A method once reserved for authoritarian regimes or periods of war is now being implemented by the French government in New Caledonia
Blocking the Internet during revolt: Kanaky and the suburbs as laboratories
Tag: France
New Caledonia: Kanak revolt confronts French state and settler militias
The revolt started a week ago in the south Pacific territory, after a series of disputed independence referenda.
Radical Reprint: The French Anarchist Conference
One of the most useful aspects of sometimes dry reports from gatherings is the snapshot of otherwise amorphous movements — in this case, the Fren…
La Baudrière evicted
Yesterday at 6 am in Montreuil, the anarcha-feminist TransPédéGouine squat La Baudrière was evicted.
La Baudrière under eviction threat from August 21st
We need people to sleep from the night of the 21st onwards
French squatters organise against evictions
The squats have received a lot of support from the neighbourhood, and solidarity is being organized.
France: Water convoy to press for action as drought deepens in Poitou
The bicycle and tractor rally will travel from the south-western town of Sainte Soline to Paris to demand accountability over the imposition of con…
France: Sabotage at the sewage site
In a new communique, the Peasant Confederation has claimed responsibility for a fire that has shut down a controversial new effluent disposal site …
The roots of the French riots
The gap that we usually see in heavily policed states between the “violence-done-to-people-of-colour-by-cops” and “what-those-cops-have-to-sa…
Macron’s authoritarianism sparks uprising
Macron once promised to turn the French State mechanism into a “start-up” State, and this is exactly what he delivers: an authoritarian entity that…
Call to action: We are all comrades of Serge
We ask all those in France and around the world who recognise themselves in this struggle to make the week of May 1st an intensive week of actions …
Comatose water defender slandered by media
Freedom reproduces a communiqué from water defenders in Sainte Soline, France: Regarding the media slander of Serge and the other injured of Saint…
Trash guerilla: Bins to block Paris!
Freedom reports good praxis from our comrades in Paris, via Paris Luttes: Let’s block Paris with bins!
France and the anarchist general strike of 1912
Much of the December 1912 issue of Freedom was given over to a celebration of its star writer Peter Kropotkin’s 70th birthday celebrations.
Syndicalism – a working-class conception of socialism
Taking a look into the archives of Freedom in November 1912 as a wave of militant, non-hierarchical trade unionism reached its high water mark.
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