community activity

Accounts of community and locally-based organising

Asturias miners' strike photo gallery, 2012

After the government announced cuts to subsidies for Asturias' coal mines, thousands of miners have begun strikes and militant direct action in a…

Italy: NO TAV against fascism!

Last Friday 9th March, a small number of militants from the neofascist group Forza Nuova (“New Force”) protested outside the offices of the…

Valsusa in every city: NO TAV updates (Italy)

The last 10 days or so have seen a massive shift in the NO TAV struggle, with the state now trying to repress the movement more openly than ever:…

Susa march

75,000 say no, but government goes straight on

Update (27 february 2012, 11:00 am italian time): While we write, police forces are expanding the off-limit area, trying to clear the baita in…

You can’t arrest the whole Valley – support the NO TAV arrestees

How to support the NO TAV activists arrested on January 26. Support the campaign or, even better,…

Tenants union: Fight your landlord and win

A pamphlet on tenant union organizing by Buffalo Class Action, an anarchist political organization based in Buffalo, New York.

Placard outside squatted housing in Milan, 1971

Take over the city - community struggles in Italy - Rising Free (1974)

This pamphlet was produced by some people around the Rising Free bookshop in north London in 1974(?)…

Community Assembly in Christchurch (NZ): the fight back begins

Summary of a public assembly held in Christchurch, New Zealand, to organise the direction of…

The Flames of Phaphamani

Pedro Alexis Tabensky on recent events in Grahamstown, South Africa, and the increasing repression of poor people's movements there.

Residents confront police at the factory site in Jingxi county.

China: village residents clash with police over land grabs and factory pollution

More than 1,000 people threw rocks at police and blocked roads in southern China in protest at…

Large-scale protest in Gangkou Town, Jiangxi Province on July 5, 2010.

Ten thousand clash with police in south-east China

Villagers in China’s southeastern Jiangxi Province, upset over police brutality, relocation and corrupt local officials, have staged a large…

Villagers hold banner that reads: "Return my land".

Villagers clash with riot police over land grabs

Police deployed tear gas to dispel protesters, arresting dozens and injuring several people in Taiyun City, in China's Shanxi Province. The…