In this episode, we sat down with Margaret Killjoy and talked about the growth of anarchist culture within sub cultures as well as writing and a bit about themselves. lots of good info in this one!
One year after a flag was thrown on stage, the UK still arms Israel’s genocide, trains IGF soldiers on British soil and wishes to silence an Irish musician for ‘terrorism’.
Good day, spectators,And when we last discussed Mo Chara‘s farcical terrorism charge and trial, the British state was busy doing two things at once: firstly, it was prosecuting an Irish rapper for holding a flag and secondly, it was arming the Israeli warplanes bombing Rafah.
Tomorrow, Aug 20th, Mo Chara will stand in Westminster Magistrates Court for his second hearing, yet nothing has changed but the scale of the slaughter, the brazenness of Israel’s genocidal rhetoric and the UK’s utter desperation to silence dissent in whichever form.
Let’s recap. The so-called ‘crime’ is that Mo Chara briefly held a Hezbollah flag thrown on stage at a 2024 gig. Hezbollah is a group the UK banned in 2019…and that was only at the behest of their good friend and ally Israel..
Months later, Kneecap loudly denounced Israel’s genocide at Coachella with a message that swept the world:
19 Jun 2025 — Supporters of all ages, and even one cat, attended Westminster Magistrates Court to rally behind rapper Mo Chara as he faced trial for alleged terror offences.
This sparked a vicious smear campaign by Zionists and pro-Israel voices. Immediately after, charges were filed and all this happened on the exact same day the UK refused, in Parliament, to halt arms sales to Israel. For me, this is definitive proof this was always about punishing Palestinian solidarity.
Now, tomorrow the trial will resume, and the prosecution will still have no evidence of Mo Chara endorsing violence or anything of that description. His only crime from what I can decipher is ‘not immediately discarding a flag’.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again, it’s patently clear all they want to do is convict him in a show trial to restrict Kneecap’s travel.
If he’s convicted on terrorism, this will prevent him from travelling to most countries, sabotaging their tours, and sending a message that criticising Israel will cost you your freedom.
Since May, Israel’s mask has fully slipped, and I mean fully. There is a plethora of obscene war crimes, lies, statements and actions from Israel to choose from in the past few months. Each more evil than the last.
But I want to draw particular attention to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who has called to ‘burn Gaza’ and praised the destruction as some kind of ‘biblical justice.’
More than 60,000 Palestinians are dead, including 15,000 children, many of whom have been starved under a UK-funded blockade. UK arms exports continue flowing, with BAE and Elbit supplying parts used in the Genocide.
Yet the only ‘terrorism’ Westminster sees is a flag at a gig. The cognitive dissonance that we are witnessing here is not funny or silly or anything like that, it’s downright grotesque and concerning to the highest degree because these are the people that are supposed to be leading the UK.
The unwanted crackdown: how Palestine Action exposed Britain’s police state.
Whilst Mo Chara faces trial, the UK has unleashed its terror laws on peaceful dissent with surgical precision.
Last week, at Parliament Square, 466 people were arrested for holding signs reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action‘. This was the largest mass arrest at a protest in the UK in decades..
Among those charged under terrorism laws were an 81-year-old former magistrate, an 83-year-old retired priest, and a 67-year-old retired headteacher. Multiple nurses and a blind chap in a wheelchair…
Their weapon? Cardboard signs.
I would just like to use this opportunity to point out that, on the very same day, anti-immigrant protesters were throwing Nazi salutes next to police officers who did absolutely nothing.
Israel is so fucking evil that it has a military unit dedicated to coming up with excuses for the IDF’s atrocities. +972 reports that the IDF has a special unit it calls the “Legitimization Cell”, because it is tasked with finding justifications to legitimize the assassination of journalists and other war crimes for the purpose of “public relations”.
Probably goes without saying, but if Israel was on the side of truth and morality it would not have a military unit dedicated to manipulating the public narrative about actions which normal people would see as extremely evil.
