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Post #1291 100
Movements for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions — BDS — can also be examined from this perspective: as efforts to exert pressure from below rather than send human beings onto battlefields.
However, even these movements are compatible with anarchist ethics only as long as they do not turn into hatred of Jews, Palestinians, or any ethnic or religious group.
If the cycle of violence is ever to be genuinely broken, the demand must go beyond “Israel's victory” or “Palestine's victory.” It must be something much deeper:
An end to the killing of civilians.
The release of hostages and prisoners, with their rights respected.
An end to occupation and military domination.
An end to the siege and collective punishment.
An end to settlement expansion and forced displacement.
The right of return or fair compensation for displaced people, within a framework that recognizes the rights of all inhabitants.
Full legal and political equality for all human beings, regardless of ethnicity or religion.
And, most importantly:
The right of people to determine their own destiny, without states, armies, or armed organizations deciding that destiny on their behalf.
From an anarchist perspective, the issue is not to prove that “these people are good and those people are bad.”
The issue is to understand how states, armies, nationalist ideologies, and armed organizations trap ordinary people in a cycle in which every death becomes an excuse for the next.
October 7 cannot be separated from the history of occupation, displacement, and repression.
But the history of occupation cannot justify the deliberate killing of civilians or hostage-taking either.
Likewise, the crimes of October 7 cannot justify the killing, starvation, displacement, and collective punishment of millions of Palestinians.
If we are to escape the cycle of revenge, we must also move beyond the logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
A peace achieved solely through the victory of one army over another is not the peace of the people.
Real peace begins when no child has to be sacrificed so that another can live freely.
And perhaps the fundamental question here is this:
How can we build a society in which people's security comes not from the barrels of state guns, but from freedom, equality, mutual aid, solidarity, and the organized collective power of the people themselves?
Conclusion: No to States, Yes to Human Beings
From an anarchist perspective, choosing between Israel and Hamas means choosing between two armed powers; it does not necessarily mean choosing between two paths to liberation.
We can:
Condemn the killing of civilians on October 7.
Condemn hostage-taking.
Condemn occupation and settlement expansion.
Condemn the collective punishment of Gaza's population.
Condemn violence against Palestinian and Israeli civilians.
And, at the same time, refuse to turn any state or armed organization into an idol.
No to antisemitism.
No to hatred of Palestinians.
No to extreme nationalism.
No to terrorism.
No to occupation.
No to apartheid and discrimination.
No to collective punishment.
No to the glorification of armies and war.
And yes to:
Freedom, equality, solidarity, self-determination, and the equal dignity of all human beings.
Anarchism has never sought to replace one flag with another. Instead, it asks us to consider: Why should a human being have to possess a state in order to be free?
Perhaps the way out of this cycle is not the victory of one community over another, but the creation of a society in which no state, army, armed organization, or ideology can turn human beings into instruments of its own power.
An Israeli life lost is no less human than a Palestinian life lost.
And as long as human lives are not valued equally, no victory can truly be a victory for humanity.
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Post #1290 72
Hamas, even if it describes itself as a resistance movement, has no right to kill civilians or take hostages in the name of the Palestinian people.
No state, army, or armed organization owns human lives.
“National security” cannot be used to justify depriving millions of people of their freedom and dignity.
The suffering of one community must never become an excuse for repressing another.
Victims must not be turned into soldiers serving state ideologies.
From this perspective, the binary choice between “Israel or Hamas” is fundamentally incomplete.
The anarchist questions are:
What does an Israeli living in fear of rockets and attacks want? What does a Palestinian living under siege, occupation, and displacement want?
Before belonging to any community, both are human beings.
After the Ceasefire: Has the War Really Ended?
The October 2025 ceasefire brought an end to the large-scale war, but it did not put an end to violence. A September 2026 UN report states that the ceasefire remains fragile, Israeli attacks continue, large parts of Gaza remain subject to severe access restrictions, and reconstruction is proceeding on a scale far below what the population needs.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), between the announcement of the ceasefire on October 10, 2025, and September 2026, at least 1,402 Palestinians were killed and 4,881 injured in Gaza. These figures are attributed to Gaza's Ministry of Health and do not encompass all the consequences of the war and the destruction it has caused.
The situation in the West Bank is no different. Settler violence, home demolitions, restrictions on movement, settlement expansion, and the forced displacement of Palestinians continue. The United Nations has reported that in 2026, an average of approximately 17 Palestinians were displaced every day as a result of settler violence and demolitions — twice the average recorded in previous years.
Therefore, a “ceasefire” does not necessarily mean “freedom” or “peace.”
