚨 GEN Z PROTESTS HIT 12 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN 48 HOURS. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED TO EACH:
🇬🇷 Greece — about 10,000 MARCHED through Athens: "From Greece to France, we want public, free education"
🇬🇷 Greece — students CAMPED outside Parliament, marches in Thessaloniki, Patras and Larissa
🇦🇱 Albania — government buildings and banks set ON FIRE, tear gas and water cannon for an 8th straight day
🇫🇷 France — Paris police BANNED today's student march, Lyon banned its marches too
🇫🇷 Marseille — a CURFEW on minors every night until Friday
🇮🇹 Italy — Meloni's EMERGENCY decree lowers the presumed age of criminal responsibility to 14 (Irish Times)
🇮🇹 Italy — Naples' Federico II university OCCUPIED, 10+ Florence high schools taken over
🇵🇹 Portugal — police CLEARED the Lisbon and Porto camps, 55 arrested (home prices more than doubled since 2017)
🇪🇸 Spain — Madrid teachers on strike 6 days, Ayuso's government REFUSES to negotiate
🇧🇪 Belgium — 250+ ARRESTED at Brussels youth protests in two weeks
🇦🇹 Austria — Vienna students MARCH today against a 10% university cut
🇩🇪 Germany — Gen Z protests called in 21 cities
🇨🇭 Switzerland — student groups call a national strike
🇷🇸 Serbia — students run for power on Sunday
🇮🇪 Ireland — Cork student housing protests "far from done"
AFTERMATH:
550,000 marched in France in ONE DAY last weekend
2,400+ arrested in France that same weekend
295 injured in Albania (63% of them police)
Rallies planned across 50 Greek cities
12 countries in revolt in 48 hours
Europe's governments bet on curfews, bans and tear gas.
Gen Z made sure the next country over joined in.
This is not a one-country protest.
This is the beginning of something much bigger.
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🚨Así se le responde a la barbarie policial, en cualquier lugar del mundo. 💪💪💪
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“The addresses are circulating. Insurrection is the only way to escape the electoral trap looming on the horizon.“
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In Paris, the uprising continues. On October 18, masses of people once again took to the streets.
Crowds gathered at Place de la République and in the surrounding streets, erecting barricades as police deployed large amounts of tear gas. 🧵
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Reflections on the Ongoing High School Movement in France
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(NEW!) Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto
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(NEW!) Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story
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The first popular history of the Bund re-creates their extraordinary world. Portraits of insurgent poets & antireligious rebels, clandestine revolutionaries & lovers on the barricades
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(NEW!) Ruiner: A Novel (Tellers, Book 1)
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A political fantasy where storytelling is combat magic and ordinary people must fight against exploitation and environmental destruction.
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More newly added anarchist books, now available at LeftWingBooks.net!
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(NEW!) Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, From Settlement to Uprising
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A progressive veneer allows the repressive core of the city's policing machinery to function so effectively.
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The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising
How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?
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(Back in stock!) Black Anarchism & the Black Radical Tradition: Moving Beyond Racial Capitalism
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Often, Black anarchists are not acknowledged within the Black Radical Tradition for their contributions to theory as well as struggle. We seek to change that.
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(NEW!) Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston
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Alston helped nurture & define a distinct form of anarchism rooted in the Black experience through his experiences in the BPP & BLA, through social movements from the late 60s to today.
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In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
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All our beliefs about the innate righteousness of property & ownership, Osterweil explains, are built on the history of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous oppression.
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(NEW!) Visions and Interventions: Thirty Years of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
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Three decades of critical anarchist thought on major historical moments and social issues.
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(NEW!) On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times
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We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?
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Burning barricades in Marseille, Oct 18 2026
🔴 🇫🇷 FRANCE
URGENT Barricade en feu dans le secteur de la Joliette à Marseille.
Tensions en cours.
À suivre.
#Marseille #Joliette #18octobre
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People are complaining about no good leftist analysis on the riots in France. Don’t do that. Read these instead.
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