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Israel: We can’t allow Palestinian journalists to remain alive in Gaza because all the Palestinian journalists are Hamas.
Western journalists: Okay so let us in, that way there can be journalists documenting what’s happening in Gaza who aren’t Hamas.
Israel: [long pause] … No.
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I have never been less open to people with different opinions than I am with Gaza. I am simply correct, and if you disagree with me you are wrong and I hate you.
I have alienated various readers and online factions over the years with the things I have written, but that has usually been unintentional; normally I don’t like to alienate people who resonate with my work. Gaza was the first time I’ve been happy to lose anyone who disagreed with me. It was like, You’re leaving? Good. Get the fuck out. I’m going to keep saying what I’m saying and if you don’t like it then I don’t like you. If you don’t leave then I’ll kick you out myself.
I like to stay open to different perspectives, and I like to have people with different perspectives stay open to me. But Gaza is such an easy and obvious moral question that I stand nothing to gain from any contact with anybody who answers that question incorrectly. I’ve never been so fast and so confident in making enemies than I have over this issue.
I’m nearly as impatient with people who haven’t taken a forceful side on this. It’s a sign of developing maturity to be able to see both sides of an issue, but it’s a sign of further maturity to understand that just because you can see both sides doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take sides on important and relevant moral issues with a clear right and wrong side. Stop fence-sitting on a genocide and grow the fuck up.
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If one side is bothered by images of starving children and the other is not, it's not "starvation" that divides them. What divides them is normal human decency. pic.twitter.com/n7FXceoStk
If a guy tries to rob you or rape you or murder you make sure you ask him his religion before trying to stop him, because you don’t want to be accidentally antisemitic.
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Nothing creates support for Hamas more than Israel’s actions in Gaza. Nothing creates hatred of Israel more than Israel’s actions in Gaza. Nothing creates hatred of Jews more than Israel’s actions in Gaza. Everything Israel’s supporters complain most about is caused by Israel.
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The strongest argument that Israel is committing genocide is that all major human rights groups say it’s a genocide, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B’Tselem, along with the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars and human rights experts. The debate is over. This is a settled matter.
The hasbara machine hasn’t come up with a counter-argument for this. They hate it. Whenever I use it they always try to push the debate in some other direction where they have a counter-argument they’ve been trained to regurgitate, but when I stick to the universal consensus among human rights groups they always get mad and rage quit.
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It’s so undignified how western governments and news outlets keep talking about Israel’s officially stated reasons for its actions in Gaza like we don’t all know they want to get rid of the Palestinians who live there and have been trying to get rid of them for generations.
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I love when I criticize Israel for something and someone goes “Oh yeah well America does that too!” Like that’s a defense. It’s like yes, those are both evil states who do evil things constantly, and they work in conjunction with each other and are not meaningfully separate. Yes.
The SDF calls for dialogue and cooperation to secure peace and stability while affirming it’s ready to defend the rights and safety of local populations
The hugely successful conference of “Unity of Communities” held in the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, on Aug. 8, 2025 – North Press
In a dramatic turn on August 9, 2025, Damascus announced it would withdraw from planned talks in Paris with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), citing their recent “Unity of Position” conference in Hasakah as a violation of the crucial March 10 integration agreement.
HTS led Government sources denounced the gathering as an attempt to “internationalize” Syrian affairs and accused it of undermining centralised national unity .
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) https://npasyria.com/en/128136/– The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) issued on Saturday 9th August 25 a statement calling on the Syrian government, its allied factions, and Turkey-backed groups to immediately cease all violations of the ceasefire agreement signed in April 2024.The SDF detailed that the hostile factions have launched more than 22 attacks on northern and eastern Syrian territories, employing heavy weapons alongside ground offensives
What’s at the heart of the dispute? The March 10 deal—involving interim President Ahmad al-Shara a and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi—was crafted to fuse SDF forces into state institutions, secure minority rights, and establish a cease-fire
“When the originally ‘State Socialist Secular’ Assad regime began to finally win the Syrian civil war with Russian help they allowed the militants of dozens of Jihadi factions, (which had grown up on cash and arms from the Sunni Gulf dictatorships, Turkiye and the US), to take refuge in the Idlib area on the Turkish border.
