Items discussed in this program: Valencia anger after flooding • First contact with Ocalan in almost 4 years • Trump victory and the ‘far right international’ • UK at Climate summit • AI job losses
Freedom News Review – November 12
Tag: Kurdistan
First contact with Abdullah Öcalan in years as conflict escalates in Iraqi Kurdistan
Supporters hail prison visit a step towards a political resolution to the Kurdish question ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ Supporters of incarcerated Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have made a significant political breakthrough as Turkish authorities permitted his first face-to-face meeting with a family member for almost four years. The Kurdish National Congress (KNK) reported on 24 October that Öcalan
Turkey’s Escalation in Iraqi Kurdistan
Turkey has exponentially increased its military presence in Iraqi Kurdistan recently, causing concern over regional stability in a crisis that shows the importance of political systems in a region often reduced to ethnic groups. This most recent militarisation started in June, with the Kurdish National Congress (KNK) releasing a press statement on July 1st, denouncing
Kurdish solidarity crackdown
How “anti-terror” laws used to silence meaningful dissent and solidarity with oppressed peoples.
For Kurds, Kissinger’s cynical realpolitik capped a century of US betrayal
In Kissinger’s ultra-realist perspective, the state and only the state could serve as a legitimate or functional vehicle for foreign policy, with the lives, experiences and suffering of people living in and under those states so much chaff in the wind.
Police invade Kurdish Assembly
This invasion by the Metropolitan Police comes only two days after UK defence minister Grant Shapps and Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler held a meeting agreeing to “enhance” defence and security cooperation.
The art of freedom: Strategies for organising and collective resistance
Stateless democracy is not only possible but is already being built.
Reflections on the Turkish election
“Erdoğan will never allow a loss, they will always steal the votes they need.”
As election fraud shows, Erdoğan would never cede power
The repression of the Turkish state is ever-present.
“If Erdogan loses there will be a big party. If he wins, people will go to prison”
Freedom interviewed with two election observers from the UK in Turkey for the presidential election:
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Notes from the US: “This is Trump’s America now”
Catastrophic fires and racist attacks, climate denial and religious coercion—and Trump hasn’t even taken power yet ~ Louis Further ~ Next week—in contravention of Section 3 of the 14th amendment to the US constitution—the leader of the most powerful nation in the world will be a convicted felon, and someone who has evaded three other
Anarchist News Review: Glasgow Gaza action, Wolff, soldiers and violent acts, Labour and AI
Chatting about what’s happening in economics, tech and direct action with a US twist thanks to this week’s guest, James Birmingham.
Exclusive: Braverman tried to curtail Spycops inquiry
FOIA request reveals Home Office attempted to change terms of reference, as campaigners warn of “impossibly tight schedule” for proper disclosure ~ Scott Harris ~ A Freedom of Information Act request reveals that Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman attempted to curtail the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
Football utopias: On and off the pitch with Republica and the Cowfolk
Both teams share a unique friendship based on anti-fascist and activist priorities, providing a safe home for identities who don’t fit the typical sporting trajectory ~ Alice Hoole ~ The Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls (Cowfolk) and Republica Internationale were founded forty years ago in Bristol and Leeds.
Glasgow factory smashed overnight for ‘links to Gaza genocide’
Parker Hannifin is a supplier to Leonardo and other major weapons companies ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Palestine Action Scotland says it targeted the offices of military parts manufacturer Parker Hannifin at its Glasgow production facility on Sunday night, damaging the building and covering it in red paint.
