Yesterday evening officers from the Met’s infamous Territorial Support Group shut down a protest called in memory of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan,…
Cops shut down Westminster protest for Mohamud Hassan
Tag: coronavirus
Legal: Do the new coronavirus restrictions make protests illegal?
Update 16/09/20 – Shortly after the article below was published, the government reduced the maximum size of (most) legal gatherings from 30 t…
Your perceptions are wrong
“That’s just your perception” is a phrase I heard a lot as a trade union activist.
Don’t Despair, Organise! An introduction to the (yet-unnamed) confederation of Solidarity Funds
The following text was contributed to Freedom by a person involved in Goose Green Solidarity Fund: a newly formed organisation for people who live …
‘Something has changed in the power dynamic’: interviews with anarchists from Minneapolis and NYC
On 25 May George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the las…
Experience: the police do not care about protecting arrestees from coronavirus
Below is an account of someone arrested on a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on their experiences in police custody.
Reflections on the incompetence of the Johnson government
Being ideologically opposed to government, or the very least top-down imposed upon us government, we can sometimes just criticise government action…
In the age of Corona anti-fascists need factual analysis, not meme research
By now most people will have seen, and probably participated in, the outrage at the anti-lockdown ‘mass gatherings’ that are set to hav…
The gamble with workers’ lives
The Government has released new guidelines and new procedures regarding lockdown in recent days.
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