Isolating our bodies in fluorescent-lit cells 24/7 has proven unable to desensitise us ~ Hybachi LeMar ~ It’s no coincidence so many of us on the…
The Frankensteinian efforts to control us have failed
Tag: abolition
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
No consent to confinement
UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
Review: The Black Schooner
A accessible and engaging account of the Amistad slave-ship rebellion ~ Jay Arachnid ~ Since the rulers of class societies began to impose themselv…
Everyday abolition in the Twin Cities
Living in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, I listen to the stories of other abolitionists to learn how they came to this radical approach ~ Camille Tinnin …
Freedom winter 2025-6: Watched, databased, yet to be controlled
Editorial from our new journal issue on Surveillance exploring states’ ambitions to constrain and refuse our freedom – and ways to fight ba…
Abolishing the family: A survivor’s perspective
The family is marketed as a safe space, a place of love and mutual care, but this is not supported by the data—How do we bring our experience…
Statement on recent Kill the Bill sentencing
This May we have seen another round of sentencing for at least 4 comrades, for standing up to the police during the 2021 Kill the Bill uprising in …
Justice nowhere: Introducing Bristol Copwatch
Freedom’s resident cop-botherer, Carl Spender, sits down with John and Kat from Bristol Copwatch to discuss the group’s first year of e…
Movements First, Solutions Later
Netpol’s Kevin Blowe argues that Britain’s nascent abolitionist movement needs to focus its energy into long-term grassroots organising…
This is not a call out
The following reflection on conflict, care and pain in political organising was submitted on condition of anonymity.
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The Frankensteinian efforts to control us have failed
Isolating our bodies in fluorescent-lit cells 24/7 has proven unable to desensitise us ~ Hybachi LeMar ~ It’s no coincidence so many of us on the…
Maja T interview: “I resist in the cage of isolation”
Locked in a Hungarian prison, she's been living in a cell without social interaction for two years: "It's an inhumane system that prevents even min…
Bristol activists blockade Elbit contractors
Workers at logistics provider DSV were “very supportive”, say organisers ~ Scott Harris ~ Disarm Bristol says a group of almost 40 pro…
Confessions of a communard: Meeting the people where they are
Our strategy for 2027 has been about visible grassroots initiatives which announce our presence ~ Wren Albion ~ At the end of 2026 A Commune in the…
Crackdown in Turkey ahead of NATO summit
Hundreds of arrests, demonstrations repressed, journalists and opponents targeted as Erdoğan bears down on opposition ~ Osservatorio Repressione …