The sound of bombardment may diminish, but as long as domination, occupation, discrimination, siege, settlement expansion, imprisonment, military borders, and structural poverty remain in place, the conditions that reproduce violence will remain as well.
The Problem Is Not Just War; It Is the Structure of Power
Anarchism compels us to take a step back and examine the bigger picture.
States usually say:
“We need an army to protect your security.”
The military says:
“We need more weapons to defend you.”
Politicians say:
“You must give the state more power to confront the enemy.”
And ultimately, ordinary people, both Israeli and Palestinian, pay the price of this cycle with their lives, homes, freedom, and future.
Under such circumstances, each side can present the other side’s crimes as evidence that it needs even more power.
Hamas says: Occupation and repression exist; therefore, armed resistance is necessary.
The Israeli government says: Hamas and other armed groups exist; therefore, a military and military control are necessary.
And this cycle can continue for generations.
Power justifies its own violence through the violence of the opposing side.
This is one of the most fundamental lessons that an anarchist perspective can draw from this catastrophe.
A Third Way: Beyond States
Anarchism does not necessarily mean indifference to the security of Israelis or the rights of Palestinians. On the contrary, it can demand security for both, but a form of security that is not built upon the domination of one group by another.
The path that deserves serious consideration is one based on direct cooperation among people, democratic local councils, trade unions, mutual-aid networks, women's groups, peace activists, human rights defenders, anti-war movements, and all those who refuse to reduce human beings merely to “Israeli,” “Palestinian,” “Jewish,” “Muslim,” or “enemy.”
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Post #1289 83
An Anarchist Perspective on Israel, Palestine, and the Endless Cycle of Violence
Research by Hasse-Nima Golkar
From October 7 to the Present: States at War with Human Beings
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict cannot be said to have begun on October 7, 2023, just as it cannot simply be reduced to a war between “two nations.”
The roots of this catastrophe go back decades: to the end of the British Mandate, the 1948 war, the establishment of the State of Israel, the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians, and the emergence of what Palestinians call the Nakba — the catastrophe. Following the 1967 war, the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, the expansion of Israeli settlements, and extensive restrictions on Palestinians’ lives and freedom of movement further entrenched structures of inequality and domination. Today, nearly 5.9 million Palestinian refugees are eligible for services provided by UNRWA.
From an anarchist perspective, the question is not simply: “Which state has the right to govern which territory?” The more fundamental question is:
Why should human beings have to submit to states, armies, borders, and military institutions in order to live, enjoy freedom, and secure their safety?
October 7: A Crime That Cannot Be Justified
On October 7, 2023, Hamas forces and several other Palestinian armed groups attacked southern Israel. Approximately 1,200 people were killed, and 251 were abducted and taken to Gaza. Civilians were among those targeted in the assault. According to the findings of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry, hostage-taking, murder, torture, and other acts against civilians constituted war crimes.
From an anarchist standpoint, no occupation, repression, or historical injustice can justify the deliberate killing of civilians or the taking of hostages.
But this principle must be applied consistently, without exception.
If killing an Israeli child is a crime, killing a Palestinian child is equally a crime.
If taking an Israeli civilian hostage is a crime, depriving an entire civilian population of water, food, medicine, and security cannot be justified as a “right to self-defence” either.
From “Revenge” to Collective Punishment
Following October 7, the Israeli government launched a large-scale war in Gaza. The scale of killing, destruction, displacement, and deprivation of basic necessities went far beyond a limited military operation against armed groups.
In 2024, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry reported that Israeli operations in Gaza involved war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture, and the use of starvation as a method of warfare. The same Commission also identified Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups as responsible for war crimes committed during the October 7 attack.
In September 2025, the same Commission went a step further, concluding that, based on its investigation, Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. This is a finding by a UN Commission of Inquiry; it is not the same as a final ruling by the International Court of Justice in the genocide case, and the two should not be conflated. South Africa's case against Israel remains before the International Court of Justice.
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court also issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. These decisions, however, do not constitute final convictions; they are part of an ongoing international judicial process.
An Anarchist Is Neither a Supporter of the Israeli State nor of a Palestinian State
This is where the difference between an anarchist perspective and many prevailing narratives becomes clear. Anarchism fundamentally opposes turning human beings into soldiers serving a state.
From this perspective:
The State of Israel, even if it regards the protection of its citizens as its responsibility, has no right to pursue security through mass killing and military domination over another people.
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Post #1287 128
Good evening comrades,

