Trying to avoid doing any work the other day, I came across an article from the economics magazine Moneyweek called ‘The End of Britain’. It makes some bold claims that the British economy is going down the pan, because of unsustainable welfare spending on poor people and suggests that “sensible investors” can avoid being robbed
Month: April 2014
International news in brief
CAMBODIA: Protesting garment workers in Cambodia have clashed with police leaving scores injured. Workers employed at SL Garment processing – who make clothes for Nike, H&M, & Gap – marched on the Prime Minister’s house, demanding better pay and working conditions. They were met by heavily armed police who were intent on violence, using live
The defence of Privacy
Privacy is something intimate. To violate it even in the slightest terms is, without over-stating the matter, an encroachment by a government upon the rights of the individual, not to mention the community. At this stage, a distinction may prove to be important. A clutch of rights such as privacy, freedom of speech, etc., are
Bad reaction
Rich Cross looks at the expansion of Britain’s nuclear power programme
The UK prison “Book Ban”
Well, one of the big prison stories in recent months has been the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) “book ban”, that has so outraged the British middle classes and the country’s intelligentsia that it has brought them out on the streets to protest… to read poems outside Pentonville nick. We’ve had the likes of Mark
THE HORRORS OF THE KORYDALLOS PRISON COMPLEX
The Korydallos prison complex in Piraeus is Greece’s main “Type B” maximum-security prison. It is massive, with a designated capacity of 8,500 across its numerous wings, which hold both male and female prisoners – many of whom the Greek State consider to be the worst of the worst. It is also grossly overcrowded and currently
Books behind bars
Rob Ray talks to Lee Humphries, founder of prisoner support charity Haven Distribution, which specialises in educational literature
ANARCHISM AND CHRISTIANITY: AN INTERVIEW WITH KEITH HEBDEN
From humble beginnings the Christian faith, and its collective expression the Church, spread rapidly through the Roman World. After experiencing several periods of persecution it was co-opted by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century CE as the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Since then the Church has had a chequered history globally, often
What does moving online mean for Freedom?
Rich Cross – long-time Freedom reader and writer and author of the anarchist punk blog The Hippies Now Wear Black – reflects on the end of an era for Freedom…
Tom Gilliam: “Dissent and reprisal”
Tom Gilliam is a survivor of the Vietnam War. He was a Navy medic, a conscientious objector medic, assigned to a Marine Corps combat unit during the war. Throughout his time in Vietnam, Tom was surrounded by the noise, the disorientation, and the butchery of raw combat. He still has shrapnel in his body from
Recent Articles
Palestine Action and Youth Demand paint Ministry of Defence
They are demanding an end to the Ministry of Defence's contracts with Israel's largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems and an end to all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK
The circled A at 60: The true story
The circled A was invented in Paris in 1964 and reinvented in Milan in 1966
Anarchist on a talk show
Peter Seyferth reports on his experience combating "horseshoe theory" on the German talk show 13 Fragen (“13 questions”).
Palestinian detainees “have lost hands or feet”
Innocent Gazans face torture and death in Israeli detention camps.
Russian Anarchist “will finish tenth grade in pre-trial detention”
Lyubov Lizunova is accused of terrorism for a "Death to the Regime" graffiti and "approving" the arson of military recruitment offices
