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Vilifying the Vylans or: How I learned to stop censoring and call for death to the BBC
July 4th: The clumsy attempt to silence artists opposing genocide only makes their message louder ~ Stanton Cree ~ Over the last week I found myself in the i…
Anarchist News Review: The proscribing of Palestine Action
July 3rd: We don’t have long before old-fashioned authoritarian State censorship is employed to stop us talking about one of the most shameful episodes…
Palestine Action proscription: Criminalising effectiveness
June 30th: The proposed ban, rooted in colonial counter-insurgency law, could end up demystifying direct action and increasing public resolve ~ Blade Runner ~…
Nuclear weapons on British soil
June 28th: Between Labour’s barefaced militarism and a domesticated peace movement, it falls to anarchists to step up resistance to weapons of mass dest…
Holding back the police state: Interview with Kate Wilson
June 27th: Fifteen years on, one of the women who blew the lid off the Spycops scandal talks to Freedom about her political insights — and what the Unde…
Assisted Dying Bill: The neoliberal politics of death
June 25th: The Assisted Dying Bill cleared the House of Commons in the same week the government confirmed its commitment to slashing financial support for dis…
Labour’s authoritarian urge
June 24th: Labour’s desire for authority comes from an instinct to prove they can manage the workers best ~ Jon Bigger ~ Two themes have been ever-present i…
The dangerous precedent of Palestine Action’s attempted proscription
June 23rd: This decision is part of a campaign by the British state to quell direct action movements ~ James Horton ~ Palestine Action, it was announced on Fr…
Palestine Action ban: Trolls on parade
June 23rd: The government’s attempt to brand non-violent direct activists as “terrorists” has already backfired ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ This was the week …
Identity Cards? Again? Really?
June 22nd: It’s back, it has another excuse, and it’s still an extraordinarily bad idea ~ Rob Ray ~ In a very specific, eye-rolling-and-muttering-…
The fascists eat themselves
June 20th: Even more predictable than the rise of fascism around the globe has been its sharp descent into infighting and bickering ~ Sourdough ~ The coalitio…
Anarchist News Review: Israel-Iran war, Kneecap and attacks on Amazon
June 19th: The slippage from containing WMDs to calls for regime change rings all too familiar — but wars’ main function is still to preserve regi…
Israel’s greatest threat isn’t Iran or Hamas, but its own hubris
June 16th: A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in de…
Scrapping the Vagrancy Act
June 13th: The criminalisation of homelessness and poverty is not truly ending—only being reshaped ~ Tony ~ On 10 June 2025 the Government confirmed it …
Notes from the US: Reaction and Resistance
June 13th: As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests a…
