Analysis
Trump’s world politics: Bad or worse for Palestine and Ukraine?
November 18th: Trump’s second term could escalate support for Israel’s far-right agenda while cutting American backing for Ukraine, with uncertain outcomes driven by his personal and political gain ~ Blade Runner ~ The result of the United States elections might seem inevitable in hindsight, thanks to the ultra-centrist Democrats doing everything they can to hand the White
Notes from the US: Power unchecked
November 14th: What a resurgent MAGA presidency means for policy and resistance ~ Louis Further ~ It is a week since the elections, and our preliminary assessment of how and why Donald Trump – a twice impeached convicted felon, and an incompetent, largely economically ignorant white supremacist, misogynist and serial rapist – was legitimately elected to the
Freedom News Review – November 12
November 13th: Items discussed in this program: Valencia anger after flooding • First contact with Ocalan in almost 4 years • Trump victory and the ‘far right international’ • UK at Climate summit • AI job losses
“You can actually see this ‘far right international’ taking shape”
November 10th: Grzegorz Piotrowski discusses far right power and its international networking and funding ~ Uri Gordon ~ The far right agenda has never been so powerful since the end of the second World War.
Politics at all levels, by all means
November 7th: A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany ~ Jonathan Eibisch, Paradox-A ~ The promised turning point is clearly coming much louder than many would have expected.
Trump’s victory: “Manipulable, Aggrieved, Gullible, Ahistorical”
November 6th: On the day after the election half — but only half — of Americans woke up sombre, stunned, sickened, and rightly very scared ~ Louis Further ~ On Tuesday Rudy Giuliani, disgraced and debarred lawyer and felonious election denier, arrived to cast his vote in Florida in a car which he had been ordered by
Freedom News Review 5.11.2024
November 5th: Items discussed in this program: US elections and vote-shaming • Valencia flooding — climate change, neoliberal neglect and mutual aid • Palestine Action nonviolent tactics push Barclays to divest from Elbit • Kemi Badenoch elected Tory leader: culture wars and “reverse identity politics”
A black woman Tory leader? Sure, as long as she’s batshit right-wing
November 4th: Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right of the political spectrum ~ Daniel Adediran ~ Kemi Badenoch is the death’s head of the Tory Party.
Labour’s anti-trans health betrayal
October 30th: Trans people must form coalitions to face a government joining the side of cruelty ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ From the genocide in Gaza to refusing to apologise for the enslavement of millions of Africans, from the two-child cap to banning all trans healthcare for under 18s – Keir Starmer’s government is showing us that
Freedom News Review 29.10.2024
October 29th: Items discussed in this program: German antifascist arrests and deportations • Valencia square occupation for decent housing • Lisbon riots after police racist killing • Escalation in Chiapas • UK budget and Labour’s capitalist cult of growth • Tommy Robinson sentencing and the threat of fascist “victimhood”
