Anarchic update news all over the world - 28 December 2016

Today's Topics:

   
1.  US, Workers Solidarity Alliance WSA - ideas and action:
      Solidarity with the #NoDAPL Resistance (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Decembre - COP21, one year
      on: Resisting the Gravediggers of the Planet (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  WSM, derry anarchists: Derry's First Radical Bookfair 28th
      Jan. 2017 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 4.  Britain, freedom news: So we're out of Europe...
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  Britain, freedomnews: Mexico: 50 anarchist groups "at war"
      with State and capital (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



The Workers Solidarity Alliance would like to express our solidarity with the 
indigenous-led struggle against the ecologically destructive Dakota Access Pipeline during 
the Global Weeks of Solidarity (Sept 3rd – 17th).  Further, we condemn the repression of 
the resistance in the strongest possible terms. ---- We call on all working-class 
militants to join solidarity actions in their cities and provide material support for the 
Sacred Stone and Red Warrior camps which are on the frontline of the struggle.  Continued 
construction and transport labor on this pipeline needs to be recognized as scab-labor by 
the larger labor movement and condemned accordingly.  We encourage individual members of 
the labor movement as well as organizations who share this perspective to sign on to this 
open letter penned by the IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus.

We call on all public and private entities with a security interest in the Dakota Access 
Pipeline’s completion to cease all repressions, release all prisoners and go home to their 
families.  You are on the wrong side – your actions will not be forgotten – the resistance 
is winning.

In Solidarity!

http://ideasandaction.info/2016/09/solidarity-nodapl-resistance-2

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Message: 2



Apart from some tentative advances in ecology, the post-COP 21 has mainly resulted in 
inconsistent announcement effects. It is necessary to remember the stakes of the climate 
issue and to continue the struggle. ---- We knew we could not expect anything from COP21, 
heads of state, business leaders and financiers. Yet the media hype and militant activism 
provoked by the event had raised awareness among the population. But the news - attacks, a 
state of emergency and imperialist wars - had the effect of evacuating the climate 
concern, in favor of a climate of fear and authoritarianism. It is time to change the 
social climate, not the climate. For this, a brief reminder is necessary. ---- 
Insufficient official solutions ---- The target set by COP21 was to avoid global warming 
of 2 ° C or more. A 2 ° C warming would imply a decrease in agricultural yields (famines 
for 200 000 people), a lack of drinking water (1.8 billion people concerned), an increase 
in sea level (10 million people would be affected) , Extension of the malaria zone (50 
million deaths), extinction of 15 to 37% of the living species. Beyond 2 ° C, the 
consequences would be even more dramatic: agricultural yields could collapse, the lack of 
drinking water could affect 4 billion people, the rise in sea level up to 300 million 
People, extending the malaria area 400 million people, extinction of living species (this 
sixth extinction is already under way) could threaten humanity itself.

To avoid reaching both 2 ° C, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be reduced by 
25% by 2020 and by 80% by 2050 (compared to 1990 Increased since). For the "developed" 
countries, the main emitters of GHGs, the objective would be even more important: to 
reduce emissions by 40% by 2020 and by 95% by 2050.

For France, the main sources of GHG emissions are transport (about 28%), agriculture 
(21%), industry (18%), housing and the tertiary sector (18% Energy (12%), waste and other 
(3%). Deforestation, which would be responsible for a 17% increase in global GHG 
emissions, also has an influence on global warming.

The official solutions - mainly geo-engineering and greenwashing - will be largely 
insufficient. Drastically reduce the overall consumption of raw materials and energy. This 
presupposes, at a minimum: the abolition of programmed and social obsolescence, disposable 
products, disposable packaging and overpacks; Development of short circuits, transport and 
utilities, soft technologies (low tech), improvement of the insulation of the habitats, 
production giving priority to the most basic needs. Beyond that, certain social choices 
will certainly be necessary (eg, dropping digital, or conservation with compensatory 
abandonments in other areas).

