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Interview with the Coordination of Metal Workers (CTM) of Cádiz

January 5th: At the end of last year metalworkers in the southern Spanish port city went on an immense nine-day pay strike as inflation bit into the value of wa…

Poland, Belarus, Lithuania: A border crisis hell

January 4th: In November, Ruhi Loren Akhtar (Founder & CEO of Refugee Biriyani & Bananas) travelled to the Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus border to asse…

France: Revolts in the migrant detention centres

December 17th: Rebellions are increasing in the detention centres of Vincennes and Mesnil-Amelot, with deportation refusal, protests against appalling living con…

Notes from the US: a Winter solstice tale

December 16th: A Year’s End Yarn Once upon a time in a country far far away called the Untied States of Amnesia (with due acknowledgement to Gore Vidal) the…

Ireland: A farewell to the Workers Solidarity Movement

December 9th: After 37 years the WSM has announced that it intends to disband, shutting down Ireland’s best-known anarchist organisation.

Notes from the US

November 21st: Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the las…

Belarus: anarchist Mikola Dziadok sentenced to 5 years incarceration

November 17th: On 10th November, a judge at Minsk City Court announced  a sentence in the case of anarchist and blogger Mikalai Dziadok.

Notes from the US

October 19th: Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the las…

Tag X: Køpi-Platz is violently expropriated by Sanus Beteiligungs AG

October 18th: It was still early in the morning when the tanks entered the red zone.

Calais, France: Message from the refugee people after the death of our brother

October 11th: On 28th September, a young Sudanese man Yasser died at the French-British border.

Greece: two members of Rouvikonas threatened with life imprisonment (call for support)

September 30th: Two members of anarchist collective Rouvikonas are facing a potential life imprisonment if convicted in a trial that was described as Kafkaesque.

Russia: two anarchists sentenced to prison for a banner drop

September 22nd: On 10th September, the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk, Russia, announced the verdict in the case of two anarchists, Anastasia Safonova and D…

France: Lyon squat evicted in 7am raid

September 17th: After months of threats from oil supergiant TotalEnergies, the abandoned school on Jean Bouin street was cleared out by a huge police operation yes…

Notes from the US: Disinformed and dying

September 13th: This month’s missive again concentrates on the worsening situation in the country as a result of resistance and refusal to follow public heal…

East German anti-fascist conspiracy trial to start this week

September 6th: In Saxony, East Germany, a state governed by the hard right faction of the conservatives (CDU) since the state rejoined the federal republic again …