~ Mike and Jon have a chat about the ramifications of the Gorton and Denton by-election, Spycops and roads protest, the prospects of war in Iran an…
Anarchist News Review: Greens v Reform and the US gears up for war
Tag: spycops
Road protests infiltration: More questions than answers
Watching spycop Jim Boyling at the public inquiry, I felt like he had actually always held us in contempt ~ Helen Beynon ~ Earlier this month, the …
Anarchist News Review: Heads are rolling at Labour HQ, but not *that* head
~ Kell and Simon discuss Starmer’s doomed attempt to save his skin and the latest hole Labour’s found itself in courtesy of the New Ne…
A wall of electronic eyes replacing human feeling
We’re caught in a lose-lose situation in the modern media world: refusal lessens our reach, engaging sets us up as targets ~ Rob Ray ~ A couple o…
Spycops inquiry update: Victims’ needs are last in line
The UCPI speaks of taking a trauma-based approach, but its actions are constantly squeezing those who were spied upon ~ Donal O’Driscoll, Underco…
Anarchist News Review: What have human rights ever done for us?
~ Jon and Simon round off the year with a trip into the weeds talking about reaching the Mark Jenner period in the Spycops saga, Labour’s disgust…
Freedom winter 2025-6: Watched, databased, yet to be controlled
Editorial from our new journal issue on Surveillance exploring states’ ambitions to constrain and refuse our freedom – and ways to fight ba…
Did police know their informant was a paedophile?
The recent conviction is especially troubling for those who had children at Newbury Bypass protest camp ~ Helen Beynon ~ The man I now know as Nich…
Holding back the police state: Interview with Kate Wilson
Fifteen years on, one of the women who blew the lid off the Spycops scandal talks to Freedom about her political insights — and what the Unde…
Lukashenko’s tentacles: Scams, phishing and threats to families
How the Belarussian KGB has been targetting the diaspora in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ In 2023, a scandal broke out when a Belarusian opposition act…
“McLibel demonstrated the huge potential of coordinated grassroots action”
As the UK spycops inquiry continues, a prominent target of police overreach reflects on their internationalism—and ours ~ Dave Morris ~ Victo…
Undercover Inquiry: Prejudice and propaganda
Infiltrating Freedom gave MI5 a trove of 80s trivia; for the future Met spy chief, it was a racy adventure
Spycops Inquiry to hear evidence of Freedom infiltration
Undercover Roger Pearce — later head of the Special Demonstration Squad — attempted to link anarchist paper to Northern Irish republicans in the …
Infiltration and what we can do about it
Every few years, the issue of infiltration into anarchist and activist groups becomes a topic of conversation again.
The story spycops tried to hide: part I
The closing hearing in the first “tranche” of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) took place earlier this year.
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Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