Such changes will necessarily contradict the logic of capital. To ensure its growth, 
capitalism must always produce more, consuming more and more material and exploiting ever 
more labor power. Always producing with proportionately less labor power, capital is 
already struggling to recover, generating a deep systemic crisis. If it pursues its 
desperate course of recovery, it will necessarily lead to major ecological crises: 
scarcity of resources, thus cessation of the system and brutal recession, or extinction of 
species leading to that of the human species itself. If, conversely, ecological needs are 
seriously taken into account, the resulting measures will only aggravate the economic 
crisis. To limit the scale of global warming, we must leave capitalism!

States are showing increasing authoritarianism: liberticidal laws, the use of a prolonged 
state of emergency, a surge in extreme rights, reflect a trend towards the establishment 
of potentially permanent states of emergency. With capitalism, ecological constraints will 
apply in the sense of class justice. The better-off classes will always have access to 
high consumption, material and technological comfort, and the most favorable residential 
areas; The poorest will have to adapt to extremely degraded material conditions. Such a 
situation would entail numerous social challenges. The repressive and liberticidal arsenal 
developed without limits by the present states will be an ideal tool to break the social 
revolts and to establish the order of class in context of ecological crisis. It is 
therefore necessary to struggle without any further delay for a libertarian society where 
decisions will be taken at the grass roots, in the sense of interest and well-being, and 
not by elected representatives who represent only themselves and Defend their class interests.

According to the UN, the number of climate refugees would rise to 250 million by 2050. By 
comparison, according to the United Nations, the current number of refugees would be 65 
million. The European capitalist states are already surpassed by the one million Syrian 
and Syrian refugees. How will they manage, in the coming decades, the much larger influx 
of migrants and climate migrants? With the current trend, nationalist, racist and 
xenophobic reactions will multiply. Against this inhuman society, we must defend freedom 
of movement and settlement, international mutual aid and the prospect of a cosmopolitan 
society! Global warming reflects the global systemic crisis. The response must be 
translated into anti-capitalist, self-governing, anti-racist and internationalist 
struggle. At global crisis, global struggle!

Floran (AL Marne)

The COP22 in Marrakech

The famous Paris agreement of the 21st Conference on Climate (COP21) entered into force on 
November 4, 2016, while COP22 (November 14-18 in Marrakech) presented itself as the 
conference of its implementation , Although it opened on the election D. Trump, 
self-proclaimed enemy of any environmental measure. Moreover, the measures promised in 
Paris from economic transition to a less consumer model do not come, crushed under a 
system of growth, consumption and competition unchanged. What is the value of this 
umpteenth Marrakech COP? A pure diplomatic product, where the communities most affected 
ecologically try to claim, via the too meager global funding, their due to the powers that 
destroyed their ecosystems, while emerging countries like India negotiate like the others 
their right to pollute . On the sidelines, opponents and opponents of COP22 held an 
important mobilization, against fossil energies, or making the link between migration and 
ecological issues. But the only realization, without the power, has no concrete effect.

* Interesting articles about projects and laws that must decline climate goals, as well as 
their obvious difficulties, the sites www.euractiv.fr .

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?COP21-un-an-apres-Resister-aux

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Message: 3



On Saturday 28th January 2017 the first ever Derry Radical Bookfair will take place in 
Pilots Row Community Centre, Rossville Street, Derry, BT48 6LP. ---- The event takes place 
on one of the busiest days of the political calendar in the city which is during the 
Bloody Sunday week of events. Each year the same venue itself hosts the annual Bloody 
Sunday events such as talks, films and discussions around contemporary social justice 
issues. --- At the moment the Derry Radical Bookfair organising collective are finalising 
details. Click on link below for more information:www.derryradicalbookfair.wordpress.com
If you are an independent bookseller, distributor or publisher and would like to sell and 
distribute books, pamphlets, publications and other merchandise then please get in touch. 
Likewise If you would like to have your social justice group or campaign to have a stall 
at this event to highlight an issue or campaign then please make contact.

The Derry Radical Bookfair will help promote and display books of local, national and 
international interest including social and labour history as well as themes covering 
radical feminism, queer liberation, anarchism, marxism, republicanism and environmentalism.

