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Russia – Oligarch’s Revolt or Khovanshchina 2023
11 / 7 / 2023
Two weeks have now passed since the so-called Prigozhin ‘rebellion’.
New details about the events emerge with each passing day as the background and
motives become more defined. Let’s figure out why the oligarch started an armed
insurrection and how did Putin manage to overcome probably one of the most
difficult days in his 23-plus years of unchallenged power, ...
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Road to Palestine, day 6 - Flowers of the desert
Squeezed in the grip of Hamas and Israel, there is a generation in Gaza that resists, despite everything and everyone.
25 / 5 / 2022
“Fuck Israel, fuck Hamas. I just wanna be free”. Few words would be enough to describe the state of mind of young Palestinians trapped since birth inside the hell of Gaza. Pronouncing them is Rajab, 26, who grew up in one of the strip's poorest neighbourhoods and stayed with us for most of our stay. Among the many hotels on the beach, he points us to one, quite different ...
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Road to Palestine, day 5 - Hebron's nets
Between check-points, settlers and resistance among the houses of a (ghost?) city
24 / 5 / 2022
The nets are over our heads. "They put them up because the settlers were throwing stones, chairs or garbage at us," says Muhanned of the "Youth Against Settlements" Association. Some of those objects we see even now over the nets. "Once I saw them pouring acid on a Palestinian, they peed on me from up there." Hebron, the main street of the old market. Below, Palestinian ...
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Road to Palestine, day 4 - A resistant village in the occupied land
With Youth Of Sumud activists. The threat of settlers and army raids.
23 / 5 / 2022
A small village in the barren hills south of Hebron, At-twani. After days spent between villages and towns very close to each other and made up of houses piled one on top of the other, we finally find ourselves in an open space, our gaze runs until we catch a glimpse of the Negev desert.We are in zone C, the one under total Israeli political and administrative control. Behind ...
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Road to Palestine, day 3 - Refugees since 74 years
Dheishe camp, at the gates of Bethlehem, between graffiti of the martyrs and red flags. Life on the other side of the Apartheid wall.
22 / 5 / 2022
"We are the fourth generation born and raised in the camp," Hamdih tells us. He is a craftsman and builder, but has lived in Italy for years and now he is our translator and guide. Dheisheh camp, at the gates of Bethlehem, Ibdaa center. We are on the other side of the wall, the eight-meter-high concrete wall we walked through yesterday. "Our grandparents came here from the ...
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Road to Palestine, day 2 - In Sheikh Jarrah it seems like home
From Europe to Palestine, fascists act in the usual way: wishing you rape protected by the police. The story of another afternoon of resistance in East Jerusalem.
21 / 5 / 2022
The date is the usual every Friday for the last ten years. Sheikh Jarrah. The East Jerusalem neighborhood from which Israeli ultra-right-wing settlers want to kick 28 Palestinian families out of their homes. Among them is the one in which Yacoub Abu Arafeh, a teacher and theater actor born 60 years ago, has been resisting the occupiers' attempts at legalized expropriation and ...
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Road to Palestine, day 1 - Jerusalem. When Apartheid also erases history
The map drawn on the wall of the hostel shows the old city divided into different colours, with the sacred places highlighted.
20 / 5 / 2022
Around the walls, the names of the gates are those that you may find in ancient history books that tell of when Roman legionaries conquered Jerusalem and destroyed King Solomon's temple in 70 AD.Today only the western wall remains, the Wailing Wall, one of the holiest places in Judaism. A footbridge leads to the Esplanade of the Mosques, where the Dome of the Rock and the Al ...
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Danni remains now in our hearts. An account from the Dannenröder Forest
11 / 12 / 2020
Since October many activists have occupied Dannenröder
Forst, a broad-leaved forest located in Assia, in the middle of Germany. The
existence of this forest is at risk due to the project of expansion of A49, the
highway that already links the industrial plant of Kassel with Neuental and
that, according to the project, is planned to continue until Homberg (Ohm), in
the center ...
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Banning the Rote Hilfe: the plan of German Interior Minister
8 / 1 / 2019
The Rote Hilfe is the most enduring and effective
anti-repression movement in Europe, and anyone who has ever been to a rally in
Germany and interacted with their legal team can testify to that. Born in the
1920s in opposition to Nazism, it has been the emblem of Solidarität for a
century, a principle extremely dear to militant - and not - German activism.
For about two ...
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Because we're friends: Antirepression work in Germany and the Rote Hilfe
18 / 8 / 2018
Demi, an activist of Rote
Hilfe in Heidelberg, describes the German model of solidarity through its
most long-running and active symbol. With the legal team, the managing of the
news and the press release, RH remains the most important reference point for
the struggle against political repression in Germany and coordinates hundreds
of activists all over the country.If you've ...
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