Last week, we spoke to community nurses who are being given one cotton mask per worker and told to re-use them.
Are you going to clap for the NHS tonight?
Tag: COVID-19
No one left alone in the hands of the state: Greek prison Solidarity Fund calls for emergency support
The Greek Prison Solidarity Fund have commenced an online fundraiser, asking for emergency support during the time of COVID-19.
Mutual Aid: It’s a class sabotage!
When I first saw this article from Freedom News about Labour sabotage of Mutual Aid groups I literally screamed “who from our group leaked this!”.
Evictions make us sick!: squatters take action on Mayday
Squat solidarity!
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“We need to create the place we’ll meet again.
New zine: Chasing Dreams, Fighting Nightmares
A rather interesting zine ended up in the Freedom editor’s inbox a few days back and its creators, RebelNet, asked us to share it on Mayday if we liked it.
“Calling us heroes just makes it ok when we die”: why we took to the streets for our keyworkers
On Wednesday, it was Workers’ Memorial Day.
This pandemic is political, stop pretending it isn’t
So, on day #38.5 of the quarantine, a lot of our only recourse for having fun is now arguing with people on social media.
Humans are not the virus: why ecofascism is bad for you
From economic to environmental panic and finally the current pandemic, it seems like this century will be remembered as the age of global crises.
Mutual aid, solidarity, and direct action: GAF calls for Mayday actions
Despite the lockdown, the Green Anticapitalist Front (GAF) has called for Mayday actions: just in a different from traditional format.
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.
France blockades: The leaderless escalate
Yesterday’s day of action saw Bloquons Tout stepping out of the shadows nationwide—and facing major police repression ~ punkacademic ~ Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Wednesday (10 September) as the first day of action organised under the banner Bloquons Tout (“Block Everything”) saw widespread protests and blockades in defence
