It’s back, it has another excuse, and it’s still an extraordinarily bad idea ~ Rob Ray ~ In a very specific, eye-rolling-and-muttering-…
Identity Cards? Again? Really?
Tag: policing
How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management
Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state ~ Blade Runner ~ The UK is expanding its use of p…
Anarchist News Review: Anti-fascist crackdown, Stock market falls, new BDS and predicting murder
“There’s a strong tradition of far-right activism in universities, anti-fascists have been trying to combat that and they’ve been…
Climate camp cancelled after police raid seizes infrastructure, 22 arrested
Reclaim the Power activists held for conspiracy to disrupt Drax power station, while violent far right faces no pre-emptive raids — Reclaim t…
Between fascists and cut liberals
There aren’t many positive takeaways from the far-right tantrums, but possibly a few lessons
CALL-OUT: Let us know about the policing of Palestine solidarity protests
Freedom republished NetPol’s callout in the last few days of responding – by 29 February 2024
Stamped on a human facial recognition database, forever
Rob Ray writes on proposals to roll out facial recognition cameras across Britain, alongside the bringing of passport photos into police databases.
Take me down but I’m back up again
MADALDN writes on surviving gang violence in London, how she got out, and her later turn to music and activism.
Toby Shone and the spectre of ‘anarchist terror’
Having failed last year to show its much heralded “anti-terror” raids against anarchists in 2020 were justified, the State last week lost a sec…
Black Protest Legal Support condemns police violence against Free Palestine protesters
Black Protest Legal Support (BPLS) has condemned police violence seen in London during the Free Palestine and Colombia protests last Saturday.
Legal News Digest: Nov-Dec 2020
From the legislative war on sex workers to new rules governing criminal record disclosure, Carl Spender is here with a round-up of the last month&#…
Keir Starmer isn’t a sellout.
It may be an odd headline for an anarchist to write about a Labour leader, but hear me out.
Police Killings and the Settler State
In a new article for Freedom written following anti-racist protests which have reverberated around the globe, Peter Gelderloos considers how histor…
Police exploit anti-racist BLM rally to arrest green activists
Three people, including green activists, were arrested by a City of London snatch squad at today’s Black Lives Matter march.
From Minneapolis to London: who polices the police?
Many of us have been following recent events in Minneapolis where a community is resisting police terror following the murder of George Floyd, with…
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Israeli academia “under command”
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Revolt in Albania: Besa and Flamingos
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Southampton riot: Yes, it IS about race
The far right’s racial grievance redirects anger away from power and towards its victims ~ Blade Runner ~ Several hundred people gathered in …
