On #ThisDayInHistory in 1919, timed to fit the second anniversary of the #RussianRevolution, the #PalmerRaids began in the US. #FBI and #police arrested over 6000 #anarchists & #socialists, deporting hundreds of them without #DueProcess. Such events are precedent for Trump's ICE.

“Less widely known is what remains of the grassroots revolutionary movement that helped ignite the uprising against al-Bashir. Among these forces is the Anarchist Group in Sudan (AGS), founded by students and young workers in 2017. During the revolution, its members helped organise resistance committees — neighbourhood assemblies that coordinated protests, strikes and mutual aid. After the military retook power and the civil war began, many AGS members were arrested, killed or forced underground. Others continued their work in secret: translating and printing anarchist texts, running communal kitchens, assisting displaced families and supporting local defence groups. With the support of international anarchist networks, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra, the AGS acquired a printing press to produce their own material, although constant fighting and repression have limited its use. For them, this is not simply a war between two generals, but the violent destruction of the revolution from below — a deliberate crushing of any attempt at self-organisation, autonomy and popular power.”

#sudan #anarchists #revolution
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/31/sudan-drowning-in-blood-and-hunger/

Sudan drowning in blood and hunger - Freedom News

Darfur is engulfed in atrocity, with famine, mass killings and displacement now defining what remains of Sudan’s revolution.

Freedom News

“We in the Anarchist Group in Sudan have lost comrades; some of our members were injured and some died; others face the imminent danger of war…We believed in anarchism in a land where authority is everywhere, and we fought to defend ourselves, our idea, and our unity.”

#anarchists #sudan
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“Today we need you — reach out your hands to us and stand with us so we can resist the authorities and the Janjaweed.”

donate, if you can, to link below👇🏽
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Anarchists at the No Kings Rallies

Following the call to establish an anti-authoritarian presence at the October 18 "No Kings" rallies, we reached out to anarchists in a dozen cities to hear how it went.

CrimethInc.

the grounds for Alexander Snezhkov’s 1st arrest were graffiti & his administration of the Telegram channels that published news about anti-war protests, partisan actions & animal rights. he got 5yrs. his new trial October 22 is based on the words of a State informant planted in his cell.

#russia #repression #prisoners #anarchists
https://abcireland.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/trial-begins-for-anarchist-prisoner-in-death-to-the-regime-graffiti/

Trial begins for Anarchist Prisoner in ‘Death to the Regime!’ Graffiti

In Chita a new trial starts against Alexander Snezhkov On October 22, 2025, the Second District Military Court in Chita will start hearing a new criminal case against anarchist Alexander Snezhkov. …

Derry Anarchist Black Cross
Prior to WWI, if the nation was at least mostly a representative democracy, the majority of #socialists and #anarchists were #pacifists . Unless there was no democratic method to achieve #Socialism or #anarchism, most believed they could make it happen over time using education with a freedom of the press and then enough voters would make it happen.
This ended when the most conservative wing of the party, the social democrats in Germany and other nations had just recently gotten the right to have a political party and they didn't want to be viewed as unpatriotic, so they voted for #WWI . The majority of leftists viewed the war as a war between monarchs that would decimate the working class. Which it very much did.
But the social democrats voted them into a bloody pointless war that wrecked Europe as the most expensive royal family feud in modern history. It is unknown whether this shaped Lenin's view of things but he didn't overthrow the czar, he overthrew an elected but dysfunctional government where a large minority were some flavor of leftist who voted to keep the war going, instead of try to end it, like what Lenin did.
Sadly Lenin and Trotsky were a complete outsiders to aristocratic negotiation and were utterly humiliated by their former German allies when thy tried to get the country out of the alliance causing them to lose 1/3rd of the Russian territory. They were only lucky they got it back at the end of the war as part of the deal was that Germany return all of their seized land including their colonies.
The world powers then helped back and fund the monarchist white army causing a civil war in Russia, including some US troops being deployed to help them fight by Wilson though the deployment was less than a year.
This impacted Lenin and #Trotsky deeply making them more paranoid and less trustful of foreign governments because they had never been given any good reasons to do so and the rest of the world tried to flood the nation with propaganda, funded by monarchies and giant corporations, so #Lenin and later #Stalin cracked down on the freedom of the press.
Nothing Lenin or Trotsky did were in a vacuum and everything they did made logical reasoning based on the world at the time. Sadly that set the #USSR for the rise of Stalin making it an authoritarian nation until his death on a level never seen before in modern history.

Whether it's #Antifa, #Anarchists, #Anonymous (the real one, not Q-Anon crappo), #Socialists, #Environmentalists, etc. -- seems to me that we're all fighting for the same thing! Getting rid of #Oligarchy / #Capitalism, ruling ourselves, and building a #sustainable life in harmony with Mother Earth and making adjustments for #ClimateChange (and preventing the problem from getting worse). And what is wrong with that? IMHO, nothing! Well, unless you're a billionaire / CEO / Oligarch!

#EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #Degrowth #Oiligarchy