Kalimantan. Indonesia. WatchDoc’s new documentary “Kinipan” is causing a sensation in Indonesia: it tells how two environmentalists investigate the links between rainforest destruction and the pandemic. In times of covid, new laws and economic programs are acutely threatening the rainforest.
Continue reading Kinipan – A documentary about the deforestation of the rainforests in times of pandemic [Video, 158 Minutes]
Freedom for anarchists and subversive prisoners on hunger strike since 22 March in the territory dominated by the State of Chile!!
Continue reading Chile: Freedom for anarchist and subversive prisoners on hunger strike since March 22
In this episode System Fail looks at recent developments in the social war in Greece, fueled in part by the COVID lockdown, the Greek #MeToo movement and the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas. We also sit down with co-editor of We Are an Image of the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008 and member of the VOID Network, Tasos Sagris.
CW: Discussion of sexual assault (including against minors), torture; scenes of police brutality, murder. English/Greek with some hardcoded English subs.
Continue reading System Fail 8 – The Ghosts of Democracy
An interview with Joshua Clover on the Paris Commune for the Planetary Commune project.
Continue reading The Paris Commune: Joshua Clover [Video]
The first three parts (1,2,3) of our series “Housing Struggle in the Netherlands” dealt with the struggle for housing in Amsterdam. But at the end of 1980, a conflict over a parking garage in Nijmegen heated up. There, 14 houses were squatted that the city wanted to demolish for a parking garage. Usable housing in a city with a severe housing shortage. Once again, the army was deployed. For this article Riot Turtle also translated subtitles for the Dutch documentary film ‘Pierson Unknown’ (47 minutes, Eng subs)). You can find the film below this article.
Continue reading Housing struggle in the Netherlands: Tanks in Pierson Street
In this episode System Fail takes a look at the devastating effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the people of Brazil. We also speak with Brazil-based anarchist Acácio Augusto, of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). CW: Death, Police Brutality, Homophobia – Hardcoded subtitles
Continue reading System Fail #7: Brazil’s Little Flu
Thursday, March 11, 2021. Dimitris Koufontinas is still alive. Tension continues to rise in Greece.
Continue reading Greece: The revolt and the repression spread to Thessaloniki [Video]
Greece. The colonels are back, but this time they are wearing suits and are not part of the military, but members of the governing Nea Demokratia (New Democarcy, ND) party. The repressive laws and the way Greek cops crackdown on disidents reminds of the military regime in the 1960’s and 70’s. A few videos from the crackdown on protests in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas in Athens on March 5 and 6, 2021.
Continue reading The ugly face of the Greek ND regime and its police state [Videos]
Heraklion, Crete: While people in “democracies” around the world have rights, like the right to protest or the right to freedom of assembly, the right to freedom of association, or the right to freedom of speech, in Greece, where the proud self-proclaimed democrats boast that it is the place where democracy was born, no such rights exist anymore, the greek right-wing government has quickly but steadily, in just one year and half, delved into neo-fascism .
Continue reading Greece: Riot police attacks, but faced with determined protesters, is forced to retreat (Crete)
This is happening now at Syntagma Square in Athens, in front of the greek parliament. (1st of March 2021, 18:15, local time). Huge demo in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas.
Continue reading The greek government is about to murder Koufontinas – Thousands march in protest in Athens, Greece [Video]
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