IndyWeek (NC), “Anti-Sharia Activists and Militia Members Protested in Raleigh Saturday. They Were Vastly Outnumbered.”
Around noon, some 250 counterprotesters, including Muslims and other people of faith, anarchists, and communists, converged at the southeast corner of the Capitol grounds. Yelling at the top of their lungs, the counterprotesters drowned out the speaker at the anti-sharia rally, while facing patriot militia members outfitted in biker and military dress holding American flags. […]
The Stranger, “See Nate Gowdy’s Photos from Saturday’s “March Against Sharia” and Counterprotest”
City employees, candidates for office, Antifa protesters, anarchists, socialists, and others showed up to denounce the “March Against Sharia.” Continue Reading
Bangor Daily News (ME), “Anti-Muslim activists march in numerous cities across the United States”
“We’re here protecting their rights, and they’re trying to shut us down!” Pax Hart, the organizer of the New York City rally told his audience, referring to the gathering of hundreds of leftist activists and masked anarchists across the street. “It’s insane!” Continue Reading
Al Jazeera, “Anti-Muslim marches held in several US cities”
In response, the Metropolitan Anarchists Coordinating Council (MACC) staged a noise demonstrations with hopes of drowning out anti-Muslim chants. “They have no intention of encouraging free speech,” Marisa Holmes, a spokesperson for MACC, told Al Jazeera by telephone. Continue Reading
Vice, “At the Drive-In Turned Me into a Border-Hating Communist”
The music was a roadmap that lead me to study fronterizo anarchists like Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón, communist chicana union organizers like Emma Temayuca, the Gorras Blancas‘s resistance to white settler-colonists in New Mexico, the defiant Texas-based Raza Unida Party… These were all voices that grew from the division of the US-Mexico border and […]
Al Jazeera, “From NATO to Antifa: One Afghan’s journey to Greece”
The Antifa activists – comprising anarchists, communists and other anti-racists – shout slogans against Golden Dawn in Greek. “Not in parliament, not anywhere,” chants a group of demonstrators carrying red flags. “Smash fascism everywhere.” Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Anarchists Fill Services Void Left by Faltering Greek Governance”
“People trust us because we don’t use the people as customers or voters,” Mr. Sagris said. “Every failure of the system proves the idea of the anarchists to be true.” Continue Reading
LA Weekly, “How A Day Without a Mexican Inspired a May Day Movement”
May Day is International Workers’ Day, or the real Labor Day according to socialists, unions, workers, communists, anarchists and basically anyone who respects the working classes as the foundations of a moral and fertile society. It began as a day to remember the atrocities of the Haymarket affair where anarchists and other leftists were crucified […]
Southern California Public Radio, “How did May Day become a day for immigrant rights marches?”
The incident was tied to the anarchist movement of the time — one reason the remembrance never took off in the United States, said Rivera-Salgado. Lawmakers instead established Labor Day on the first Monday of September as a national holiday in 1894. Continue Reading
Vermont Public Radio, “The Palmer Raids”
In late 1919, Federal and local authorities arrested more than two hundred individuals at New York City’s Union of Russian workers. On December 21st of that same year, two hundred and forty nine radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman, were deported to Russia on the USS Buford, which was dubbed “the Soviet Ark” by the press. […]