Al Jazeera, “US authorities handle white supremacists with kid gloves while branding Antifa protesters ‘domestic terrorists'”

On June 12, 2017, New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (OHSP) added a new name to its list of “domestic terrorist” threats: Antifa. The report characterises “Antifa” as a group of “anarchist extremists” who “focus on issues involving racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism, as well as other perceived injustices,” a half-baked definition, while technically accurate, is […]

Fox 2 San Francisco, “UC Berkeley students charged with vandalism”

Chamu’s Facebook page included many messages that “were consistent with the graffiti messages,” such as “f— the police, rebellion, Black Lives Matter, God Bless Antifa, White Nationalism and supremacy, tech development and its negative impact on Black and Brown bodies,” Hong wrote. At Estrada’s home, officers found many items belonging to Chamu, as well as […]

The Guardian, “Why Anarchism is Better than Conventional Diplomacy”

The discussion is intense. One opposition leader, his voice shaking, warned the council diplomats that there would be genocide in his country. I have only belatedly learned that those on the ground usually have the best idea about how to solve conflict. Ultimately, such realisations led to a belief in a very different kind of […]