Five Legal Observers are suing the Metropolitan Police for their arrests, detention, and assault whilst monitoring police violence at protests..
Five Legal Observers suing Met Police for unlawful arrests
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GBC and ACAB launch guide to Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act
This guide was written through the collaboration of Green and Black Cross (GBC) and the Activist Court Aid Brigade (ACAB). There has been much public discussion about the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act (herein: the PCSC Act). We have produced this guide in the spirit of mutual aid to distribute practical and simple English
Bristol Kill the Bill statistical update
As of 11th November 2022 this is what has happened from the Bristol Demo of 21st March 2021. Avon and Somerset Police alleged over 500 people were engaged in disorder and have identified at least 191 suspects. 83 people have been arrested and 3 interviewed under caution, 47 people have been charged including 42 with
Increased numbers march for the United Friends and Family Campaign
This Saturday 28th, thousands of people met in Trafalgar Square at noon to march to Downing St for the United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) against deaths in police, prison, and psychiatric custody. At Downing St, friends and family gave moving speeches about their loved ones who had died at the hand of the state.
Accountability demanded after police killing of Chris Kaba
Today there was a solemn, angry march for justice for Chris Kaba. Thousands of people marched from a fenced off Parliament Square following Kaba’s close friends and family, eventually gathering outside Scotland Yard. Sky News perversely reported these crowds as being there for the Queen. His family has called for the officer who shot Chris
Unrest grows after the shooting of Chris Kaba by the police
The killing of Chris Kaba by the police on the 5th September in Streatham Hill has incited demonstrations outside Brixton police station. The family are calling for a murder investigation. They issued a statement via Inquest: “The family of Chris Kaba seek a homicide investigation into his death from the outset. We have today told
Rod Webber v Boston Police Department
Freedom publish a US anti-fascist’s account of their escapades with fash, cops, and the courts: America’s premiere propagandist-in-chief, Joe Biden on Thursday gave a flourishing speech about the importance of giving more money to the Bacon Mafia. When I saw the clip circulating online, I wasn’t surprised – but in my role as documentarian I
Riot and SCPO cases head to Bristol Crown Court
Two Bristolians accused of riot have been up in court this week in the latest of a series of cases related to Kill the Bill protests in 2020, while in a separate case anarchist prisoner Toby Shone is facing years of heavy surveillance via a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO). Indigo and Kadeem The controversial
BREAKING: Police raid Northants community fridge
At 11am this morning, police swooped on a community mutual aid project in Northampton in a raid allegedly linked to the Just Stop Oil campaign. The Racecourse Community Fridge is a recently established mutual aid project focusing on repurposing commercial and domestic foods which might otherwise go to waste, providing social support to anyone who
People, Prisons & Profit: Contemporary Abolition in the UK
When discussing matters of inequality and oppression, particularly through a radical framework, there always awaits a countering opinion that deep-rooted systemic issues such as the prison industrial complex are somehow uniquely American; the implication being that Britain, a nation regarded for its pragmatism, has nowhere near such issues and thus does not need to concern
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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