On the same day this year the venue will also play host to an International Food Fair as 
well as the Derry Radical Bookfair.
Look forward to hearing from you.

Email. radicalbookfair@gmail.comOnline. www.derryradicalbookfair.wordpress.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/derryradicalbookfair

http://derryanarchists.blogspot.co.il/

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Message: 4



In the months leading up this year's referendum on the UK's continued membership of the 
European Union I observed lots of discussion - mainly on social media - between anarchists 
who intended on engaging with the ballot box for the first time in a long time, or in some 
cases, the first time ever. I couldn't understand why so many people were prepared to 
break ranks and participate in bourgeois democracy. I was told that "This one is 
different" and "We need the EU to protect us from the Tories." ---- Essentially, every 
argument I heard for voting in the referendum were the same arguments - albeit re-worded - 
that I have heard through all of my life for voting for the Labour Party. The idea that 
the EU is a benevolent bulwark that protects the working class against an unscrupulous 
right-wing domestic government is at best naive, and at worst, dishonest. The radical 
left-wing case for Brexit was subsequently smothered by claims that: "A vote to leave is a 
vote for the Tories" - the same vacuous bullshit that has been used by the zombie left any 
time someone has dared to look beyond the Labour Party.

Let us be clear what the EU actually is. It is a bosses' club. It was concieved as a 
bosses' club. It was created and expanded as a means for business to operate more 
effectively and to become a trading block to be able to compete (bully) other trading 
blocks and countries around the world: ie., If you want to sell coffee, tea etc in the EU, 
you will do it on our terms or you can forget it.

Any benefit to the working class, such as free movement, is merely a by-product of its 
primary role, which is to help business function more profitably.

The EU is a government the same as any other. The only real difference is that it is even 
more unwieldy, wasteful, bureaucratic and less democratic than most European national 
governments. How the pro-EU left can claim that it is democratic is beyond me. It patently 
isn't. They would have you believe that the EU is some kind of worker's paradise and that 
everything in the garden is rosy.

Attitudes towards the EU are deeply entrenched and have been developed over decades - not 
necessarily following party lines. While it was a yes or no choice, people had differing 
reasons for wanting to stay or to leave. Both sides of the debate told huge lies, and 
stoked up fears about our futures, but I suspect that most people who voted had already 
made their minds up before the campaign started. Yes, it is clear that the Leave 
Campaign's "The £350 million we send the EU could be spent on the NHS" claim was a huge 
whopper. That said, the vast majority of people who voted to leave did so on the strength 
of immigration issues - either outright bigots, or people who have swallowed the 
right-wing narrative and media distortion.

For anarchists the choice is the same as it has always been. Which set of bosses do you 
want? There really isn't any choice. They give you with one hand what they take away with 
the other. Yes, leaving the EU may help the Tories erode conditions at work etc, but we 
can fight and win them back. Just as we always have. If there is racism on the rise then 
we will fight it as we always have done. My politics aren't about settling for second 
best. If they were I would join the Labour Party and be happy trying to polish the turd of 
capitalism.

I didn't vote in the EU referendum for the same reasons I don't vote in elections. That 
said, anything that erodes away bourgeois government and bureacracy - at whatever level - 
can only be a good thing. Anarchists that smugly tell me that a vote for Brexit is a vote 
for the Tories should ask themselves why they didn't vote for Labour in the last general 
election? Surely by their logic, not voting is a vote for the Tories?

Some may claim that a referendum is different to an election as it brings decision making 
closer to the people - rather than in the hands of elected representatives (therefore 
anarchists should vote). However as we have seen since the referendum there are 
politicians demanding it be ignored, lobbying for a vote in parliament, and even calls for 
another referendum. So much for giving "choice" to the people.

Like anything, the devil is in the detail, and when the dust settles we may be better off 
or worse off. Either way, as an anarchist I will keep fighting, just as I always have done.

