Freedom News

New Year noise demos: Get thee to the prison gates

December 27th: The darkest night of the year is done, but for nearly 84,000 people in British jails the New Year can be rough as they’re isolated from loved ones.
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The Social Centre Bulletin: Manchester Winter Shelter and a Happy New Year

December 23rd: As winter creeps in a handful of locals decided that the councils apathy regarding the homeless simply isn't acceptable and set about doing something about it.

Brighton: As council seals arches, where do the people go?

December 17th: On Thursday 12th and Friday 13th several arches and shelters above Madeira Drive, at Black Rock, spaces which had housed a community of people over the summer were sealed off with metal grilles — the question has to be where are those people now?

The first post election anti-Boris rally (of many)

December 14th: A protest outside Downing Street against the newly-elected Prime Minister last night saw a bit of edge that has been sorely lacking in recent years, say our people on the ground.

Manc Bookfair 2019

Report: Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair

December 10th: One of the reasons I love Manchester is that it’s always had an attitude of looking out for each other that comes with being broke.

Lecturers and cleaners stand together as 1,000 picket UCL

December 4th: Up to 1,000 members of academics union UCU and base union IWGB and their supporters walked the pickets today as part of the first-ever joint strike between cleaners and academic staff at University College London (UCU).

Brighton: local people shut down weapons factory to stop war crimes

November 25th: Local people in Brighton have blocked shipments from a Brighton arms factory EDO MBM Technology Ltd today in order to stop its ongoing supply of war crimes.

XR leak: Hallam Holocaust comments were a deliberate ‘provocation’

November 24th: A memo from controversial Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam, leaked to Freedom, suggests his offensive interview with Der Spiegel was a deliberate tactic to “provoke a big media reaction.” Hallam’s interview with the German newspaper, in which he suggested the Holocaust was “almost a normal event …

Pie 'n' Mash

The Social Centre Bulletin: Fash Attack Pie ‘n’ Mash

November 21st: Squatting is the housing equivalent of the cover of A Kestrel for a Knave.

UCL outsourcing dispute: Are you listening now, provost?

November 20th: Our man on the ground reports on yesterday’s rowdy IWGB union pickets at University College London (UCL) against outsourcing and for pay parity.