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Batallon Bakunin

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Author @ PM Press. *Another War is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era* *Argentina, A Tale of Two Utopias: Anarchism - Soccer - Neoliberalism*

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Detuvieron a un dibujante acusado de “Antifa”: denuncian persecución y ataque a la libertad de expresión Detienen a un dibujante y trabajador universitario tras ser acusado de intimidación pública por publicaciones en sus redes sociales

"Según los abogados de la Gremial que lo representan, Nico está bien, todo lo bien que puede estar una persona detenida por haber hecho publicaciones en Instagram, por tener bufandas con consignas políticas o por acompañar a jubilados y jubiladas en las marchas..."

03.03.2026 12:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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La Cultura del Barrio: Sports, Antifascism & Neighborhood Power in Buenos Aires An antifascist social and sports club in Buenos Aires on grassroots power, neighborhood resistance, and organizing under Argentina’s right-wing turn.
02.03.2026 21:39 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Those of us who want to see the leap from riot to insurrection, to see this long, hot season stretch into an endless summer will need to find ways to contribute to this unfolding. 
This is often quite simple. One way in which anarchists make themselves useful is by holding onto the memory of lessons learned in previous struggles and experiments.

Those of us who want to see the leap from riot to insurrection, to see this long, hot season stretch into an endless summer will need to find ways to contribute to this unfolding. This is often quite simple. One way in which anarchists make themselves useful is by holding onto the memory of lessons learned in previous struggles and experiments.

02.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"We don't mourn neo-Nazis here!"

🇧🇪 The banner of the Ultras Inferno of Standard Liège, in yesterday's match against RAAL La Louvière in the Belgian first division.

The reference is to the case of the killing of French neo-Nazi activist Quentin Deranque.

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28.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

But any means is valid in the sensationalist campaign of criminalization & stigmatization of dissent.

A vulgar & cynical attack on free expression, considering the president of Argentina is constantly posting violent fantasies of harm & death against his perceived political enemies on social media.

28.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Police images from the raid display a collection of fanzines, buttons, & other design elements-- together with weapons & ammunition. The prominent images of the weapons obscure what is barely a buried footnote in the press articles: they are replicas.

28.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“Muerte a los enemigos del pueblo”: detuvieron a un simpatizante Antifa por amenazas a Patricia Bullrich Le encontraron varias armas, réplicas de un fusil de asalto AK-47, cinturones con municiones de grueso calibre y materiales para la fabricación de cócteles molotov

The journalist sets the sights, the cops pull the trigger.

A few days ago the "Ministry of National Security" raided the home of an antifascist graphic designer. He remains in detention & is accused of "public threats & intimidation" for a design of his reading "death to the enemies of the people."

28.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Things are not going well down here.

28.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Last week, towards the end of the demonstration, a few people hurled Molotovs at the police line. They were quickly identified, their faces blasted across newspapers and TV screens, & promptly arrested.

28.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The bureaucratic mainstream union couldn't be bothered to do more than call for a 24 hour general strike-- without even calling for an accompanying mobilization. Today, as well as on the day of the debate in the house, the union, grassroots, & left-wing party mobilization was discreet at best.

28.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The "libertarian" labor reform is about to become law in Argentina, likely in the next few hours. It erases almost 100 years of concessions gained through struggle-- 12 hour workday, payments can be made in food, grave limitations on strikes & collective bargaining.

28.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 37    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 1

This never gets old...

28.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Há 25 anos ocorreu a revolta de 2001 na Argentina, que derrubou o governo e testemunhou a disseminação de assembleias de bairro e a ocupação de fábricas por trabalhadores.
Pour en savoir plus, o livro de um participante na revolta, Tomas Rothaus
Por vezes a história repete-se...

25.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New podcast episode out for all! Part 1 of our series on the 2001 Argentina uprising, which toppled the govt, and led to a wave of factory takeovers and neighbourhood assemblies. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e115... #WorkingClassHistoryWednesday

25.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 40    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1
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Mort de Quentin à Lyon : contre-enquête au cœur d’une ville gangrénée par la violence d’extrême-droite La mort de Quentin Deranque à Lyon, à la suite d’une bagarre survenue le 12 février, a enflammé l’extrême droite. Les enquêteurs ont interpellé onze personnes, présumées innocentes à ce stade. Parmi e...

[THREAD 🧶] Pour @blast-info.fr, j'ai enquêté avec Thierry Vincent sur la mort de Quentin.

Le déroulé des faits, le profil de Quentin ainsi que le contexte de violence de l'extrême-droite à Lyon racontent une autre histoire que celle qu'on entend partout.

www.blast-info.fr/articles/202...

