World
Indonesia: The struggle for Tamansari
April 27th: In the "human rights friendly" city of Bandung a conflict was raging over the future of Tamansari, a piece of land occupied for decades but slated for redevelopment.
Chile: The Self-Managed Street Workers Union is born
April 23rd: President Sebastián Piñera’s hide was well and truly saved when Covid-19 interrupted months of protests which had nearly kicked his government out of power — but lockdown doesn’t mean people have stopped organising.
Syndicalist unions and Covid-era resistance: A CIT roundup
April 22nd: The anarcho-syndicalist international, founded in 2018, looks at workplace struggle in its branches worldwide and calls for the building of new forms of solidarity amid the lockdowns.
Notes from the US: COVID-19 edition
April 18th: ‘Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action’ (Goethe) Readers of Freedom News will be familiar with (and probably sick of hearing) accounts of the Trump administration’s misconduct during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
The ‘scientific rigour’ which has left our hospitals unprepared
March 31st: The following statement, released recently by Italian healthcare union USI on the running down of their national health system, could be a word for word critique of the British government’s own systematic destruction of the NHS.
Greek authorities use COVID-19 lockdown to crack down on self-managed Vio.Me factory
March 30th: While the Greek people are placed under quarantine due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Greek authorities continue their agenda against the social movements in the country.
South Africa: Evictions mark first day of national lockdown
March 28th: Even as police let loose with rubber bullets and beatings against shoppers yesterday in an effort to enforce the new national Covid-19 lockdown, in Durban they were turfing people into the street.
Notes from the US
March 27th: Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks.
Quarantine vs. overcrowding – what’s going on in Italian prisons
March 25th: Riots exploded in about 30 Italian prisons 2 weeks ago in the biggest uprising since the 70s.
Sex workers are under attack– feminists everywhere need to support us
March 19th: It was the day after International Women’s Day and I was tired, obviously, but also feeling good about pulling off another strike for the 3rd year in a row in London.