MB

This article first appeared in the Winter 2016 edition of Freedom anarchist journal

https://freedomnews.org.uk/so-were-out-of-europe/

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Message: 5



This translated article by investigative magazine Contralinea, originally submitted to US 
anarchist site It's Going Down, looks at the rise of insurrectionist anarchism in Mexico 
over the last few years. All footnotes by the translator. ---- In Mexico there is an 
ongoing anarchist insurrection with 50 groups and cells at war with the State and capital. 
The seriousness of the "black threat" has caused the National Risk Agenda[1]to give it 
priority attention, ahead of the red guerrillas[2], with only drug trafficking and social 
uprisings given a higher priority. ---- Let the night illuminate and rock the city; let 
the roar awaken the powerful in their bondage. May the sound of bullets stir the 
repressive arms; and shake their civil and financial temples. The Revolution is today and 
will not wait for the masses to organise. It is the contagious fever of the 
insurrectionist clandestine anarchist. It spreads, celebrates, between readings, debates, 
concerts; and conspires night after night.

In the first four years of President Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term, this anarchist 
insurrection has continued to materialise with at least 40 "violent direct actions" 
against government offices, banks, malls, major projects, and interests of big business: 
armed clashes, attacks, explosions, fires, sabotage, destruction, and boycotts. And due to 
the "politics of national security," these insurrectionary acts are not usually divulged 
to the media. Of the 50 groups, only those which have publicly claimed acts are known.

The effervescence of the clandestine insurrectionist anarchist movement has not gone 
unnoticed by the intelligence and security organisations of the Mexican State. Today, the 
anarchist threat occupies a high degree of attention in the intelligence community, only 
coming in behind the drug trade and social movements, according to the National Risk 
Agenda of 2015, documented by a "confidential" actor who works at the Center for 
Investigation and National Security (CISEN).

In the last eight years, almost 50 anarchist groups of the insurrectionist tendency have 
done more than 220 direct actions against the interests of capital and the state. The 
count is contained in the case file Acciones de grupos autodenominados anarquistas, 
insurreccionalistas, eco extremistas y/o eco terroristas, created by the civil 
intelligence organisation of the Mexican state, CISEN.

The 2013, 2014, and 2015 versions of the National Risk Agenda, to which Contralínea had 
access, also took note of the emerging anarchist threat preoccupying the intelligence 
community, whose job it is to feed products for consumption to the Armed Forces and the 
civil organisations of national security. According to these confidential documents it is 
recognised by the intelligence community that authorities do not currently have a 
"consistent inter-institutional scheme to address the subject."

According to the report, produced by CISEN from internal information and intelligence from 
other governmental agencies which make up the National Security Council, the actions of 
insurrectionist anarchists "are becoming increasingly violent." In the "General 
Diagnostic" of the chapter dedicated to anarchism, it also notes a "radicalisation of 
actions from anarchist direct action cells." According to the document, in the face of the 
anarchist insurrection, the biggest known vulnerability of the Mexican State is "due to 
the lack of physical protection at strategic facilities." The risk grade assigned to this 
"vulnerability" is "high."

The insurgents

Although the document identifies "306 actions" committed by 74 organisations between the 
March 26th 2008 and the July 22nd 2015, they are not all the work of anarchists. Around 
220 have been carried out by anarchists and their insurrectionist stripe, 40 so far during 
the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto. Another 82 actions committed by 26 groups are 
actually the work of eco-terrorists or eco-extremists. In addition, four have been claimed 
by two fascist groups.

The document does not establish whether or not all the groups or actions, as can be 
inferred, are committed by cells of larger organisations that in other attacks have used 
different names.

In the past eight years the most active insurrectionist anarchist groups have been, 
according to the document prepared by CISEN: the Earth Liberation Front, with 52 direct 
actions, The Animal Liberation Front, with 44; The Autonomous Cells of Immediate 
Revolution Práxedis G Guerrero (CARI-PGG), with 32; the Informal Anarchist Federation with 
30; and among others the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, with 12.

As a group, the CARI-PGG were disbanded in November 2013. However they remained active for 
almost five years. As stated in a 2016 communiqué, those who joined them stopped acting as 
CARI-PGG but individually and as other groups, continuing the insurrectionist anarchist 
attacks and direct actions.