On May 11, eight anarchists were arrested in Greece following an expropriation at a bank branch in Kato Tithorea. Two were released under strict restrictive conditions, while six were remanded in custody and transferred to prisons across the country.

They are now facing serious criminal charges and significant legal costs. We are sharing the campaign fund with you, which aims to provide political, material, and moral support to the eight comrades throughout the legal proceedings. There, you will find texts translated into English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

We also ask for your support and solidarity —both political and material— to help open up the case and strengthen our comrades. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information, ideas, thoughts on potential actions, and so on.

fund: www.firefund.net/11may

In solidarity,
Open Assembly of Solidarity with those prosecuted for the bank expropriation in Kato Tithorea
www.firefund.net LEGAL EXPENSES - For the 8 persecuted comrades for the bank expropriation in Kato Tithorea (11th of May) Campaign for Legal Expenses
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Post #1286 154
A Statement by “Anarchist Front” on the Student Protest Movement in France
From Schools to the Streets: When Society Organizes Itself!
The nationwide student and school pupil protests in France should be understood as more than a confrontation between the government and demonstrators. The issue is not simply deteriorating school buildings, inadequate public funding, or the rising cost of living. At its heart lies a more fundamental question: who should have the power to shape social life — institutions of authority from above, or the people who directly experience these problems?
From our perspective, when students and school pupils occupy their schools, block roads, and organize horizontally with one another, the significance of their actions goes far beyond “protest.” They are gaining practical experience in self-organization, solidarity, mutual aid, and collective decision-making from below.
Governments generally tolerate protest as long as it remains within boundaries defined in advance. But when people organize and act for themselves, without waiting for permission from political parties, parliaments, or official institutions, something fundamental changes. Under such circumstances, repression, mass arrests, and attempts to shift public attention away from the protesters’ demands and toward property damage can serve to obscure the central question:
Why should those who are directly affected by a situation not have the right to decide for themselves how it should be addressed?
An anarchist critique does not mean ignoring harm to people or property. The real question is whether isolated incidents of damage should be allowed to overshadow the underlying social issues — and, more importantly, who has the power to define “order” and “disorder,” and according to whose interests and criteria?
If the students’ struggle connects with the struggles of workers and other social groups, the streets can become more than spaces for expressing discontent. They can become spaces of solidarity, mutual aid, and independent grassroots organizing outside the structures of power.
From this perspective, the question is not:
“Which political party should take power?”
The more fundamental question is:
“How can power be taken out of the exclusive hands of the state, political parties, and elites, and how can control over our collective lives be returned to the people themselves?”
Schools, universities, workplaces, and neighborhoods need not be merely places where everyday life takes place. They can also become spaces where direct democracy, solidarity, mutual aid, and self-management are practiced and developed from below.
A society capable of organizing itself around its own needs and demands, without waiting for political guardians to act on its behalf, has already taken a first step toward freedom from paternalism and political tutelage.
Anarchist Front (Iran & Afghanistan)
2 October 2026
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Post #1283 389
Anarcho-feminist doctor Bayan Salehian arrested, whereabouts unknown

