Transcribing the Past

     The sixth issue of the Al Amal newsletter is now live, you can download the PDF here.  The war in Sudan has now entered its third year … The war in Sudan has now entered its third year, with no end in sight. This war was planned as early as 2019, as the generals of blood themselves admitted, stating that its timing had been set back then, but was delayed due to incomplete preparations. What a horrifying reality. This state has always been one that plans and orchestrates internal wars, suppresses freedoms by every possible means, and perpetuates continuous brutal violence. This regime, which carries out systematic arrests, organized torture in so- called “ghost houses,” and extrajudicial killings, now stands fully exposed before the revolutionary masses. The Rapid Support Forces are not separate from this regime; they are its product—an extension of its brutality and savagery. All the crimes committed, including ethnic cleansing and genocide, are a direct result...

   This is a double issue of the Al Amal (Hope) newsletter, produced by the Sudanese Anarchist Gathering. Taken from the website of the French CNT-AIT .      JUNE 30 AND THE SUDANESE REVOLUTION: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHIST REFLECTION ON THE REVOLUTION'S DILEMMA AND THE CONFLICT WITH ISLAMISTS On June 30, the Sudanese street returns to movement and turmoil. This date is no longer just a number on a calendar; it has become a mirror of the rebellious collective consciousness and a cry against renewed tyranny under new guises. From an anarchist perspective, this day cannot be viewed merely as a celebration of struggle, but rather as a manifestation of a profound struggle between the masses seeking complete liberation and the forces of the regime— whatever its form—that are reproducing control. 1. The revolution failed to dismantle the old regime: The Sudanese revolution was a spark of true freedom, but it fell into the trap of a "peaceful transition" engineered b...

    Vadimas his friends would like to remember him  El Libera Folio English Version Vadim Bikov was killed in the last days of May while serving at the front in Ukraine, he was 54 years old. He voluntarily joined the Ukrainian army immediately after the start of the war, and for over two years served in several dangerous hotspots along the frontline. He is mourned by his Esperantist wife, Julia Dmitrieva. Vadim Bikov was born on the 30th of November 1969 in Soviet Qazaqstan, and spent his childhood in Uzbekistan. He grew up with Russian language media and completed his education in Donbas in the east of Ukraine, and settled there.  When conflict erupted in Donbas in 2014 Vadim fled to unoccupied territory and joined the Ukrainian army to defend the country whose citizenship he had obtained after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  In February 2022 after Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine, Vadim joined the Territorial Defence and spent...

  Translated into English from an Esperanto language article hosted at Neniammilitointerni .  Since 2019 Azat Miftakhov has been imprisoned by the authorities of the Russian Federation. Azat is a young Mathematician and doctoral student at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and an Anarchist activist. He was sent to pre-trial detention for two years before being sentenced to a six-year prison term on trumped-up charges based on false testimony acquired through torture.  In fact, one of the two accusers whose testimony alleged that Azat threw a smoke grenade through the window of the office of United Russia, the political party of Putin, was conveniently found to have died before a cross-examination could take place.  A third "witness" is now a refuge in France and in March 2023 wrote to the online journal Mediapart, describing the torture he received by the FSB to secure a denunciation of Azat. Currently, that testimony has not been used against Azat, but it could...

  Stop the Barbarism! Once again the flames of war have sparked into life in the Palestine/Israel region. This time Hamas took the inciative to start the atrocities. They did not act alone in this attack, militants from the PFLP also took part in the armed assaults. The pictures are unbearable: civilians murdered in the streets, and in their homes, the taken of hostages etc. Although the Israeli government conducts a system of political Apartheid, which has even been acknowledged by Tamir Prado, the ex-director of Israel's Intelligence service. But that does not justify the conscious murder civilians. That is as condemnable as the murder of Palestinian civilans by the Israeli army! Without a doubt the response of the Israeli government will be just as terrible as it is blind. Already buildings in Gaza are being bombed and electricity has been cut throughout the whole territory.  We can only express our deepest fears and concern for the civilian inhabitants, Palestinian and Isr...

  Russia, the mirage of support for the war Source article .     Unmanned drones over the Kremlin, evacuation of civilians in the region of Belgorod, an attack on the nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin: In May, Kyiv intensified its operations on the territory of Russia. Will these symbolic actions really undermine the credibility of the government? Although the effect of the wave of patriotism still exists, criticism of the elites is also increasing and does not only concern opponents of the war... At first glance, the Russian ship of state appears to be weathering the storm the Kremlin unleashed when it invaded its Ukrainian neighbour. More than a year after the start of the war, the country's economy is in recession but has not collapsed (-2.1% in 2022). If we believe the results of opinion polling companies, even those independent of the state(1) 1 , a majority of the population still favours continuing the "special military operation". But the cracks in Russi...

    Help Anarchists in Ukraine resist the War and Winter Cold! Assembly is an online Anarchist communication group from Kharkiv, Ukraine ( https://assembly.org.ua ). Since the start of the aggression of the Army of the Russian Federation this group has firmly taken a stance in support of Anarchism and Internationalism, under difficult circumstances. Under the bombs of the Russian Federation, they participate in actions of fundamental solidarity and civil resistance without sinking to support for the Ukrainian government. On the contrary, they maintain a critical stand regarding the Ukrainian state and its leaders (whether national, regional or local), have exposed corruption at various levels of the administration and internal war profiteers. Assembly continues to give information to the workers and criticises local bosses who profit from the situation to increase exploitation of Ukrainian workers.  Assembly supports Anarchist, anti-state and anti-war ...

  Bildo: Manifestaciantoj protestas kontraŭ la ekzekuto de du gejaj adoleskantoj  la 5an de Aŭgusto 2005 en Manilo (Filipinoj) el neniammilitointerni Two LGBTQ activists Condemned to death in Iran The UN declared that it was "Very concerned" after the death sentence judgement in Iran against two same sex rights activists. They are accused of promoting homosexuality.  Both women, 31 year old Zahra Sedighi Hamedani and 24 year old Elham Chubdar were condemned to death by a tribunal in Urmia in the northwest of Iran.  "We are deeply concerned by the decision to sentence two LGBTQ activists to death in Iran" said Liz Throssell spokesperson for the bureau of rights at the UN.  She lamented that the two women were condemned "on the basis of a vague charge of `corruption on earth` and denied a fair legal trial".  This verdict is often given to those accused of violating the religious laws.  Homosexuality is prohibited in Iran, whose penal code punishes sexual...