Some of the actions in this anarchist tendency have been carried out in coordinated 
attacks by two or more groups. Mexico City has experienced the highest number of attacks: 
91. Other states with more than 10 direct actions committed by insurrectionist anarchists 
from 2008 to date are The State of Mexico[3], and Jalisco, with 16. Between one and nine 
direct actions have occurred in Oaxaca, Baja California, Guanajuato, Veracruz, Coahuila, 
Durango, San Luis Potosí, Quintana Roo, Chihuahua, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, 
Tlaxcala y Puebla.

Attacks against universities and research centres

In a response to Contralínea, CISEN emphasised that "the term anarchist is not specified 
in current Mexican legislation. It also says that the agency "does not attribute the claim 
of attacks to any individual or group identified by their ideology."

The institute for protecting national security persecutes "violent groups." "It is the 
objective of any authority to contain violent acts, a situation unrelated to ideologies." 
This is what they highlighted in the response to the request for public information. But, 
in the National Risk Agenda anarchism is denounced in general, even those anarchists who 
don't claim to be of the insurrectionist tendency. In the section about the 
"vulnerabilities" of the Mexican state, they highlight "the lack of a legal framework to 
limit the organising of anarchist groups." This consideration denotes a "medium" level of 
risk. Anarchist organising of any type is now under the magnifying glass of national security.

In addition, the document considers groups as anarchists that aren't anarchist - and are 
even opposed to anarchism, such as Individualists Tending towards the Wild (ITS)[4]. This 
organisation has claimed the assassination of administrative workers, scientists and 
attacks against the university and centers of study.

However, the Agenda points out that: "anarchist cells slowly increase their levels of 
radicalism, particularly that of ITS, which has threatened attacks against human objectives."

Even attacks by insurrectionist anarchists are not distinguished from those attributed to 
other post-modern groups like ITS and other related groups that have claimed to be 
anti-civilisation, like Wild Reaction.[5]

There are also examples of fascist or neo-Nazi organizations, like Tenochtitlan Salvation 
Front and its Secret Organisation of Leaders of Tenochtitlan who say they are trying to 
restore the "sacred" "Aztec nation" and "put in power" those who would "guarantee the 
protection of the natural rights of the human species".

Overall, for the military and the intelligence communities, all of these groups are 
"anarchists" and labelled as such. And in the General Diagnosis it is highlighted that 
"attacks against banks, institutions and individuals linked to research centers and direct 
actions against human targets with terrorist links are to be expected."

It also states that "members of anarchist groups operate together as attack groups during 
social moblisations." Among the "risk scenarios" envisioned by the National Risk Agenda 
they point out the "possibility of direct actions with high impact: bombings and 
explosions against human targets, and the expansion of anarchist groups due to the lack of 
a legal framework to coordinate against specific anarchistic threats." This situation 
leads to another, equally considered "risk scenario": the "negative impact on perception 
of the citizen security brought on by the reactivation of (anarchist) groups."

A coming strike against the anarchists

In regards to the "capacities" of government entities to confront these insurrectionist 
anarchists, the National Risk Agenda highlights "inter-institutional intelligence work: 
Sedena, Semar, Segob, in the zones of (anarchist) attacks" (sic).

Among the "recommendations" of the National Security Council contained in the National 
Risk Agenda  are: "strengthening the inter-institutional scheme to address (anarchism)", 
as well as the "relaunching of operative groups within CISEN focused on specific 
objectives" (sic).

The operating groups are, in the words of the intelligence services, those who are in 
charge of specific special missions: for example, covert actions, follow-ups, 
infiltrations, for home invasion or that of an institution for surveillance. In some 
countries the operational groups are tasked with the elimination of those who make 
"attempts" against the "security" of the State.

Insurrection in the middle of the country

The National Risk Agenda recognises the presence of anarchist "direct action" cells in 
five regions of the republic: Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Morelos, Oaxaca and Baja 
California. In the first three regions mentioned there are anarchist collectives. In 
Oaxaca anarchists are found in State capital and in the fringes of the Central Valley, 
Sierra Norte and Sierra Sur. In Baja California they are listed as being in the city of 
Mexicali. However among the list of direct actions by insurrectionist anarchists presented 
by CISEN, 17 of the 32 regions of the Republic are counted: Mexico City, the State of 
Mexico, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Baja California, Guanajuanto, Veracruz, Coahuila, Durango, San 
Luis Potosí, Quintana Roo, Chihuahua, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Tlaxcala and Puebla.

