The US has sent detainees to El Salvador, ignoring a court order and exposing the detainees to human rights violations. Last year our FTP homies at The Fire These Times podcast interviewed Michael Paarlberg, associate professor of political science, on what El Salvador's system looks like, where president Nayib Bukele comes from, and how the state of El Salvador is implicated in gang violence. Audio and transcript:
El Salvador’s Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg – The Fire These Times
Highly recommend setting aside ninety minutes and watching @Ayman Makarem's new video essay, an entertaining and deeply researched polemic on the hypocrisies of Arab nationalist ideology from a leftist internationalist and anti-authoritarian perspective. Subscribe to From The Periphery's YouTube channel (and Patreon) for updates as this fledgling international media collective keeps growing and making cool shit! #FTP #QueSeVayanTodos #KellonYa3neKellon #AllOfThemMeansAllOfThem
From the archives (2021): One of our favorite transcripts, of an enormously wide-ranging interview by Elia @Elia Ayoub (he/him) on The Fire These Times with Emmi Bevensee. Lessons for 2025, from 2015: "Syria is what got me into antifascism. I believed that our struggles are interconnected and that I needed to follow the leadership of the Arab Spring, because they were pioneering new technologies of revolt and rebuilding their societies. It was a very exciting time."
Destroy Fascism, Embrace Complexity | Antidote Zine
A comrade and featured artist of the From The Periphery media collective has adapted a recent episode of The Fire These Times podcast into a pretty little zine. With their blessing, we've made it available for your reading pleasure and provided PDFs for sharing and printing (if you are inclined to art projects - video instructions included). Also of course check out the full audio and transcript of the conversation that TFTT had with Naomi Klein, linked in the post!
Zine: Our Mirror Worlds | Antidote Zine
SOLIDARITY CALL for Appalachians once again experiencing catastrophic flooding, this time immediately followed by extreme cold and snow. 🧡(1/4): Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief Fund says: "As waters rise, so too do Appalachians. Our region has once again been hit by catastrophic and historic flooding. It's time for us again to come together and help our neighbors." Here is their list of vetted grassroots aid organizations in the region in need of funds and in-kind donations.
NEW BOOK: The Syrian Revolution, a Reader You can get print and electronic editions from @Seditionist Distribution in the UK.
The Syrian Revolution, A Reader - Seditionist
<p class="western">These are texts by <strong>Syrian revolutionaries</strong>, activists, intellectuals, anarchists, as well as interviews with suc...
 Published in memory of Omar Aziz, who lost his life in Sednaya Prison twelve years ago, and as part of global gatherings to remember him on 16 February 2025. All profits from the sale of this item will go to the Sednaya Prison Association, which provides aid to the families of those detained and disappeared in Syria’s most notorious prison. #Syria @npub1z7g9...yfy0 image
Our From The Periphery homies at The Fire These Times podcast re-released this 2022 episode today: a wide-ranging interview with William C. Anderson on his 2021 book /The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition/.
Podcast: Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson &#8211; The Fire These Times
 Check out the audio, read the transcript, and consider joining FTP's Patreon so we can keep this kind of crucial and accessible political analysis coming! #BlackHistoryMonth
Good news! Viktor Filinkov, one of the defendants in the notorious "Network" Case against antifascists in #Russia has been released from prison after a total of seven years in custody. He's now back home in Kazakhstan. Here is the story from our friends at the Russian Reader, in the form of two translations: a Mediazona write-up on Filinkov's release, and a social media post by his public defender and wife, Jenya Kulakova:
The Russian Reader
Network Case Defendant Viktor Filinkov Released
Antifascist Viktor Filinkov released after seven years in prison on trumped-up charges as part of the notorious Network Case.
 Lots more info linked there too. #Antifascism
"The 48 Uyghurs are said to be part of a larger group of approximately 350 persons who were arrested in Thailand in 2014, after irregularly crossing the Thai border to seek protection. It is alleged that they have been held in de facto incommunicado detention for over a decade." https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/01/thailand-must-immediately-halt-deportation-48-uyghurs-china-un-experts These 48 people have been on hunger strike since January 10 fighting deportation to China and the real risk of (more) torture. Sign this petition to the Thai government:
Change.org
Sign the Petition
The Petition to Thai Government: Don't Deport Uyghur to China
Emotional and informative interview (podcast and in-browser audio) with two extremely knowledgeable Syrians about the path ahead for their country:
London Review of Books
Podcast: Loubna Mrie, Omar Dahi and Adam Shatz Β· After Assad
 Don't let the fall of one of the region's and world's most brutal dictatorships be a blip. Think of it like the solstice: it's getting colder but the darkness is being vanquished even as it seems at the height of its oppressive power. It cannot hold. None of us are free until all of us are free! #OneWorldOneStruggle #Syria