World
Russia: protest against prison torture
May 23rd: St Petersburg: about 400 people took part in the rally against torture of prisoners in Russia: an impressive turn out for a country where brutal po…
Notes from the US: Jailing migrant children
May 16th: Louis Further’s latest roundup of goings-on in the USA.
Israel: Antifa opposes nationalist ‘Jerusalem Flag Parade’
May 14th: Jerusalem Antifa took action against the Jerusalem Flag Parade nationalist march held annually on 13th of May.
Founding of a New International
May 12th: The first reports are coming in from the Foundational Congress for a New International — an effort to draw together some of the biggest syndicali…
ABRA Anarchist Social Centre opens in Havana
May 8th: The ABRA social centre and library, which opened on May 5th, marks a major milestone for the anarchists in Cuba, who have struggled to reassert the…
Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour convicted of ‘Facebook incitement’
May 4th: A Palestinian poet was convicted of “inciting violence” and “supporting a terrorist organisation” on Thursday for a poem sh…
No pasarán: neo nazi march successfully blocked by citizens of Warsaw, Poland
May 2nd: Mayday march organised by Polish fascists under the slogan “National Workers Day” was successfully stopped by the coalition of antifascist grou…
Poland: Anger as hipster clothes firm patents “Women’s Strike”
April 26th: Last week saw a series of deletions of some groups and fan pages using the name “Dziewuchy Dziewuchom” – an umbrella term for a l…
Netherlands: harsh sentences for squatters
April 25th: The six squatters who occupied a water tower in Utrecht last October to mark 7 years since squatting were made illegal in Netherlands were sentence…
Friends of Haukur Hilmarsson call for help bringing him home
April 24th: Iceland has been shocked to hear of the death of Hilmarsson, a well-known anarchist activist caught in a Turkish airstrike just outside the Kurdis…
Notes from the USA
April 23rd: 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…
Germany: European neo-nazis gather to celebrate Hitler’s birthday
April 21st: European neo- nazis are gathering in Ostritz: a sleepy German town of 2,300 people near Polish and Czech borders, to celebrate 129th anniversary …
Berlin: Protest against gentrification and rent hikes draws 25,000
April 20th: 25,000 people demonstrated in Berlin last Saturday against rising rent prices and the lack of housing.
Mexico: teachers strike against education reform
April 13th: The CNTE teachers’ union called a 48-hour strike in southeastern Mexico, paralyzing traffic for hours in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Canada: police crackdown on Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair organisers
April 9th: On early hours of last Friday, Hamilton police raided a house associated with some of the people involved in organizing The Hamilton Anarchist Book…
