Freedom

Against ‘human nature’

April 4th: To claim selfishness is our affliction ignores the conditions of a system that prioritises greed above all other virtues ~ Sourdough ~ A common ref…

Face masks at protests: If not now, when?

April 2nd: A proposed ban on wearing a face covering at a protest is an enormous challenge to protest organisers and human rights groups ~ Kevin Blowe ~ Labou…

Just Stop Oil: The dead end of symbolic disruption

March 31st: The end of JSO’s actions marks more than a tactical shift, exposing the limits of symbolic resistance in a system built on ecocide ~ Blade Runner…

Welfare cuts: Labour’s political suicide

March 24th: Or could this all be an undercover anarchist joke to show the system’s bankruptcy ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Cheerily kicking kittens, earnestly p…

Anarchism and the New Military Wave (pt.1)

March 23rd: A few thoughts on where we are as we teeter on the cusp of a decade-defining shift into armed nationalism ~ Rob Ray ~ In the deluge of capital-N Ne…

Anarchist News Review: Spycops victims, IWD and protest sentencing results

March 13th: It’s was inevitable that Starmerite Labour would come for welfare in a vain attempt to look tough on the poor ~ We discuss the implications o…

Toby Shone: “The state machine is terrified of the links we make with each other”

March 12th: The freed anarchist prisoner spoke about solidarity and abolition at the Brighton Cowley Club ~ Elizabeth Vasileva ~ A talk by anarchist ex-prisone…

Irrational terror & the bullshit factory

March 6th: Liberals continue to prove the willing, if snarky, foot-soldiers of fascism ~  Sourdough ~ Political reality is changing at ever-quickening sp…

The Matrix has you

February 28th: Algorithms are shaping our thoughts and behaviours in dangerous ways ~ Matthew Gaffen ~ “The Matrix” already exists—we’re not all aslee…

Starm Wars

February 27th: The Prime Minister’s announcement of increased defence spending signals a turn towards militarism ~ Stanton Cree ~ Keir Starmer has announced…

German elections: On the way to a new Reich?

February 26th: The country is slowly drifting into the hands of the extreme right, repeating the steps that brought Adolf Hitler to power ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ There…

Putin’s friend blackmails Ukraine

February 24th: After three years of full-scale war, we now face an authoritarian world order ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine …

Anarchist News Review: Labour mirrors Trump and the US gets blunt over geopolitics

February 20th: Uri Gordon hosts a Freedom discussion on why it is Labour has accelerated its rightwards journey on topics as wideranging as defence, migration and…

Do it like Trump—Labour targets migrants

February 17th: Labour’s rebranding aligns with a global surge in far-right, anti-migrant rhetoric ~ Blade Runner ~ Labour’s government is celebrating record d…

“McLibel demonstrated the huge potential of coordinated grassroots action”

February 16th: As the UK spycops inquiry continues, a prominent target of police overreach reflects on their internationalism—and ours ~ Dave Morris ~ Victo…