Freedom News

31/01/2025

The official investigation is widely seen as a cover-up, having ignored suspicions of corruption as well as the underlying neglect and de-funding of infrastructures by the neoliberal Mitsotakis government.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/31/greece-mass-protests-demand-justice-for-train-crash-victims/

30/01/2025

Tonight! And compered by our own Uri Gordon. All welcome, come and have a chat about how mutual aid rises in a crisis - an additional note is that Rhiannon Firth is also the author of Disaster Anarchy, a broader analysis of the topic which showcases how the spectre of mass looting and chaos is a useful fantasy for the re-establishing of State and capital control - when in fact co-operation and generosity are commonplace.

30/01/2025

To “comrades in Finland, the Baltics or Poland” she recommended “first aid skills and attending public defense courses, building drones, as well as many other civilian hobbies”.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/30/ukraine-solidarity-collectives-and-anarchists-in-the-ranks/

28/01/2025

The ”intelligence” behind AI is not artificial, but human, and a particular kind of human, at that. We cannot blame hunks of machinery for the prospect of perpetual, universal AI surveillance, or for being programmed to suggest death targets.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/28/artificial-intelligence-even-the-name-doesnt-compute/

27/01/2025

They described the accusation of attempted homicide raised against some of them as “a politically motivated escalation” which serves “to deter and legitimise the action against anti-fascist practice."
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/27/seven-anti-fascists-wanted-by-hungary-turn-themselves-in/

26/01/2025

Water, heat, light, food, a roof over our heads – they aren’t just things which the government does for us, or that a pretend-competitive market force magically provides in exchange for money. They’re how millions of people survive in order to do everything else.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/26/a-tsunami-is-made-of-many-droplets/

25/01/2025

brutal acts of repression, including the killings of protesters in 2020, as well as serious international scandals—all led to the dictator’s isolation and his full commitment to Putin, who saved the Belarusian economy from collapse several times
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/25/the-bizarre-ritual-of-re-elections-in-belarus/

25/01/2025

Trump's immigration policy is performative violence intended to pacify restless white people. But it won't actually improve their lives—only raise their relative status by ruining others' lives. It is the perfect distraction for a billionaire determined to concentrate wealth and power in his own hands at everyone else's expense.

What Trump does to the undocumented today will eventually be done to many more people. If the rest of us do not act in solidarity now, we cannot expect others to act in solidarity with us when we are the ones being arrested and herded into detention centers.

Solidarity is self-defense.

https://crimethinc.com/borders

24/01/2025

This place is an effective opposition to the Bordeaux-Dax-Toulouse High Speed ​​Line project, and the result of refusing the system, concrete, obedience, and oppression.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/24/in-pictures-land-occupation-against-hs-rail-in-france/

23/01/2025

Mutual aid and local organising could be crucial in the next few years, as well as intergenerational learning among anarchists and activists.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/23/do-it-yourselves-and-take-care-of-each-other/

22/01/2025

Aviva also still holds investments in funds which hold shares in the arms industry, including Elbit.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/22/bristol-aviva-centre-defaced-for-insuring-elbit/

22/01/2025

Cospito warned that his disturbing prosecution as supposedly having a “top role” in an anarchist organisation “opens wide the gates of 41 bis to anyone who disturbs power”, describing the case as “fundamentally an attack on freedom of thought and of the press”.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/22/italy-terrorism-charges-dropped-against-vetriolo-magazine/

22/01/2025

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/22/anarchist-news-review-us-inauguration-gaza-ceasefire-and-uk-moral-panics/

Discussing that N**i salute by Elon Musk (and the rather more important direction of travel to come), the not particularly encouraging situation following the Gaza ceasefire, and how moral panics are built around incidents like Stockport to empower State repression. Freedom editor Uri Gordon hosts a...

21/01/2025

The battered but standing dam has become a symbol of resistance for the Rojava communities. If the dam collapses, the floodwaters could release over 2 billion cubic meters of water, devastating countless villages, farmland, and lives downstream.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/21/rojava-civilians-defy-turkish-bombing-to-defend-tishrin-dam/

20/01/2025

As I translate his voluminous work, I am beginning to encounter a different Proudhon, who often seems to haunt the conversation when I tell other anarchists what I’m working on.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/20/will-the-real-proudhon-please-stand-up/

19/01/2025

There is no question of wholesale endorsement of everything this tireless writer put to paper, let alone its worst parts. Instead, we should be selective and look at the best of his ideas. Here are some of them.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/19/proudhon-in-the-21st-century/

18/01/2025

Proudhon's work must be viewed and received in its historical context, and with all its contradictions. Despite the necessary criticisms, it remains an important milestone, and may still serve as a source of inspiration for modern anarchism.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/18/who-needs-proudhon/

17/01/2025

Heathrow spray-painters were denied defence of necessity, while weapons facility invaders are being treated as ‘terrorists’
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/17/hung-jury-for-climate-activists-elbit-protesters-to-plead-not-guilty/