This text was contributed to Freedom by Leila Al-Shami: British Syrian activist and writer, co-author (with Robin Yassin-Kassab) of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Leila’s blog on popular struggles, human rights and social justice from an anti-authoritarian perspective can be found here. On Saturday regime and Russian airstrikes intensified on Idlib in what appears
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Freedom News Review – November 12
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
Activists blockade two Elbit sites in Bristol
Lock-on devices inside vans used to block the gates of Israeli arms company R&D hub in Filton and headquarters at Aztec West ~ Scott Harris ~ Palestine Action says its activists today blockaded the entrances of two sites in Bristol operated by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company.
Fugitive antifascist Johann G. arrested on train in Germany
Televised appeal and surveillance operation preceded the arrest, as authorities clamp down on alleged associates in the Antifa East and Budapest cases ~ Juju Alerta ~ Antifascist activist Johann G.
Demonstrators demand justice after Valencia floods
For two weeks, municipalities in the region have been virtually left to their own devices by public authorities, as much of the population turns to mutual aid networks to find survivors and provide material support ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ From Thursday and through the weekend, numerous demonstrations have taken place throughout the district of
“You can actually see this ‘far right international’ taking shape”
Grzegorz Piotrowski discusses far right power and its international networking and funding ~ Uri Gordon ~ The far right agenda has never been so powerful since the end of the second World War.