Latest Transmissions
Self-Organization for a Dignified Life
“How we work together is shaped by the intention of transforming existing relationships and ways of being in Mexico City: we are working toward autonomy.”
Rainbolt Condemns Federal Assaults on Liberty
Fifteen people have been charged with conspiracy in this flimsy case so far, though at this standard of evidence the number of co-conspirators might be closer to 150,000.
Building Internationalism from Below
The manifesto was the first stone, and now there’s a process of direct meeting between people from different contexts so that we can refine together ethical and strategic positions.
A Summer Reading List for Minneapolis 2026
We have found success in action here in Minneapolis—but, as ever, greater knowledge, initiative, wisdom, and imagination will serve us in ongoing and future struggles.
Zine: Autonomous Kitchen Councils
Mastering food collaboration prefigures other kinds of collaborations across disparate body-mind spaces and times. We want to incite processes of collectivity. We are defending abundance everywhere.
“Sooner or later we’re all going to have charges.”
Federal legal repression of ICE watch in Minnesota: transcript of the Outlaw podcast’s interviews with four arrestees
Searching for Solidarity
These were not just revolutionaries in the abstract. They were embedded within a revolutionary practice. They had a fascinating certainty about liberation: freedom was just on the horizon.
Poetry Feature: Angels of Collapse
Two poems on collapse and revolution from Minneapolis: “Angel of Collapse” followed by “Honoring our Martyrs”
What Must Be Done?
The unchecked authoritarian nightmare currently rampaging through our streets is the product of a system that views policing as sacred, officers as infallible, and protest as inherently suspicious and dangerous.
Dispatch from Iraq: In Defense of Civil Society
Amidst growing regional war, a call for international solidarity with Iraqi civil society, feminist and secular movements, trade unions, and grassroots organizers.
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Featured Archive: Political Prisoners
Wonderland
In Penza, the FSB does not even bother to hide what they are doing. Officers show up at the remand prison there, and take their man to another room, where they have a generator and electrical wires set up.
International Antifascist Solidarity: The Budapest-Komplex
In June 2024, a German antifascist was extradited from Germany to Hungary in a hasty operation intended to deny them all legal recourse. An interview with the solidarity group advocating for their freedom and that of others facing similar repression across Europe.
“In our mouths, words become crimes.”
The laws have changed their names, but they are still laws of exception, and they still have the same consequences for dissidents: persecution, criminalization, repression, and imprisonment. Freedom of expression exists only for those who think the way they do.
“There Were Just Too Many”
The neo-Nazi ideology of the attackers is completely ignored, and the whole incident is trivialized as a bar fight instead of a cold, calculated racist attack by people who vocally promote genocide.
“Prison Turned Me into a Convinced Revolutionary”
I acquired one important thing inside: hatred of the modern state system and class society. I did feel something like that before, but it was purely logical. Now it’s a profound living emotion.
When Governments Turn Against Humanitarian Volunteers
2018 saw a major backlash against human rights defenders advocating legal access to asylum in the EU. Volunteers and NGOs have been threatened, attacked, and legally prosecuted. Are You Syrious? (AYS) is one of them.
The Partisan from Ryazan
Portrait of the outspoken Russian anarchist saboteur and prisoner Ruslan Sidiki
Featured Archive: Un/translated
Campisme : La trahison des gauches occidentales
Au nom d’un anti-impérialisme tronqué, de nombreux militants échouent à soutenir celles et ceux qui luttent, au Sud comme à l’Est, contre des régimes parmi les plus oppressifs de la planète.
La Lucha Política es Permanente
“Hemos aprendido durante los 35 años que tiene la organización que mantenernos juntos es lo que nos tiene seguros. El proceso organizativo se vuelve en un proceso que nos garantiza la vida, la seguridad, y la paz.”
Die Flucht – Die Herzlosen
Dieser Text wurde anlässlich einer Zugbesetzung geschrieben und den Passagieren per Lautsprechanlange vorgelesen. Ziel der Aktion war es, der Flucht eine Geschichte, und den Fliehenden eine Stimme zu verleihen.
Featured Transcripts from The Fire These Times
Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights
By reading these creative works of literature, the ways they tell stories, the ways they show humanity and inhumanity, the ways they show human beings—can they help us conceive of an alternative system of human rights?
Zine: This Can’t Become the New Normal
We need forms of solidarity we may not be able to understand or imagine right now, but will be indispensable to having a world worth holding together.
Zine: Our Mirror Worlds
Standing on the side of life, in the context of genocide and ecocide and the normalization of mass death on pretty much every front—I believe that’s radical, transformational.
Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian
Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez and Bashar al-Assad built.
On Chemical Attacks and Genocide Denial
If people would accept not knowing much and were willing to learn, we’d be in a much better place. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, so here we are fighting chemical weapons denialism, which is probably the worst place we could be.
Manifesto
The Antidote Writers Collective seeks to resist and counteract the poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves.
We believe that a strong collective immune system is built through knowledge and understanding and that the struggle against division and repression requires building a new culture of discussion that goes beyond flat definitions, brittle ideologies, stubborn dogmas, idle preconceptions, and petty rivalries.
We will share knowledge with each other, aiming to build empathy, and in turn enable the emergence of genuine solidarity—one which does not demand uniformity across contexts, one which does not “include” you, but in which you include yourself.
In this spirit, we will provide a platform for a diverse set of voices, especially for those otherwise silenced or ignored in “mainstream” discussions. We want to hear from people engaged in radical struggles all over the world. We seek neither agreement nor conflict, but rather to identify issues at their roots, and to consider different radical approaches to their resolution. And though we at the Antidote Writers Collective have voices—and we will use them—we will not presume to speak for anybody.
On the contrary, we invite you to offer us new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing. It’s not about establishing a space for comfy ideological self-indulgence, but for questions, for a true diversity of voices and viewpoints, and for turning all of this into action.
One World. One Struggle.