Freedom

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…

Not again with the Burqa Ban?

June 10th: As Reform UK splits over a stale debate, Muslim women’s voices remain conspicuously absent ~ James Horton ~ Many had thought very little abou…

Starmer’s Big Idea: A militarised, impoverished Britain

June 6th: The UK Strategic Defence Review will only deliver security for arms companies—not anyone using a food bank ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Sometimes yo…

Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone

June 1st: The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all.

Kneecap and the realities of “Two-Tier Policing”

May 28th: The use of British state power against political expression is dangerously imbalanced ~ James Horton ~ Last week, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known by hi…

Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail

May 26th: Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem

Abolishing the family: A survivor’s perspective

May 20th: The family is marketed as a safe space, a place of love and mutual care, but this is not supported by the data—How do we bring our experience…

Notes from the US: Fervent embrace of dogma

May 14th: We can now see clearly how Trump/MAGA/Musk’s implementation of Project 2025 can legitimately be called fascist ~ Louis Further ~ With the usu…

Beyond binaries: Gender, law and the reproduction of power

May 13th: As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the …