Analysis
115 local councils haven’t prosecuted a single landlord in 5 years—here’s why
December 10th: Property owners commit crimes, knowing that local authorities are scraping to keep the lights on ~ Isaac Bell Holmström ~ Overcrowding, infestatio…
What chances for climate protesters at Court of Appeal?
December 5th: Van Gogh soup protest and M25 blockade among cases in January hearing ~ Andy Meinke ~ In July, when five Just Stop Oil activists were jailed for a …
Freedom News Review—3 December 2024
December 3rd: Items discussed in this program: Rojava emergency with renewal of war in Syria • Repression against Kurdish activists in the UK • Deportation m…
Negativity and positivity in anarchism: An inextricable but contradictory duality
December 2nd: My initial purpose was to reflect on the unavoidable, and often undervalued, negative dimension of anarchism—but I soon realised this forced …
Freedom News Review — 26 November
November 27th: Items discussed in this program: International Day of Action Against Patriarchal Violence • Victory for direct action as Elbit loses £2.1bn UK d…
Return the common to the goose
November 24th: Farmers’ protests over a velvety soft reduction of inheritance tax privileges may seem overblown, but there’s a kernel of something interesting…
Freedom News Review – November 19
November 19th: Items discussed in this program: UK farming protests • Trump’s domestic and world politics • Indigenous peoples’ Anti-COP
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 dr…
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…
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…
“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 po…
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 …
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 Fu…
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 • …
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…
