Coordinated antifascist defense has been inspiring, but it must grow to become omnipresent — Tuesday July 30 saw the start of an uprising of far-right terror on British streets. The Southport Mosque was viciously attacked after a vigil held for the child victims of the Southport stabbings. Despite the attempts of the community to hold
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Labour embraces austerity to outflank the Tories
Budget shortfalls can be solved without major spending cuts, but Labour’s economic strategy is driven by electoral concerns
Live election results watch-along: July 4th from 9:45pm
Join us on election night for anarchist analysis and reactions as the results come in. Anarchist pundits discussing elections? If it’s not paradoxical you may be doing it wrong! Following on from our panel discussion of the campaign a couple of weeks ago, Freedom will be broadcasting a full night of election analysis on July
A transformative election—but in which direction?
We must prepare for an extreme right surge after the polls, no matter how few MPs the Tories and Reform end up with
Five horrors from the Tory and Labour manifestos
At times it looks like they are trying to outdo each other in being nasty Facing a crash at the polls on July 4, for a while now the Tories have been trying to look as tough as they can on a range of socially conservative issues, in the hope of overturning their polling fortunes.
Freedom pre-election panel: Live on YouTube, 13th June, 7pm
Join us for a discussion of the snap spectacle, and the threats contained in both main party manifestos
UK local elections: Time to take Starmerism seriously
Results point towards a massive Labour victory, but describing Starmer’s position as Blairite is too simplistic
Palestine Action scale trees & occupy the ground beneath to uproot Israel’s arms factory in Shenstone
Yesterday morning, Palestine Actionists set up a ground camp and scaled the adjacent trees, erecting unreachable hammocks overlooking UAV Engines Ltd — the Israeli drones factory that has rightly been a prime target for extensive action as part of the #ShutElbitDown campaign. Activists have confirmed they plan to hold their positions, and will not leave
Palestine Action forces Elbit landlord to abandon Birmingham offices
Inside sources, as well as activists monitoring the site, have confirmed to Palestine Action that real estate giant Fisher German, an accomplice in Elbit war crimes, have been forced to abandon their Harborne office ‘Vine Property Management‘. This comes after relentless direct action aimed at the site, with a rooftop occupation staged last summer and
Immigration raids blocked in Leeds and Manchester
In the year and a bit since the iconic resistance that stopped an immigration raid in Glasgow’s Kenmure Street, mass resistance to raids seems to have spread, with Edinburgh, Dalston and Peckham being three recent examples. This week, it was the turn of Leeds and Manchester to shut down immigration raids. Leeds Anti Raids Action