Anarchist Panic?
A suspicious package is found in DC and the paper connects it to anarchist violence in Europe – although it turned out to be nothing. On Dec. 27, an explosive device was mailed to the Greek embassy in Rome. That bomb was succesfully defused by Italian authorities. That same week, parcel bombs were also mailed [...]
New Years Noise Demo
A group of anarchists set off fireworks outside a Maple Ridge prison on New Year’s Eve in a protest to show solidarity with the men being held inside…In a statement posted online, the group said it was acting as part of an anarchist international New Year’s Eve tradition “against prisons and the world that needs [...]
Anarchist as Slur
Is it just me or are have people again started using the term “anarchist” as a personal slur? That led to trustee Judy Needham firing off an angry e-mail calling Sutherland an anarchist and “crazy old fool of a woman.” Read the rest here.
More on Sidney Street
While the Guardian says that the people killed on Sidney Street were probably not anarchists, the New York Times and Wales online disagree. The two dead men are believed to be the Anarchist assassins known as Fritz and Peter the Painter. In the course of the fighting three police officers, a Guardsman and five civilians [...]
Criminals Labeled Anarchists in 1911
Interesting piece in the Guardian about the The Siege of Sidney Street. The more attention anarchists get, the more every criminal will start being labeled one (or Jew or Muslim or immigrant). Be sure to watch the video the article links to. The gang scattered and the police made it no secret that they were [...]
Anarchists Attack
A group of suspected anarchists attacked a Berlin prison and a police station with fireworks, stones and paintbombs, police revealed Sunday – two days after the incidents. Read the rest here.
Anti-Establishment Crackdown?
He added that while no group has yet claimed responsibility for Thursday’s blast outside the Athens court building, counter-terrorism police are investigating the incident. “We are going to continue cracking down on the anti-establishment sources that feed this kind of terrorist activity,” he says. “These are just a few criminals. Greek society is against them.” [...]
Time on Anarchists
Nothing particularly original or insightful in this article at Time, but (aside from the end bit) it isn’t that bad. It certainly isn’t the worst thing I have ever read. Anarchism’s 19th century standard bearers were a beguiling, motley troop of globe-trotting intellectuals. Mikhail Bakunin, a larger-than-life Russian known for his great love of cigars, [...]
Advice to the “Ruling Strata”
To be sure, the current ‘anarchist’ violence carries more than a whiff of the terror ‘ultra-Left’ groups, such as, the Red Brigades and the Red Army, unleashed in some Western capitals in the seventies and early eighties. The similarities in operational style among these groups could be, perhaps, traced to the commonalities in social conditions [...]