How “anti-terror” laws used to silence meaningful dissent and solidarity with oppressed peoples.
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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:
Terrorism charge brought against supporter of Kurdish liberation
On 27 October 2022, I received a letter informing me I am being charged under Section 13 (1) and. (3) of the Terrorism Act 2000. The crime was that: ‘On 23rd April 2022, in a public place, namely Whitehall London displayed an article, namely a flag, in such a way or in such circumstances as
France: Hunger striker Libre Flot hospitalised
Now on his 27th day of refusing food, the former Rojava fighter is still demanding that the accusation of “terrorist association” against him be rescinded. Flot, who began his hunger strike on February 28th, was experiencing severe chest pains when he was admitted to hospital last Saturday for an examination, describing “strong chest pressure accompanied
The frontline is everywhere: Communique from a comrade in Syria
On the day of a Call to Action against Turkey’s invasion of Rojava, Syria, in a week where there was mass civil disobedience on the streets of London, molotovs and State-murder in Hong Kong, and police taken hostage in indigenous protests in Ecuador, we got in touch with one of our machine-gun-strapping, Isis-blapping, fascist-fragging anarchist
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Russian Anarchist “will finish tenth grade in pre-trial detention”
Lyubov Lizunova is accused of terrorism for a "Death to the Regime" graffiti and "approving" the arson of military recruitment offices
As night follows day, repression follows Thatcherism
The naïve ones believe that the economic system that is causing the trouble will also miraculously save us all.
Palestine Action blockades Elbit’s Instro Precision
Direct action has again halted production at Instro, a subsidiary of Israel's largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, preventing all entry.
7 day picket of US Embassy begins
The protest is inspired by the non-stop picket held outside the South African Embassy in London from 1986 until Mandela's release in February 1990.
“Why we squatted Gordon Ramsay’s pub”
Freedom received this statement from the Camden Art Cafe squatters who have liberated Gordon Ramsay's York and Albany Hotel restaurant in Camden:
