Freedom

Notes from the US: Fascist cultism

October 14th: This month, we examine how this elevation of selfishness and lack of compassion and empathy have reached the stage that it has.

Stand in solidarity against Turkish war crimes in Syria

October 9th: Take the war back to those responsible profiteers, companies and governments! 

The grifterverse and Russell Brand

September 19th: Why did so many hard-right celebs rush to support a supposedly left-leaning conspiracy-monger while the left itself has not?

DSEI ends today, but arms companies win

September 15th: A look at some of the morbid guests of the arms fair on its last day.

European Court of Justice absolves Frontex of responsibility for human rights violations

September 8th: According to a recent European Court of Justice adjudication, Frontex is not responsible for border human rights violations.

It still isn’t wage rises fuelling inflation

August 15th: The media is doing its usual job of trying to convince us to "show restraint" on pay claims – it's a scam.

Exarcheia: A year of occupation and the struggle for public space

August 10th: While the permanent police presence in the heart of Exarcheia is worrying in some ways, it is less dangerous than the future heralded by the constr…

Dartford Bridge appeal rejection bodes ill for new Lord Chief Justice’s reign

August 1st: The Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld sentences of 3 years & 2 years, and 7 months on two protestors who scaled and sat on the Bridge over the Thame…

Bye by-elections, hello hope

July 22nd: Each offers only a mildly different serving of uninspiring neoliberal hellscape, with only your choice of authoritarian topping to set them apart.

Must Britain’s borders be a site of brutality?

July 18th: Ellis Fox rounds up and critiques the right's most common arguments against immigration

The roots of the French riots

July 10th: The gap that we usually see in heavily policed states between the “violence-done-to-people-of-colour-by-cops” and “what-those-cops-have-to-sa…

Neo-Nazi Highland Division outnumbered & driven out of Elgin

June 20th: The fascists were outnumbered at least 20 to 1, and they were driven out of Elgin in one of the most humiliating defeats anyone could expect.

Stripping away our right to dissent

June 4th: Netpol’s Kevin Blowe rounds up the set of incoming laws which threaten to outlaw all but the most useless forms of protest..

Graffiti on a wall reads 'FUCK FRONTEX'

Frontex: Public relations not people

May 21st: Since 2016, Frontex has become the fastest growing EU agency, with a budget of close to €1 billion, and 11,000 employees.

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Turkey elections: The myth of ‘free but not fair’

May 18th: To put it another way, it would be wrong-headed to oppose Erdoğan’s expected victory on the basis of certain electoral irregularities alone: the…