20.02.2026 10:57 — 👍 32    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 2
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#WorkingClassHistoryWednesday! New bonus episode for our Argentina miniseries: we talk to Tomas Rothaus about the struggle over the memory of the Dirty War, and the importance of the 2001 uprising for the anti-globalisation movement. Out now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e116-1...

18.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 27    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance.

Our top story, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: Wearing black, owning zines, using the encrypted messaging app Signal. The broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance as the government builds its "antifa conspiracy."

21.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 163    🔁 112    💬 7    📌 10

Avec le temps, quand le FN prendra le pouvoir, on se dira que la Jeune Garde ont été les premiers résistants.

20.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Revfront media - Hembesök hos Liselott Lööf's VD Hans-Göran Grännby
YouTube video by RedAction1 Revfront media - Hembesök hos Liselott Lööf's VD Hans-Göran Grännby

Somewhere between political organization & street gang, they were not without shortcoming & controversies, but their legacy remains critical history.
@pmpress.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mq...

20.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Rise Of Sweden's Far-Left Militants
YouTube video by VICE News The Rise Of Sweden's Far-Left Militants

For their audacity, their explicit rejection of "scene" codes, their uncompromising stance, & their refusal to sacrifice political clarity for the sake of antifascism.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MY...

20.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Excited that I can finally share the existence of this upcoming book about Swedish revolutionary antifascist organization "Revolutionary Front," for which I had the honor of writing the preface. RF was a standout in the history of antifascist organizing.

www.pmpress.org/productsheet...

20.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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We did an interview with DIY Conspiracy discussing history & present of LCDB, Latam's only explicitly antifascist sporting & social club- as well as Argentina's broader political context today & how it relates to the social, political, & cultural work of the club.

diyconspiracy.net/la-cultura-d...

20.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Just answered, sorry about the delay!

05.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Part 2 of my, shockingly thorough, conversation with @workingclasshistory.com about all things Argentina, with particular emphasis on the anti-neoliberal uprising of December 2001.
@pmpress.bsky.social

04.02.2026 20:48 — 👍 34    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0
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Building Our Revolutionary Character: Interview With an American YPJ Volunteer on the Situation in Rojava On January 13th, the Syrian Transitional Government launched a major offensive on the territories under control of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (DAANES) – the first it ...

NEW INTERVIEW 🚩

“They were mothers and grandmothers that were picking up weapons. There were wounded fighters still in their wheelchairs that were creating military units and were declaring their preparation to fight.

It is a full mobilization.”

04.02.2026 05:38 — 👍 84    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 3

"Corporate citizen." What a country.

01.02.2026 07:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"dEmoCrAcY" & "fReE pREsS"

31.01.2026 21:26 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this. You don’t need some big theoretical analysis; there’s no level of abstraction to move through. It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide. I don’t think you have to be a professional psychologist to understand why dramatic, attention-grabbing suicide might be appealing to semi-employed guys who spend 14 hours a day watching Asmongold or whatever. Its promise is that all the pain and frustration you feel can be visited on the people you believe authored it--and then ended. Not to put too fine a point on this, but this is school-shooter ideology.

And as the D.H.S. tweet of the penguin meme makes clear, the Suicide Right case for Trump is that he gets this. The reward for supporting him is oblivion. He and I.C.E. and the C.B.P. are the armored bulldozer giving you the chance to kill immigrants and liberal white women and male nurses before you put a gun in your mouth. His administration is the plane, just waiting for you to get inside. I guess 2024 was a Flight 93 election, after all.

Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this. You don’t need some big theoretical analysis; there’s no level of abstraction to move through. It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide. I don’t think you have to be a professional psychologist to understand why dramatic, attention-grabbing suicide might be appealing to semi-employed guys who spend 14 hours a day watching Asmongold or whatever. Its promise is that all the pain and frustration you feel can be visited on the people you believe authored it--and then ended. Not to put too fine a point on this, but this is school-shooter ideology. And as the D.H.S. tweet of the penguin meme makes clear, the Suicide Right case for Trump is that he gets this. The reward for supporting him is oblivion. He and I.C.E. and the C.B.P. are the armored bulldozer giving you the chance to kill immigrants and liberal white women and male nurses before you put a gun in your mouth. His administration is the plane, just waiting for you to get inside. I guess 2024 was a Flight 93 election, after all.

disturbingly plausible

30.01.2026 19:35 — 👍 2528    🔁 602    💬 98    📌 153

Listen to me speak for surprisingly long about the obscure & unexpected link between what was once one of the world's largest anarchist movements (over 100 years ago) & its lasting legacy on... football clubs in Argentina in the present day.

Or of course read the book. Or ideally do both.

29.01.2026 16:33 — 👍 31    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0

This is great and recommended reading, but also @igd.bsky.social is back among us!

28.01.2026 19:11 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0