Category: International

THE SPARK: comments on the emerging student movement

Student strikes and struggles continue to hit all of Britain. The following article was written by a member of the Sheffield branch of the Anarchist Federation. “This is only the beginning.” This has been the almost universal message from students who have been engaging in and pushing for more direct action in the growing movement [...]

Interview: The Irish Struggle Against Austerity

By Mike Harris Q: Thank you, Kevin, for doing this interview with the Workers Solidarity Alliance’s on-line journal ideas & action. Before we begin the interview, I must say, it almost seems like yesterday you out-migrated to NYC for a bit, and we were sitting face-to-face discussing anarchist politics and the world around us. All [...]

U.S. Army Death Squad Trial Begins

By Mike Kolhoff The court martial of members of a US Army “kill team” began on Tuesday, November 10. The twelve soldiers are on trial for murdering Afghani civilians in the province of Kandahar between January and May. They collected body parts as trophies and took photos with their victims’ bodies. All the soldiers claim [...]

The Protest Movement Against the Planned Reform on Retirement in France

By the Secrétariat international de la coordination des groupes anarchistes The movement in full swing Although the protest movement began to find wide support from 7 September 2010, it originally came into being in March 2010, in order to stop the government’s plans to raise the retirement age (an idea first conceived by the right [...]