Idlib is next to Afrin, Aziz and Al Bab which were occupied in the first two Turkish invasions and which were also settled with jihadi factions, becoming Turkish mercenaries used to attack, occupy and ethnically cleanse Kurdish areas.. And now partly integrated into the ‘New Arab Army’
Idlib was soon ruled by Al Qaeda, renamed HTS, protected by Turkish bases and supplied across the border. Meanwhile the US and Israel continued to strangle the Syrian State which was further impoverishing under strict sanctions. With Russia distracted by the Ukraine war and Israel again blitzing their Lebanese allies, the entrenched regime collapsed in December 2024 in the face of a HTS breakout offensive and a demoralized military.
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Anarchist Occupied Social Centre *CSOA -The Black Carob Tree
5th LIBERTARIAN CAMP [Against the Criminalization of Social and Self-Managed Spaces]
This year’s CSOA La Algarroba Negra camp is coming up. A space to share, get to know each other, deepen our understanding, and continue networking…
After the experience of the previous camps, we want to continue supporting this action, which has shown us, and we have shown ourselves, that it contributes greatly.
In these turbulent times, we can’t imagine a better way to come together and continue resisting the criminalization of social spaces and fighting from below.
Self-management in daily life, collective construction, shared learning, reflection among like-minded people, and taking action as a method, with the intention of continuing to create the world we want to live in.
How does the campaign work?
In these six days together, the La Algarroba Assembly will propose some activities, and whoever comes can also propose their own. From talks, workshops, video forums, actions… This is how we’ll fill out the calendar.
The common issues of care and maintenance (cleaning, meals, time management, social support, recycling, water…) that make all this possible will be shared and assumed by the participants… it is part of the self-management of our lives.
For any other questions, please email algarrobanegra@protonmail.com
Let’s organize the resistance in an experiential way!
*We will soon update information based on our registrations.
The Black Carob
The Black Carob is a squatted and collectivized space that emerged from the need for autonomous and independent spaces and as an active way of denouncing the current unsustainable situation of the welfare state, faced with problems of access to housing and social gathering spaces self-managed by and for the individuals and groups that comprise it, as well as employment issues and access to decent work.
This is an alternative to associations disconnected from institutions or any type of political, religious, or union organization.
Active participation in the Black Carob is open and horizontal, a space for the union and participation of groups and individuals with similar social and political ties, as well as a site for experimentation and the creation of networks and projects for local self-management among local people.
Our unifying motivations are experimentation and peer-to-peer practices as a means toward a transformation of more collective, cooperative, and supportive social relations, from a perspective critical of the economic system and the ecological crisis.
Tras la vivencia de los anteriores campamentos, queremos seguir apostando por esta acción que nos ha demostrado y nos hemos demostrado, que aporta y mucho.
En este tiempo tan convulso, no imaginamos mejor propuesta que juntarnos y seguir resistiendo ante la criminalización de los espacios sociales y la lucha desde abajo.
La autogestión en el día a día, la construcción colectiva, el aprendizaje compartido, la reflexión entre afines y el actuar como método, con la intención de seguir creando el mundo que queremos vivir.
Como funciona el campa?
En estos 6 días juntas, la asamblea de La Algarroba propondremos algunas actividades y quien venga, puede también proponer las suyas. Desde charlas, talleres, vídeo forum, acciones….. Así iremos completando el calendario.
Las cuestiones comunes, de cuidado y mantenimiento (limpieza, comidas, cuidados del tiempo, apoyos sociales, recicle, agua…) que hacen que todo esto sea posible de desarrollar, será repartida y autoasumidas por lxs participantes… forma parte de la autogestión de nuestras vidas.