National security: The rise of anarchism

Up until the 2013 version of the National Risk Agenda, anarchism has been considered one 
of the top 10 immediate issues for national security, and was then raised to fifth, 
ranking it as a form of guerrilla warfare. This places them in the company of armed 
movements such as the Zapatistas (EZLN), el Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo Insurgente 
(ERPI), el Ejército Popular Revolucionario (EPR) and, among others, the Tendencia 
Democrática Revolucionaria-Ejército del Pueblo (TDR-EP). All these appear together with 
insurrectionist anarchist cells in a single chapter of the confidential document at the 
hands of the Interior Secretary in charge of CISEN.

In 2014 anarchism was assigned an independent section and put into fourth place - the 
guerrilla movements remained in fifth. Then last year the National Risk Agenda, due to 
insurrectionists' actions, bumped the anarchist threat level to third priority for 
civilian and military institutions in charge of defense and national security: Sedena, 
Semar, the CISEN, the Segob, the PGR, and among others, the Federal Police. The anarchist 
insurrection increased in focus, while the red guerrilla groups' priority level fell 
dramatically.

 From boycott to armed confrontation

According to the information collected by Contralínea - from libertarian distribution 
portals, among which Contrainfo stands out - insurrectionist anarchist groups and cells 
performed more than 20 direct actions against specific targets between May 2015 and 
September 2016. The actions ranged from boycotts to armed confrontations. The spectrum of 
acts include sabotage, attacks, placement of fake bombs, detonation of explosives and 
fires. These are only the direct actions that are documented. The real number is difficult 
to project because not all acts are claimed. Generally, the police don't tell the media of 
possible insurrectionist anarchist attacks.

The most recent coordinated attacks were the work of Grupo Autónomo de Sabotaje Salvador 
Olmos García. On July 3rd, they setup and detonated an explosive-incendiary packages at 
the headquarters of three of the main Mexican business organisations.

Salvador Olmos García is the name of a young anarchist, organiser of indigenous 
neighborhoods, punk singer, lawyer and local journalist who was assassinated by police in 
Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca, on June 28th. Olmos had been apprehended by police earlier that 
day, when he had responded to a call by the community radio Tuun Ñuu Savi to help defend 
the space from police eviction. Chava was arrested by a police patrol and beaten. This 
event caused activist groups all over the state, and even, several entities throughout the 
Republic to react and five days later came the attack on high-level agencies.

The Contrainfo website has reported attacks against the Ciudad de México del Consejo 
Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), the Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana 
(Coparmex) and the Cámara Nacional de la Industria de la Transformación (Canacintra). In all:

There is no possible solution for the oppressed within the margins of their institutions, 
without the uncompromising struggle against capital and the State, that makes possible a 
scenario open to general insurrection[and]that establishes a dialect of spontaneity and 
organization, social peace in the Mexican region and throughout the globe.

Death to the State and Capital!

Freedom for all poltical prisoners!

For Anarchy!

"Grupo Autónomo de Sabotaje Salvador Olmos García"

[1]CISEN (Center for Research and National Security) is a Méxican intelligence agency. The 
Agenda is a part of CISEN that "identifies risks and threats to National Security" 
http://www.cisen.gob.mx/ingles/NatRiskAgenda.html & 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro_de_Investigación

[2]An incomplete list, but provides a general idea of who these "red guerrillas" are in 
contrast to the poorly chosen name 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guerrilla_movements#Mexico

[3]The State of México is one of 32 Federal entities of the México 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Mexico

[4]ITS, https://anarchistnews.org/tags/its

[5]Wild Reaction, https://anarchistnews.org/tags/wild-reaction

https://freedomnews.org.uk/mexico-50-anarchist-groups-at-war-with-state-and-capital/

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