Freedom News

Why covering your face at a protest is the right thing to do

March 4th: Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) co-ordinator Kevin Blowe explains why the organisation encourages activists to mask up.

Cressida Dick’s appointment as Met Commissioner is impunity at its worst

February 24th: In this comment article the Network for Police Monitoring argues that the appointment of Cressida Dick, the officer who oversaw the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, to the top job in the Metropolitan Police shows the Met’s total disinterest in either justice or the hurt caused by its actions The word “impunity” – exemption from

Suicide rates soar as mental health funding falls

February 8th: January saw Theresa May launch her vision of a “shared society” with a focus on mental health and reducing the stigma attached to it.

The Class War Newspaper is Back!

February 7th: For this edition of his monthly column Jon Bigger writes on what’s happening with the forthcoming relaunch of notorious anarchist paper Class War and looks over some of the encouraging signs of people getting spiky in recent weeks.

Greece: Anarchists call for solidarity as deaths mount at refugee camps

February 5th: In this statement originally posted to the website of anarcho-syndicalist organisation Rocinante on February 2nd, the Greek group is calling for solidarity with refugees who have been dying at camps on the border with Turkey.

Hamburg G20: Stop them crawling back to the city

January 30th: There is more than one way to resist the industrial capitalist system.

Tories’ Trident cover-up

January 25th: In the last 48 hours it’s emerged that Theresa May has continued the Conservative party tradition of cover-up and lying in relation to nuclear weapons.

Crisis within Crisis, Zimbabwe: As we manufacture our own oppression

January 23rd: In this article originally written for South African anarchist group Zabalaza Anarchist Communist  Front (ZACF), Leroy Maisiri talks about his experience returning to the crisis-beset State.

Protests as Irish Housing Minister betrays squat deal

January 11th: Protests were held across Ireland against Housing Minister Simon Coveney today after he backed out of pledges to provide accommodation for Dublin’s homeless population in exchange for the ending of a popular occupation of Apollo House.

A Radical 2017 – All We Need To Do Is Join In

January 7th: Jon Bigger writes on direct and effective alternatives to the opportunism and whining of the liberal left  Since the Brexit and Trump results one thing that’s been glaringly obvious about any mainstream response is that it amounts to nothing but liberal bedwetting.