La Algarroba, es un espacio okupado y colectivizado, que surge de la necesidad de espacios autónomos e independientes y como forma activa de denuncia de la situación insostenible que se encuentra actualmente el «estado» del bienestar ante las problemáticas de acceso a vivienda y espacios de encuentros sociales autogestionados por y para las personas y grupos integrantes, así como la problemática ocupacional y el acceso al trabajo digno, como una alternativa al asociacionismo desvinculado de instituciones o de cualquier tipo de organismo político, religioso o sindical.
La participación activa en la algarroba es abierta y horizontal, un espacio para la unión y participación de colectivos y personas con carácter social y políticamente afines así como también es un sitio para experimentación y la creación de redes y proyectos para la autogestión local de las personas del entorno.
Las motivaciones que nos unen son la experimentación y prácticas entre iguales, como medio hacia una transformación de relaciones sociales mas colectivas, cooperativas y solidarias, desde un perspectiva critica al sistema económico y la crisis ecológica.
While the Doha agreement offers hope for DR Congo devastated by conflict, it is impossible the ‘ceasefire’ will hold.
FILE PHOTO. Lynsey Addario.. shared with thanks
Peace-mining: this US-mediated deal focuses on resources, not stability
On July 19 in Doha, under the watchful eyes of US and Qatari diplomats, representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group signed a ‘Declaration of Principles’ on a peace agreement.
The document, vague in substance but rich in optics, was immediately hailed by US President Donald Trump’s camp as a diplomatic victory. Trump’s Africa adviser, Massad Boulos, said the “the most important article of the agreement is the affirmation of state control in rebel-held territories.” That of course is still to be worked out in the coming weeks.
For Trump, the moment was one of those testaments to his deal-making prowess, echoing the grandstanding that accompanied his earlier, more theatrical moves in the Middle East.
But behind the celebratory headlines lies a far murkier reality. DR Congo remains a country engulfed in complex, overlapping conflicts, with M23 being only one of over 120 armed groups operating in the eastern provinces. The idea that a ceasefire agreement – mediated thousands of miles away in a Qatari hotel – could magically resolve the decades-long insecurity in this mineral-rich region is at best naive, and at worst, deliberately misleading.
The involvement of the US – particularly under transactional Trump – raises troubling questions. While any effort to mediate a ceasefire in one of the world’s most neglected war zones merits scrutiny, the Trump administration’s sudden engagement in the DR Congo appears driven less by concern for human suffering or regional stability and more by economic opportunity.
Trump as president has never visited Africa, including his first term. What’s more, his attitude toward the continent has been widely criticized as dismissive: In 2018 he referred to several African nations as “s**thole countries” during a White House meeting, drawing broad condemnation.
Last month, during a luncheon with the presidents of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at the White House, Trump grew visibly impatient as the leaders spoke. When it was Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo’s turn, Trump interrupted with: “Maybe we’re gonna have to go a little bit quicker than this because we have a whole schedule,” and added, “if I could just ask your name and country, that would be great.”
Though delivered in the guise of a schedule constraint, the remark was widely characterized as humiliating. It reduced these heads of state to nameless, interchangeable participants – highlighting a deeply transactional approach and a lack of respect for African leaders and their agendas.
DR Congo is one of the most resource-rich countries on the planet. Its eastern region, the focal point of the latest ceasefire, holds vast reserves of cobalt, coltan, gold, and lithium – minerals essential to electric vehicles, smartphones, and advanced military systems.
As global demand for these resources soars, Washington has grown increasingly uneasy over China’s dominance in the DR Congo’s mining sector. Trump’s sudden push for the US involvement in Congolese ‘peacebuilding’ is better understood as a strategic bid to secure Western access to these critical minerals.
Just two weeks earlier, he hosted a separate signing ceremony at the White House for what was billed as a broader agreement between Rwanda – allegedly the main backer of M23 – and the DR Congo.
04 Ago 2025 Luis González Reyes & Miriam GarcíaTorres, origen El Salto.
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