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European police forces conduct raids across four countries in relation to G20 in Hamburg

May 30th: Coordinated police raids in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and France took place early on Tuesday as part of the German police investigation into riots …

Germany: brutal treatment of arrested antifascists

May 30th: According to a statement issued yesterday by the Rote Hilfe OG Leipzig, a worrying incident occurred last month in Germany.

Spain: A Insumisa social centre evicted

May 26th: Last Wednesday, the municipal police have evicted the A Insumisa social centre in Galician city A Coruña.

The unique solidarity of Velika Kladuša in Bosnia

May 25th: Locals together with international volunteers are warmly welcoming people at the Bosnian-Croatian border and are trying their best to support them …

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…