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Belgrade Six finally cleared of terrorism after eight-year court battle

February 19th: Serbian anarchists were celebrating yesterday as the Belgrade High Court finally cleared six people of trumped-up “international terrorism…

Argentina: Final decision on worker-occupied Bauen hotel due next month

February 17th: What promises to be the final showdown for Argentina’s most famous worker-occupied site will be happening later this month when Hotel Bauen&#…

Strike for Democracy in the US

February 15th: Since the day of the election of Donald Trump to office, demonstrations in the USA have continued in response to growing outrage at the right-wing …

Louis Further: Notes From the US

February 14th: Freedom’s long-running US correspondent does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks.

Romanian anarchists on anti-corruption protests: It’s elites vs elites

February 13th: Romania has been seeing some of the largest demonstrations in its recent history over a law being proposed by the ruling Social Democratic Party (P…

Turkey: State paramilitaries are destroying Syrian refugees’ tent homes in İzmir

February 11th: As of February 8th, refugees living in tents in the Torbalı and Bayındır districts of İzmir are being evacuated in accordance with district gov…

France: Hundreds rally against police violence as Senate offers officers near-total immunity

February 9th: As people poured onto the streets of cities including Paris, Nantes and Rennes last night to demand justice for Theo, a 22-year-old social worker …

Greece: Elleniko refugee camp comes out on hunger strike

February 6th: A majority of the adults being held at Elleniko II refugee camp in the former Athens National Airport are refusing to eat in protest against cond…

Greece: Anarchists call for solidarity as deaths mount at refugee camps

February 5th: In this statement originally posted to the website of anarcho-syndicalist organisation Rocinante on February 2nd, the Greek group is calling for …

France: How union leaders destroyed the movement against El Khomri

February 3rd: A militant reflects on the struggle against the Socialist Party’s El Khomri law attacking working rights, which brought 1.2 million workers…

Chile: Guards brutalise anarchist detainees at San Joaquin jail

February 2nd: Prisoners in Chile are reporting that three anarchist women detainees have been brutally beaten at San Joaquin Penitentiary.

Greece: Refugee support centre squatters held in court limbo after eviction

January 29th: A number of anarchists, including international militants Itziar and Iñak (pictured) have had their trial put off yet again in Greece following t…

Germany: FAU welcomes challenge to law attacking small unions

January 28th: Anarcho-syndicalist union FAU has welcomed legal action from the German Association of Journalists (DJV) and pilot’s union Cockpit as the c…

Crisis within Crisis, Zimbabwe: As we manufacture our own oppression

January 23rd: In this article originally written for South African anarchist group Zabalaza Anarchist Communist  Front (ZACF), Leroy Maisiri talks about his ex…

Slovenia: Squat crackdown hits UPI social centre

January 22nd: Activists at Creative Platform Inde (UPI), one of Slovenia’s most active squatter social centres, have refused to leave after being threatene…