January 2025 archive

Iran: Solidarity with Pakhshan Azizi, in imminent Risk of Execution

Death Sentence Upheld Despite Torture, Evidence of Innocence of Charges January 9, 2025 — The first woman political prisoner in 14 years in Iran is facing imminent execution, after a blatantly unfair appeal process that upheld her death sentence. If carried out, this will mark a grave escalation in the Islamic Republic’s unlawful use of …

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Greece: Kurdish journalist sentenced to 7 months in prison for documenting police violence

Greek courts have upheld the conviction of Kurdish journalist Berçem Mordeniz, rejecting her appeal and sentencing her to seven months in prison, which was suspended. The case stems from her reporting on police violence. Mordeniz was found guilty of verballing abusing and attacking police officers while documenting an incident of police brutality in 2020, a …

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LET’S ABOLISH THE ARMIES! LET’S STOP WARS! LET’S UNMASK NATIONALISMS!

[Update to the FAI Anti-War Manifesto, approved by the XXXII Congress of the Italian Anarchist Federation – FAI held in Carrara from 3 to 6 January 2025] LET’S ABOLISH THE ARMIES! LET’S STOP WARS! LET’S UNMASK NATIONALISMS! The Italian Anarchist Federation reaffirms its support for the [Italian] Antimilitarist Assembly to build a vast anti-war movement, …

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The Bulgarian Border Police prevents the rescue of three minor migrants who were later found dead

The Bulgarian Border Police prevents the rescue of three underage people on the move in life-threatening danger. The bodies, abandoned in the snow-covered woods and partially eaten by animals, were then recovered by the Collettivo Rotte Balcaniche and No Name Kitchen. The Bulgarian Border Police abandoned three underage Egyptian migrants—Ali (15), Samir (16), and Yasser …

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Text by Pola Roupa in View of the Judicial Council in Chalkida on January 10, ’25

I was released on November 17, 2023, after 8.5 years of detention in prison for my participation in the Revolutionary Struggle. Under the current legal framework for a twenty-year prison sentence like mine, I could have been released earlier if I had more wages. However, the large number of trials, my constant transfers from Eleonas …

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Interview with an anti-militarist from Odessa

This is the translation into English (by AnarCom Network) of an interview that was carried out by comrades from the Internationalist Anarchist Group Československé anarchistické sdružení – CAS for the first issue of the Dezertér magazine. 1)Please introduce yourself briefly to the readers of our magazine. Are you from Ukraine, where you were born and …

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What a strike is for workers, an occupation is for students: an interview with a student from Serbia (by Inicjatywa Pracownicza)

We share the translation into English (published by Transnational Social Strike) of the interview conducted by Inicjatywa Pracownicza with a student involved in the protests shaking Serbian universities. The protests were sparked by the collapse of the roof of the Novi Sad railway station on November 1, which killed 15 people. Inicjatywa Pracownicza: Could you …

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