A Trust holding assets for a radical progressive organisation is there to serve — not to act as jury or boss to the workforce from positions of assumed authority
Trustees should not be bosses: A note on the crisis at Peace News
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Mass resignation closes Peace News
The entire workforce and board at longrunning anti-war paper Peace News (PN) have resigned en masse, citing a “tidal wave of intimidation, harassment, and threats” from the group’s trustees. In an audacious move to get their story out, staff secretly wrote an entire eight-page supplement for the bi-monthly publication, explaining everything that’s happened from their
Get Involved: London Anarchist Festival
As some of you may know by now, Freedom and Housmans joined forces to organise Anarchist Festival in October. Other groups and venues are more than welcome to join. Here is a text with details from the Anarchist Festival crew. (zb) In light of the absence of the London Anarchist Bookfair this year Freedom and
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Scrapping the Vagrancy Act
The criminalisation of homelessness and poverty is not truly ending—only being reshaped ~ Tony ~ On 10 June 2025 the Government confirmed it will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring 2026 (you just can’t rush these things), and whilst the news was widely and justifiably welcomed by homelessness charities, we should sound a note
Notes from the US: Reaction and Resistance
As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests against arbitrary and sadistic raids on non-White families—first in Los Angeles and increasingly in other cities across the US—is by and large what you get on the ground.
Report from Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair
The stalls, workshops, and after-party gig made for an event to be remembered ~ Don B ~ On Saturday (June 7th) the fourth annual Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair was held at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle Upon-Tyne.
Anarchist Review: LA crackdown, Aid flotilla hijacking and Train sabotage in Russia
There’s cause for optimism in a greater public awareness of how media manipulates reality – but social media is far more insidious …
Dockers successfully block arms shipment to Israel
French and Italian dockworkers unite in practical resistance to the Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ David TNnzk ~ On Thursday, 5 June, workers at the port of Marseille unionised with CGT and backed by a solidarity presidium, successfully refused three containers full of military equipment which were scheduled to be loaded onto the Contship Era,
