A massive bailiff operation backed by police ended the occupation of a landmark building in Bristol yesterday after two months of operation.
Overkill on Gloucester Road: Bristol occupation evicted
Tag: Bristol
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 existence and the painstaking work of building a grassroots police monitoring project.
BREAKING: Bristol uni threatens to withhold bursary payments from rent strikers
The management of the University of Bristol is attempting to break the student rent strike by witholding vital bursary payments from some of the most disadvantaged strikers.
Bristol: Picton Lane site resists eviction
Last week Freedom reported that the Picton Lane site in Bristol was facing eviction after having been given a notice to leave.
Bristol: urgent call for support to resist site eviction
Freedom received the following call-out from the people living in the Picton Lane site in Bristol.
Bristol: city council seeks prosecution of slave trader’s statue-topplers
The Bristol City Council have formally reported the toppling of the slave trader Edward Colston’s statue as criminal damage, triggering a police investigation into the matter.
The 2020 Anarchist Bookfairs List
With the recent announcements of dates for Liverpool and the Anti-University, our list of anarchist and radical bookfairs across Britain and Ireland is getting pretty full of events – including Bookfair 2020, the first anarchist showing of its kind in London for three years.
BREAKING: Protesters against Turkish invasion blockade arms companies in Filton
Activists have staged a lock-on outside BAE Filton (South Gloucestershire) this morning.
Poor, but not forgotten! The remembering of a Bristol workhouse
Back in 2012, some historians from the Bristol Radical History Group (BRH) were sinking a couple of shandies, and pouring over old ordnance survey maps.
Against Their Wars: A Festival of Hidden Histories of Resistance to WW1 begins in Bristol
The First World War & it’s Legacy: Commemoration, Conflict & Conscience festival will run on 27-28 April the M-Shed in Bristol.
Recent Articles
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
