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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Margaret continues her conversation with Charles McBryde about the underground organization of anarcho-communists fighting against their own authoritarian government.

Sources:

https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchist-ruslan-siddiqui-sentenced-29-years-maximum-security-penal-colony
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20120888
https://avtonom.org/en/news/anarchist-alexey-rozhkov-sentenced-16-years-setting-fire-military-enlistment-office
https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/12/05/7379273/
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/12/05/7379409/
https://theins.ru/en/society/280988
https://avtonom.org/en/news/you-could-call-me-partisan-ruslan-siddiqi-recounts-his-anti-war-actions
https://theins.ru/en/politics/252885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmJZVKLQylA
https://abc-belarus.org/en/prisoners/
https://ukrainetoday.org/ex-russian-officer-defects-to-ukraine-to-fight-enemies-of-my-homeland/
https://greydynamics.com/siberian-battalion-russian-volunteers-fighting-for-ukraine/
https://greydynamics.com/inside-russias-underground-resistance-the-rise-of-boak/
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https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/27/russia-prison-sentences-for-terrorist-graffiti/

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