While Israel brands it as ‘terrorism’, Genoa dockworkers threaten mass action should the flotilla be intercepted ~ Santiago Navarro F, Avispa Midia ~ As the Sumud Flotilla sails through the Mediterranean, Israel’s stance has been swift, threatening to label its crew, from more than 44 countries, as terrorists and to arrest and imprison them.
It comes to something when even voicing support for a non-violent direct action group risks being designated as crossing the line, but Labour is no defender of freedom of speech and protest.
The government’s attempt to brand non-violent direct activists as “terrorists” has already backfired ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ This was the week when language in the UK temporarily gave up.
The slippage from containing WMDs to calls for regime change rings all too familiar — but wars’ main function is still to preserve regimes ~ Simon, Andy and Uri discuss this weeks headlines, including the scorching weather, the mountain-to-molehill cheapening of terrorism charges, direct action in Germany, and ruling-class realignment in Britain and the USA
A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat ~ Orly Noy ~ It has been more than 46 years since I left Iran with my family at the age of nine.
Israel’s attack on Iran marks the latest phase of global war capitalism—subcontracted settler-colonialism and genocidal thanatopolitics converge, as Western regimes and their enemies arm and threaten with Armageddon ~ Blade Runner ~ The Israeli state has escalated once again, launching war on Iran with a large-scale strike—Operation Rising Lion—which began on June 13, hitting over
Our weekly news review covering everything from Reform’s prospects in the polls to thoughts on the Spanish blackouts ~ The International Court of Justice and Amnesty International have gone after Israel’s actions in Gaza over the last week, while Palestine Action, Youth Demand and peace campaigners at Lakenheath have pushed for Britain to cut cooperation.
In Britain, action to divest from genocide is showing no sign of abating, while South Africa is hammering the legal case home at the International Court of Justice ~ Dominic Free ~ “The world has failed Palestinian people.
It seems like in the year 2024, governments and the people supporting them have accomplished the impossible in terms of normalising death—but refusal persists ~ Juju Alerta ~ With a wild demonstration to enliven the St Pauli district of Hamburg, people from different countries gathered in the city in mid-November to exchange stories and discussions
Freedom’s winter edition highlights solidarity across borders, then and now Internationalism’s a twisty beast, prone to making fools of us all.
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
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.
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,
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.
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