Bayan Salehian, a 43-year-old anarcho-feminist and internal medicine specialist from Saqqez, living in Urmia,in Iran, was violently arrested on Sunday when intelligence and security service raided her home and took her to an undisclosed location.
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Post #1282 202
Born in Vilnius, Lithuania within the Russian empire, Fanya Greck ( her family changed their name to Grefenson in the USA) moved to the United States where she established a relationship with Aron Baron (aka Kantorovitch), who worked as a baker. Aron had fled to Chicago in 1912. He met Fanya (Freide) through his older brother Newman (Nahum) who was married to Fanya's older sister Sarah. She was active in the anarchist movement in Chicago, and with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She was involved in the hunger demonstrations of 1915 there, alongside Lucy Parsons and Aron. On January 17th 1915 she led the Russian Revolutionary Chorus at a meeting addressed by Lucy Parsons and others at Hull House, established by Jane Addams to help the poor. On the demonstration outside the police viciously attacked. Plain clothes detectives used brass knuckles on the crowd, while uniformed cops struck out with billy clubs. Fanya was knocked unconscious by one of the club wielding cops. She and five other Russian women and fifteen men were arrested. Jane Addams arranged bail for Fanya, Lucy and others who were pictured in the Chicago press.
She returned to Russia with Aron and Boris Yelensky in 1917.She was active with the the Nabat Anarchist Confederation in the Ukraine between 1919 and 1920. She was arrested with many other anarchists by the Cheka at a conference held in Kharkhov on the 25th November 1920.
From spring 1921 she was at the prison at Ryazan. She escaped from there with 9 other anarchists, sprung by the Underground Anarchists - a clandestine anarchist network - on 10th July 1921. She planned to help Aron escape from prison in Moscow. She sought refuge with Aron's brother, a member of the Bolshevik Party and was arrested by the Cheka on the 17th August at his home. It is unclear whether he betrayed her. The Cheka had planted agents among the Underground Anarchists, and arranged acts of provocation, including forgery.
Fanya was shot by the Cheka on 29th September, 1921 after having been found guilty of being an “accomplice of anti-Soviet criminal acts”. Murdered at the same time were the poet Lev Tcherny with nine other anarchists. Their deaths became a symbol of the oppression unleashed against Russian anarchism. She refused to go to her death meekly, fighting her executioners all the way.
Aron perished in the labour camps in 1937.
“Her face was turned to the sun, her whole being radiant with idealism. Her silvery laughter rang with the joy of youth and life, but I trembled for her safety at every approaching step. “Do not fear” she kept reassuring me, “no one will know me in my peasant disguise”." The Bolshevik Myth - Alexander Berkman.
https://libcom.org/article/baron-fanya-aka-fanny-grefenson-aka-anisimovna-aka-fanny-baron-1887-1921
libcom.org Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Content by or about the revolutionary union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Post #1281 157
Fanya Baron, the Young Revolutionary Anarchist Who Was Executed by the Bolshevik Security Police in the Soviet Union!
Note by the Persian translator (Hasse-Nima Golkar) about the author:
“Nick Heath” was born in 1948 in the city of Brighton, East Sussex [England]. He began his political activity at the age of 14 as a member of the Young Socialists of the Labour Party and subsequently of the Young Communist League. In 1966, after reading anarchist books in the library, he became an anarchist-communist and participated in the formation of the Brighton Anarchist Group (1966–1972). He also briefly joined the “Anarchist-Syndicalist Alliance” and participated in publishing the “Black and Red Perspective” [Black and Red Outlook].
In the mid-1980s, in London, he was one of the founders of the “Anarchist-Communist Federation” (ACF), which was later renamed the “Anarchist Federation.” He is currently an active member of the “Anarchist-Communist Group” (Anarcho-Communist Group), which was founded in 2018.
Nick Heath is a historian, a retired employee of the Workers’ Library, and the author of many biographies concerning militant anarchists. He has also written articles about the Hungarian Revolution and the Third Russian Revolution, as well as the book The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future, which was published in 2022.
 
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Baron, Fanya aka Fanny Grefenson, aka Anisimovna aka Fanny Baron 1887-1921
Fanya Baron
A short biography of Fanya Baron, an idealistic young anarchist who suffered the brutality of both the US police and the Russian Cheka.
Author: Nick Heath
Submitted by Battlescarred on July 6, 2009
“Baron was of the type of Russian woman completely consecrated to the cause of humanity. While in America she gave all her spare time and a goodly part of her meagre earnings in a factory to further Anarchist propaganda. Years afterward, when I met her in Kharkov, her zeal and devotion had become intensified by the persecution she and her comrades had endured since their return to Russia. She possessed unbounded courage and a generous spirit. She could perform the most difficult task and deprive herself of the last piece of bread with grace and utter selflessness. Under harrowing conditions of travel, Fanya went up and down the Ukraina to spread the Nabat, organize the workers and peasants, or bring help and succour to her imprisoned comrades. She was one of the victims of the Butyrki raid, when she had been dragged by her hair and badly beaten. After her escape from the Ryazan prison she tramped on foot to Moscow, where she arrived in tatters and penniless. It was her desperate condition which drove her to seek shelter with her husband's brother, at whose house she was discovered by the Tcheka. This big-hearted woman, who had served the Social Revolution all her life, was done to death by the people who pretended to be the advance guard of revolution. Not content with the crime of killing Fanya Baron, the Soviet Government put the stigma of banditism on the memory of their dead victim.” My Further Disillusionment in Russia - Emma Goldman.
libcom.org Nick Heath Content by or about Nick Heath, a British anarchist, retired library worker, historian and member of the Anarchist Communist Group. He is the author of The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future, published 2022.
Post #1279 189
Field Report on Modern Famine in Iran (1405 / 2026)

In Iran in the year 1405, poverty no longer simply means reduced income or economic hardship; it has become the very structure of everyday life. It is visible in empty refrigerators, in the queues outside pharmacies, in the shared notebooks of two siblings, and in dinner tables where nothing but potatoes, eggs, and bread has appeared for weeks. This report is the story of a silent crisis: a country where food exists, but the ability to afford it does not.

