International Solidarity and the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners
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This week, we’re sharing three segments. First up, you’ll hear Yara speaking about Solidarity International, a new initiative to support prisoner support and anti-repression work beyond borders initiated by various anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups networked together, including the International Anarchist Defence Fund and various anarchist black cross groups across the world. We’re releasing this in the run up to the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners (or WOSWOP), August 23-30th, in which people are invited to gather, connect and take action against borders and...
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Simplicity (with Mattie Lubchansky)
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This week, Ian talks with cartoonist about her new book, , out July 29 from Pantheon Graphic Library. The conversation touches on Mattie’s work as Associate Editor for The Nib, her history with comics, and her ambitions beyond the printed page, but mostly focuses on the role of art in organizing and living our politics amid all the compromises required of life in the Real World. Instagram: x/twitter: website: tour: bluesky: podcast website: podcast bluesky: . … . .. Featured Track: Take The ‘A’ Train by Duke Ellington from The Duke - The Essential Collection (1927-1962)...
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Mutual Aid in CA's Fire Country (with Dani Burlison)
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This week, we’re sharing this a chat with my friend, Dani Burlson on her recent book, ! We speak about fire ecology, housing pressures and mutual aid in the wake of natural (and human caused) disaster. Check the show notes for links to a few projects mentioned. You can find more of Dani’s writings at D, books listed , and more by Caw at Northern CA projects mentioned: Southern CA projects mentioned: . ... . .. Featured Track: Be Yourself by Air Power from Be Yourself 12"
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Labor Resistance on Vinyl (with Josh MacPhee + Kennedy Block)
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This week, we’re sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today. Until the end of the month, the book is available from with a 15% discount if you check out using the code: strike15 . Josh can be reached on instagram via or via email at They’re also both involved with (which produced audio of this collection of Stop Cop City communiques for their...
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DFW Support Committee, A Better World Bookfair + Save The UNCA Woods
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This week on the podcast, we’re featuring three segments. First up, A member of DFW Support Committee, then organizers of the A Better World Bookfair in Waynesboro, VA and finally, organizers working to save the UNCA woods Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) DFW Support Committee First up, you’ll hear a member of the DFW Support Committee supporting the defendants arrested on and around July 4th in relation to a solidarity noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, in which a local police officer was injured. We speak about...
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Learning Together From Uprisings (InterRebellium with sub.Media)
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Heatscore and Nuke of sub.Media about their new documentary series, InterRebellium. The first episode, entitled El Estallido Social about the social uprising that flared up in 2019 in lands controlled by the state of Chile featuring anarchist and Mapuche voices on the conditions in which the uprising developed, experiences of it and its aftermath. You can view the film for free at alongside materials for discussion. We also speak about the role of film and media production in radical organizing and critique and upcoming episodes of the series. ...
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Christian Nationalism, Apocalyptic Visions + Child Welfare (with Talia Lavin)
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Talia Lavin, author of . In this chat, we speak about her more recent book, . There’s a lot in the book, most of it pretty disturbing (especially, I’m sure, for anyone who is ex-vangelical) and there is discussion of hateful ideology and child abuse and corporal punishment, though not in lurid detail, so listener discretion is advised. We hope to cover related topics in the future. Links: Newsletter: Instagram: Bluesky: . ... . .. Featured Track: Voice Of God Is Government by Bad Religion from How Could Hell Be Any Worse
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Rapid Responses To Immigration Raids + Homeless Sweeps in So Cal
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This week on the show we feature an interview with two anarchists activists in southern California about the recent resistance to Federal-led immigration raids in Los Angeles and the wider region. Both guests speak about their experiences working in rapid response structures to immigration raids, to anti-homeless sweeps and other community needs over the years and how they’ve changed as conditions and technologies have changed. We talk about inviting and engaging new activists and some strategies that showed success. Some great writings from the streets can be found at Ediciones Ineditas: ....
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Anarchism and Disability, plus A-Radio Segments
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This week, we spoke with Richard Amm, a member of the , or DARK, which they describe as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics. You can learn more about the project at [ 00:01:42 - 00:41:08 ] DARK Links Writings by the collective: A recent article by Richard: Notes on Mike Oliver’s contributions to The Social Model on wikipedia: Then we’ll feature two segments from the , the English-language...
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A History of Anarchist Prisoner Support (with Matt Hart) + June 11, 2025
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This week on the Final Straw Radio, we’re sharing an interview with Matt Hart of the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross chapter of the ABC Federation. We talk about the book Matt just released via PM Press, an expanded edition of Boris Yelensky’s history of anarchist prisoner support , illustrated by . Matt talks about the work of the , ABC’s pre-history with the Narodnik movement in mid-19th century Russia, prisoner defense under the nihilist movement, some moments in resistance and mutual aid through the following hundred and fifty years or so, some colorful moments and comrades up into...
info_outlineWe’re re-sharing an audio gift from comrades we originally shared back in 2021. We spoke with a participant in the Taller Libertario Alfredo López / ABRA in Havana, Cuba, recorded in late 2018. In this chat, the guest talks about the ABRA which is the only openly anarchist organization in Cuba at the time, about the LGBTQ movement and abortion rights which are both facing repression due to pressure from Cuban Evangelical and Catholic churches on the Cuban government, political discourse and difference, government co-optation, neoliberalism, animal rights, repression of dissent and the erasure of anarchist history.
In May of 2019, the guest and his boyfriend Jimmy Roque Martinez were arrested on their way to the annual Conga Against Homophobia and Transphobia, essentially Cuba’s main Pride Parade and detained 24 hours in order to block their participation. As the guest talks about in the interview, the state-run National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) had bowed to pressure from right wing Christian groups and canceled the event so activists were planning to hold an autonomous Conga resulting in several more arrests. A report with updates on the subject can be found at the Rosa Negra / Black Rose Federation website. You can also find an audio statement from Mario from the TLAL space on the subject in Spanish via BRRN.
To learn more about ABRA, they have a website at CentroSocialABRA.Wordpress.Com as well as a fedbook page as AbraCuba and one for Taller Libertario Alfredo Lopez. ABRA is affiliated with the Federacion Anarquista de Centro America y el Caribe, or the Caribbean and Central American Anarchist Federation, which can be found in Spanish at f-anarquista-cc.blogspot.com.
Check our show notes for some useful articles and a link to Frank Fernandez’s book, “Cuban Anarchism”, which you can order online or read for free online at The Anarchist Library. Another book suggestion is “Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century” by Kirwin Shaffer.
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Songs from this episode both performed by Eztafilokoko from Habana, Cuba (more by them at eztafilokoko.bandcamp.com):
- En Mi Puto Barrio [00:00:00] as background
- Hey Maxim [00:33:16]