Delirious with fevers and newly extended powers, British cops are well and truly out of control. Whether it’s Derbyshire police following dog walkers with drones or Lancashire constabulary issuing 123 enforcement notices in four days, front line coppers are running around like heavily armed headless chickens, fining, arresting or, in one horrific case, tasering anyone
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks. Oppression In the middle of last month Trump did something which can best be described as highly provocative, destructive and regrettably consistent with the mind of a maniac: he had the
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. EDO MBM is a subsidiary of the major US arms and technology corporation L3 Harris Technologies, an S&P 500 Index company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Since 2001 around 100 people have been killed by terrorists in the UK. Since the Tories came to power in 2010 their austerity regime has resulted in at least 130,000 preventable deaths according to reports.
What follows is an edited version of a brochure written in French and translated into several languages. The brochure is available here. To aid readability in web format I have changed the structure somewhat but the words and ideas remain the same. The text is comprised of a series of interviews conducted mainly by email
With yet another general election looming in Britain, this extensive treatment of the concept by veteran anarchist activist Lucien van der Walt looks at South Africa’s post-Apartheid experiences under the long governance of the ANC. Originally produced for a debate at Khayelitsha, Cape Town, van der Walt’s speech was recently transcribed and first appeared at
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks. Environment With the proviso that anarchists can’t really get too excited about legislatures and lawmaking by the élite, support your chin before reading about goings on in Oregon late in June
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks. Racism Trump’s and his administration’s hatred of (non-white) immigrants is fanatical. But it is not so fanatical that Trump’s business won’t employ what are commonly called ‘illegals’ by the racist right:
Alexander Reid Ross takes an in-depth look at the genesis of the new Red fascism as it metastasized in Russia and spread to the alt right in the US. “What’s wrong?” I asked my friend Mikhail* as he stumbled into the dorm room. “You seem shaken up.” “It’s nothing,” he said, sitting next to me
Louis Further looks over the racist rhetoric and damaging actions which have been carried out in the land of the free over recent weeks. Shortly after last month’s Midterm elections in a state with a history of racial killings, Mississippi, candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith made an astonishing comment when praising a supporter: “If he invited me
A poignant story of a couple struggling to understand each other with the backdrop of Europe as a crossroads
Join us on election night for anarchist analysis and reactions as the results come in.
In the summer of 2022, I gained insight into the British penal system when I was jailed for a month following direct action against Elbit---this is my prison diary (pt.2)
GRiD processors were discovered during this month’s raid on Instro Precision Palestine Action says its activists this morning occupied of GRiD Defence Systems, a computer and processor supplier to Elbit, Israel’s largest arms company.
New Caledonia has a quarter of the world’s nickel reserves, and each faction—separatists, loyalists and the State—have possessed one of the major factories Despite ongoing repression and the French colonial authorities’ announcements of a return to normal, the situation in New Caledonia is far from being resolved.
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