Based on the reaction of usually coherent lefties on my social media feeds you’d have thought Margaret Thatcher had been resurrected from the grave, only to be slaughtered by the ghost of Tony Benn. On the 18th of March 2016 the Work and Pensions Secretary, and prominent Tory hate figure, Iain Duncan Smith had resigned
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Greece: Harsh sentencing for squatters
Matrozou 45 re-occupiers sentenced to 77 months together while 79 defenders of the Prosfygika community go on trial today ~ Kit Dimou ~ In Athens, the trial continues today of 79 defenders of the Prosfygika community who resisted a police raid in 2022.
Malcolm Archibald: 50 years of Black Cat Press
In this interview, the founder of Edmonton’s anarchist publishing house looks back on its legacy ~ Sean Patterson ~ For the past five decades, Black Cat Press (BCP) in Edmonton, Canada, has served as a local hub for the city’s radical community and as an important publisher of anarchist material.
Valencia floods: 70+ dead, unions say firms risked workers’ lives
Ikea trapped its workers inside warehouses while Uber Eats and Glovo forced couriers to make usual deliveries ~ Emilia Aiguader ~ The city of Valencia was today dealing with the consequences of a devastating flood.
Labour’s anti-trans health betrayal
Trans people must form coalitions to face a government joining the side of cruelty ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ From the genocide in Gaza to refusing to apologise for the enslavement of millions of Africans, from the two-child cap to banning all trans healthcare for under 18s – Keir Starmer’s government is showing us that
Freedom News Review 29.10.2024
Items discussed in this program: German antifascist arrests and deportations • Valencia square occupation for decent housing • Lisbon riots after police racist killing • Escalation in Chiapas • UK budget and Labour’s capitalist cult of growth • Tommy Robinson sentencing and the threat of fascist “victimhood”