As ten Leicester students are convicted for protesting the University’s complicity in the arms trade, the silence of the right’s supposed ‘de…
Free speech on campus? Only for racists and transphobes
Tag: free speech
The right discards its free speech fig leaf
The political classes’ consensus is that the left has a problem with Palestine – but panic and the urge to repress is not coming from that quar…
Free speech for presidents
Following the short-lived occupation of the US Capitol building, Twitter and a number of other social media platforms have banned US President Dona…
Tommy Robinson’s rally showed one thing: He doesn’t care about free speech
When two thousand people turned out yesterday to support the far-right media personality’s big show against a State/BBC conspiracy to destroy…
Iran: Sohail Arabi thirst strike briefly suspended after seizure
Long-term anarchist political prisoner Sohail Arabi briefly started drinking water again on Thursday having experienced a seizure, one week into hi…
The free speech article Spiked Online didn’t carry today
Theresa May announced yesterday that web firms could get just two hours to take down “terrorist content” or face fines — our esteemed…
Why does the left hate free speech? Interesting question…
Since the election of Donald Trump, a right-wing discussion point which had long been burbling in national press outlets such as The Times and the …
Germany: Indymedia Linksunten shut down as police raid journalists’ homes
In a chilling extension of the ongoing crackdown against anarchists in Germany, The Ministry of the Interior has shut down radical open news platfo…
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Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
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Lament for a lost revolution
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Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
