Anarchist Black Cross Belarus recently finished an infotour in Germany, France and Switzerland, partly organized by the Federation of German-speaking Anarchists (FdA-IFA). We were able to talk to a comrade after their presentation in Berlin on 6 October 2022. The first half is about the dire political situation in Belarus at the moment, two years after the uprising as well as in the context of the war in Ukraine. In the second half we summarized together lessons from the presentation for antiauthoritarian and anarchist movements in future uprisings.
All infos on the infotour here.
This audio was part of the Bad News #61 in October 2022.
Welcome to the 61st episode of Bad News, Angry Voices From Around The World, the monthly, English-language podcast from member projects of the International A-Radio Network. This month, we feature audios from comrades at:
48 minutes 38 seconds
Bad News #52: Angry Voices From Around The World
Welcome to the 52nd edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for Janaury, 2022. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.
Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.
Contents:
1) Črna Luknja, radio show collective on Radio Študent prepared an interview with a participant in the anarchist publishing network CrimethInc. about the recent fire that hit its central distribution centre. More about how to offer support and mutual aid can be found here.
2) Anarchist Radio Berlin is presenting part of an interview with comrades from the Syrena collective in Warsaw about the antifeminist attack on their squat in December 2021. You’ll find the complete version of the interview here.
3) The Final Straw Radio (from southern Appalachia in the so-called US) shares a brief portion of a soon-to-be-released interview with Robin Goldman, a member of Tekosina Anarsist, or Anarchist Struggle, a collective of combat medics participating in the Rojava Revolution. In this part, Robin speaks about the current situation in Rojava in terms of Turkish aggression, the medical work that TA is doing and some about the structure of the group. Stay tuned to TheFinalStrawRadio.Noblogs.Org soon for the full interview, alongside a transcription and zine for easy printing and sharing. You can learn more about TA by visiting their website.
4) Elephant in the Room from Dresden presents a short overview of what happened recently in Kazakhstan and how the things are right now for the protesters.
5) Free Social Radio 1431AM, Thessaloniki, Greece – about eviction of squat in Biology faculty and other news from Greece.
Length: 51:27
Bad News #50: Angry Voices From Around The World
Welcome to the 50th edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for November, 2021. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.
Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.
Contents:
1) The Final Straw Radio (from southern Appalachia in the so-called US) shares a portion of their interview with members of Asheville Survival Program, an Abolitionist food distribution project operating for about a year and a half there. This conversation covers some of the nuts and bolts of the group and to hear an hour-long interview covering topics like burnout, propaganda, navigating around non-profits as a non-non-profit and mutual aid versus charity, you can check out the whole episode at their website.
2) Radio Show Elephant in the Room from Dresden reporting on last updates on the situation with repression against the opponents of dictatorship in Belarus, focusing on current situation with anarchists and the ways to support the radical movement.
3) FrequenzA, podcast from Northern Germany made an interview about the situation at the polish/belarusian border.
4) Črna Luknja, radio show collective on Radio Študent from Ljubljana, Slovenia, prepared an interview about the situation of political refugees in the Western Balkan.
5) Anarchist Radio Berlin prepared a report presenting some of the recent cases of racist police violence to show their continuity and to also put out a call for a coming demonstration on the matter of the murder of Giorgos Zantiotis in a wuppertal police cell.
6) FrequenzA (again:) prepared an interview with workers from Domino’s Pizza in struggle.
Length: 47:40
Bad News #47: Angry Voices From Around The World
Welcome to the 47th edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for July, 2021. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.
Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.
Contents:
1) Radiozones Of Subversive Expression in Athens on issues on immigration, taking back the night against patriarchy and resistance behind bars in Korydallos prison
2) Part of an interview by The Final Straw Radio from the so-called US with a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era, mostly constituted of anarchists in or from Afghanistan and Iran, speaking about the withdraw of US and other Western troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of war and occupation
3) Finally, a portion of an interview by A-Radio Berlin with two activists about the Syrian revolution that began about 10 years ago. Apologies, but due to technical difficulties it is a little hard to understand at times
Length: 0:36:06
Bad News #45: Angry Voices From Around The World
Welcome to the 45th edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for May, 2021. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.
Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.
Contents:
1) Frequenz A – On the current uprising in Colombia
2) The Final Straw Radio – Interview with Palestinian Filmmaker and activist Yousef Natsha
3) A-Radio Vienna – Callout for international solidarity on June 11th
4) Crna Luknja – Interview from sister radio collective show Kilavo Seme
5) A-Radio Berlin – Remembering Josef Selnik, a romnja antifascist also known as Black Partisan, from Czech Republic
6) Frequenz A – On a repression case in Russia
Length: 1:20:00
BAD News #40: Angry Voices From Around The World
Welcome to the 40th edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for November, 2020. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.
Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.
Contents:
1) Interview with a anarchist from Belarus on development of protests, going on repressions against anarchist movement and the possibility to support a belarusian struggle against authoritarian regime.
2) Crna Luknja’s short newsflash from Slovenia. First, a sketch of the general situation regarding corona-crisis and the revolts against authoritarian measures. Later, updates on recent stages of municipality’s growing repression against Autonomous factory Rog, the squat in the center of Ljubljana existing since 2006.
3) So-called Greece; November in lockdown: Repression, migrants situation and anarchist resistance.
4) Anarchist assembly of Valparaíso: “One year after the beggining of the revolt, the revolt continues!”
5) FQZ A: Report on the demo in solidarity with the revolt in $hile which was organized at the 18.10.2020 the anniversary of the revolt in Leipzig (Germoney).
6) Report about the demo in solidarity with the accused anarchists at the 4th of November with a short compliance about the sentences at the 5th.
7) Dissident Island newsflash from so called England
8) Malaysia: interview with Queer Cempaka Collective from Kuala Lumpur about their work and the situation over there
Length: 1:22 h
As Anarchist Radio Berlin we had another chance to talk to Maria, an anarchist from Minsk, Belarus, about the situation in the country. We’re getting a comprehensive update on the evolution of the protest
tactics, both on the streets as well as digitally and on the state repression and other attempts of counter-insurgency.
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Listen here to our long interview from August on the background of the uprising.
As the Anarchist Radio Berlin, we gladly present this interview with an anarchist in Belarus on the current situaton in the country. Since weeks people are in the streets in the aftermath of the last election.
In the interview, recorded on the 31st of august 2020, we learn about underlying reasons and the built up to the current protest movement, as well as the role of alternative media and the current state repression.
Links mentioned in the interview:
As
A-Radio Berlin we had the opportunity of talking to a comrade from the
Federation for Anarchist Organizing (FAO) in Slovenia and Croatia.
Amongst the topics were the ongoing social uprising in Slovenia, the dynamics and challenges of such a movement in the Covid-19 context, state repression and neonazi attacks as well as a comparison to the 2012/2013 uprising. Last but not least our comrade offers an analysis of the tactics used in the struggle and how to possibly go forward.
BAD News #36: Angry Voices From Around The World
Welcome to the 36th edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for July, 2020. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.
Check out all the shows look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.
Contents:
- Radio-zones of Subversive Expression (Athens):
- media foundation by the Greek goverment during the quarntine,
- the police violence in Exarchia some days after a squat eviction,
- the violence and eviction of Victoria square
- contributing an antireport from Slovenian unrests, that in the middle of march, because of the virus started with drumming on balconies, went on the bicycles and ended up on foot, against the right-wing government with authoritarian, neoliberalistic and nationalistic intentions.
- Free Social Radio 1431AM (Thessaloniki):
- the arrest of two anarchist comrades in Thessaloniki,
- the latest developments on the shutdown and reconnection of espiv.net’s server,
- the violence and eviction of Victoria square
- Stop the eviction of the collective bar Syndikat
- an interview with somebody from solikomitee 1007 about the street festival “resist-2” about the festival, the resistance against the deportation in the past and the trial against two persons who where part of it.
- Dissident Island Radio (London):
- a round-up of UK-related ‘B(A)D News’