Across working-class neighborhoods and the urban margins, families no longer make choices about nutrition—they choose only between hunger and temporary fullness. Potatoes have become the cheapest source of calories, while eggs represent the last affordable form of protein. Meat, dairy products, fruit, and even many legumes have disappeared from the tables of millions. The result is not merely hunger, but bodies gradually consumed by anemia, weakness, malnutrition, stunted development, and an increasing march toward illness and premature death.

Poverty deprives people of more than comfort; it strips them of the right to healthcare. In today's Iran, the significance of an illness—and whether it is treatable—is often determined less by a doctor's diagnosis than by the balance of a family's bank account. Countless patients postpone essential tests, leave prescriptions unfinished, or simply learn to live with pain because treatment has become financially impossible. For households whose income is already consumed by rent and food, a single MRI scan or a course of medication can mean the collapse of the family's entire economy.

The same logic has transformed education into a class privilege. Children attend school in worn-out uniforms, share notebooks with their brothers and sisters, and sometimes complete homework in the very same exercise book. Many cases of school dropout never appear in official statistics. They are presented as voluntary decisions, while the economic forces behind them remain carefully concealed. For countless children, leaving school begins the moment earning money for rent or bread becomes more urgent than attending class.

What is unfolding in Iran today is not a classical famine caused by the physical absence of food. It is a modern economic famine: a condition in which supermarket shelves remain full while people's purchasing power has been emptied. The shelves are stocked, yet refrigerators are bare. Bread exists, but many cannot afford to buy it. Hunger is no longer the product of food scarcity; it is the consequence of inequality and the collapse of purchasing power.

Poverty in 1405 has a silent face. It rarely announces itself through statistics, yet it is written across the bodies of children, the anxiety of parents, unfinished medical treatments, and shrinking dinner tables. This is not merely an economic crisis—it is the gradual erosion of human dignity, where the most fundamental rights, from nutrition and healthcare to education, have become privileges determined by wealth.
Post #1278 316
The official music video "For Freedom" Vocals by «Delnia Razazi».
This work is a moving tribute to the ongoing struggle, unwavering resilience, and the memory of every soul who chose the path of dignity and freedom. A voice rising from the heart of collective pain to ignite the flame of hope for tomorrow.
Post #1276 386
They tried to bury us, but didn’t know we are seeds! New archive containing all Noblogs pages now open!
You can now find all the old noblogs.org pages, such as xy.noblogs.org, at xy.nUblogs.org.
At the end of August, the US government brought Autistici/Inventati (A/I) – and with it, the Noblogs blogs – to its knees. https://de.indymedia.org/node/859454 und https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/activist-blogging-platform-shuts-down-after-terrorism-designation/)
A subsequent statement from A/I reads as follows:
“So go forth and multiply. Copy us. Copy what we have done. Copy the code we have used. Copy the idea we have tried to give shape to. Or simply take what you need from us and remix it. If there is one thing our opponents fear and abhor – now, in the past and forever – it is our ability to spread the virus of self-governance and self-determination and to replicate infrastructures of resistance in a fractal manner.
Autistici/Inventati is not just us. Autistici/Inventati may die, but thousands have already been born and thousands more will emerge.”
We have taken the first step today. You can now access all previous Noblogs sites via .nublogs.org! Simply type the name of the website (which used to be [Name].noblogs.org) before .nublogs.org. Unfortunately, this is an archive and no new articles can be added.
Help one another and set up new servers!

https://nublogs.org/
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Post #1274 369
 
Statement by “Anarchist Front”
Regarding the
Restoration of Access to Our X Account
Our previous account on X (formerly Twitter), which was temporarily inaccessible following a hacking incident, has, with the help and support of our comrades, been restored and is once again under the control of “Anarchist Front” as of today.
We sincerely thank you for your continued support, trust, and patience.
 

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Post #1272 222

Forwarded from کتابخانه جبههٔ آنارشیستی

📚 News from Nowhere | William Morris, 1890

What might life look like beyond capitalism, class hierarchy, and centralized authority?

In News from Nowhere, English writer, artist, and revolutionary socialist William Morris imagines a future society without a conventional state, money, or capitalist organization of labour. Communities organize themselves through cooperation, while work becomes voluntary, meaningful, and connected to human needs rather than profit.

Morris was not straightforwardly an anarchist, but his rejection of domination and his vision of decentralized, cooperative communities brought his work into close conversation with anarchist and libertarian socialist thought.

More than a century later, the novel still asks a radical question: if our institutions were created by people, why should we assume they must exist forever?
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