Just Stop Oil are being branded “fanatics” for disruptive actions whose like hardly raised an eyebrow a decade ago
The extreme broadness of ‘extremism’
Tag: Activism
Infiltration and what we can do about it
Every few years, the issue of infiltration into anarchist and activist groups becomes a topic of conversation again. Most recently it has been the journalist Max Parry, targeting Palestine Action. Journalists are the least of the threats against us – the list includes informers, corporate spies and the police. Anyone campaigning for justice or change
Where are the crip Utopias?
Crips are excluded on the sole basis that they cannot conform to the ableist ideal of an activist
The herbal solidarity project resisting state oppression
Freedom introduces its new PROFILE category, where we will focus on people or organisations; we begin with activist Nicole Rose.
Hundreds of thousands back on the streets for Gaza
Today’s Gaza demo was massive, with only 9 arrests.
Earth First! winter moot 2024
9th-11th February at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.
Israeli government interfere in prosecutions of Palestine actionists
The disclosures, made under the Freedom of Information Act, show the Israeli Embassy in London attempting to exert diplomatic influence on the prosecution of Palestine Action activists.
Houseboaters to ballot for action against license fee hike
Members of the National Bargee Traveller Association (NBTA) are gearing up to take on the Canal and River Trust (CRT) over what they say is a sham consultation aimed at imposing punitive fees on people who lack a home mooring. Boaters are waiting for updates on a new licensing structure which was mooted earlier thus
Protest against the Bibby Stockholm, on land and water
WEDNESDAY 31ST MAY. 5PM UNTIL LATE. FALMOUTH DOCKS GATE, and ON THE WATERS.
Non accidental death of an activist
Cathy was a fatality of the war without bullets, a term she coined to refer to the many vicious forms of violence being waged on people deemed surplus to the requirements of neoliberal capitalism.
Recent Articles
Radical Reprint: Freedom struggles against government raids
The beginning of 1945 was a turbulent time for Freedom Press, along with anarchism in Britain and western Europe ~ Rob Ray ~ While the Germans were mounting their last, doomed offensive, the outcome of World War II was already no longer in doubt.
Introduction to the Twenty-First century
Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation ~ Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi ~ A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently earned another, more interesting, nickname: “an agent of chaos”, the Guardian called him on December 20, echoing a definition that
Remembering Louise Michel: “Now I have only the revolution left”
120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905.
US vehicle attacks: The toll of militarism
People with war trauma in a shitty economy—it’s practically set up to make terrorists ~ James Birmingham ~ On January 1, 2025 two acts of violence (albeit one largely self-inflicted) occurred within hours of each other, one in Las Vegas and the other in New Orleans.
Zapatistas anticipate fall of capitalism within seven generations
At international gathering in Oventik, Zapatista communities decry recent attacks and desire “to build for life on collective lands” ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ The first session of International Meetings of Rebellions and Resistance 2024-2025 was held in Oventik, in the EZLN-liberated territories in Southeast Mexico between December 28-30.
