Freedom

After London marches, Unite the Kingdom and its opponents play the numbers game

May 18th: Saturday’s demo showed that Tommy Robinson has lost the normies, leaving a rump of loyal hooligans ~ Rob Ray ~ Numbers are in for the big day…

Anarchist News Review: Labour Coup II – The Re-Chickening

May 15th: Oh my God Weasel Wes is down …

Reform is coming: Representation on parole

May 13th: Behind the electoral turbulence lies the decomposition of liberal democracy, as representation becomes less effective in securing stability ~ Blade…

Practical solidarity with antifascist defendants Zaid and Gino

May 12th: Update on Budapest Complex case and interview with François from the Budapest Solidarity Committee in Paris ~ Silke, Graswurzelrevolution ~ On 7 …

Anarchist News Review: Election results analysis

May 11th: Mike and Jon get together to pick apart Labour losses, Reform gains, Starmer’s future, and hung parliaments in Wales and Scotland ~  

Anarchist News Review: Local elections special (Boo! hiss!)

May 8th: Jon, Andy and Simon talk about local elections tonight, and you know we’re non-partisan because our main manifesto point would involve gettin…

Belarus releases several anarchist and antifascist prisoners

May 7th: At least 18 others still serving long sentences for protests in 2020 and resistance to Ukraine war ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ The Belarusian regime has rec…

Italy renews 41bis regime against Alfredo Cospito

May 1st: The punitive political choice confirms prison as an instrument of annihilation ~ Osservatorio Repressione ~ Italian Minister of Justice Carlo Nordi…

Anarchist News Review: The exploitation of Golders Green

May 1st: ~ After a quick run-through of the latest on Palestine Action, Andy and Simon talk through how the tragedy of Jewish people being murdered is being…

Israel intercepts flotilla heading to Gaza off the coast of Crete

April 30th: The Global Sumud Flotilla reported that Israeli boats stopped them at gunpoint and intercepted about twenty of 58 boats ~ Directa ~ Flotilla source…

Rome: Laurentino social centre evicted

April 29th: Repression of Italian autonomous spaces continues, after previous evictions in Milan and Turin ~ Cristina Sykes ~ The L38 Squat, a social space in …

Prosfygika under threat: “We need to escalate the struggle”

April 28th: Interview with a resident of the historic Athens squat about its history, autonomous structures, the current threat of eviction, and the campaign t…

Athens explosion: Marianna M sentenced to 19 years

April 27th: Eight years sentence for Dimitra Z; Nikos Romanos and two others acquitted ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Eighteen months after an explosion in Athens claimed …

The underwhelming Posie Parker roadshow

April 25th: Notes on an Ipswich Saturday, in which a widely disliked political activist tried, and largely failed, to play her usual game of “look look I…

Italy: 18 anarchists sentenced for Alfredo Cospito solidarity demo

April 23rd: Sentences ranged from 18 months to 5.5 years with substantial fines and damages ~ La Zarzamora ~ The trial in the first instance of one of the two …