North London residents to protest against the construction of Edmonton waste incinerator
January 15th: On Sunday 16th January at 12 noon, North London residents and members from over fifty campaign groups will gather at Edmonton Green for a family friendly and socially distanced march in protest against the signing of the construction contract between the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) and Spanish company ACCIONA scheduled for 18th January.
Sheffield and Blackpool: UK’s longest ever gig-economy pay strike resumes after secret pay talks exposed
January 10th: The UK’s longest ever gig-economy pay strike resumes today as Sheffield and Blackpool couriers from the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) relaunch industrial action and will picket McDonalds branches every day this week.
Quick Roundup: Bristol Cases
December 18th: This week has seen a number of cases from the rebellious city come before the dock related to both clashes with police and the 2020 toppling of Edward Colston’s statue.
North London is fighting back against the Edmonton incinerator
December 8th: For 50 years the Edmonton incinerator in north London has been burning rubbish that could be recycled and creating toxic air pollution in one of the poorest parts of the UK.
Interview with the Coordination of Metal Workers (CTM) of Cádiz
January 5th: At the end of last year metalworkers in the southern Spanish port city went on an immense nine-day pay strike as inflation bit into the value of wages, before being brutally let down by union leaderships.
Poland, Belarus, Lithuania: A border crisis hell
January 4th: In November, Ruhi Loren Akhtar (Founder & CEO of Refugee Biriyani & Bananas) travelled to the Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus border to assess the situation, raise awareness, and provide humanitarian aid, where possible, to the people who were affected and displaced there.
France: Revolts in the migrant detention centres
December 17th: Rebellions are increasing in the detention centres of Vincennes and Mesnil-Amelot, with deportation refusal, protests against appalling living conditions and police racism adding to unrest over the health crisis and rising Covid case numbers among detainees.
“Anarchism” is just a name- a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
January 13th: Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Pluto Press The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C.
70 years ago: Imperial greed on Africa’s west coast
January 7th: Amid the horrors of the Mau Mau uprising Britain’s malignant role in 1950s West and Southern Africa is less well covered, but it wasn’t entirely ignored by progressives, as today’s featured article from Freedom‘s January 5th issue of 1952 shows.
A roundup of radical activism in Britain in 2021
January 2nd: 2021 has been a big year for protest, occupations and direct action.
Cypriots under Turkey’s oppression for decades
January 14th: The Turkish Cypriots have been protesting against Ankara over the past decade and the tensions between Ankara and Nicosia have increased due to the influx of settlers and Turkey’s policies towards northern Cyprus.
British Politics and Anarchism in 2022
January 11th: I’ve been thinking recently about the various themes that I’ve written about since starting this regular column for Freedom in 2016.
Moving statues and perverse verdicts
January 6th: The Colston Statue puller-downers have been acquitted.
