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Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review! Tonight we're talking Labour's asylum abomination, the Pally Action hunger strike, mountains of waste in Oxfordshire, the recent Bristol "Patriots" March, and Maoist violence against Athens anarchists.
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Hill and fellow wobblies began using street music to combat the Salvation Army bands that deliberately tried to drown out IWW speakers. It was a pivotal moment for the IWW, which has ever afterwards been known as a ‘singing union’
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Catch up with us at 7.30pm for the Anarchist News Review! We'll be talking about Labour's asylum abomination, the Pally Action hunger strike, mountains of waste in Oxfordshire, the recent Bristol "Patriots" March, and Maoist violence against Athens anarchists.
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
Jewellery can be confiscated from refugees to pay for processing them, as one minister gleefully told the press—seemingly blissfully unaware of the horrific echoes such a despicable policy conjures up.
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On 15 November around 150 members of the Maoist group ARAS launched a vicious attack on Athens anarchists at the on Polytechnic campus and left more than a dozen hospitalised with concussions, broken bones, and severe head injuries.
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He helped open LGBT+ spaces where visibility still carried personal risk, was active in feminist, ecological and labour struggles, and participated in solidarity campaigns with Kurdistan, Palestine and the Western Sahara.
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Police reported one police officer going to hospital for minor injuries from a scuffle, but did not mentioning a number of significant injuries – including head injuries – to anti-fascist activists from the blows of police batons.
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The British hunger strikers, held on remand for alleged offences linked to Palestine Action and all without conviction, say they will refuse food until Elbit Systems shuts its UK sites.
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It would be nice if demonstrations like No Kings did more than induce feelings of solidarity amongst those attending. But criticism of MAGA/Trump remains too ‘soft’ and disparate to make much impact, and lacks awareness of the import of this fascist resurgence.
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"With the certainty that punitive measures are not the way, we will continue to chip away at the bars of every prison until all our sisters are free. We will keep fighting to laugh, to celebrate, to feel pleasure."
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Given the Bolsonaro disaster, the change in administration brought with it the mistaken idea that the Brazilian state would be an ally of the rest of humanity in the fight against the socio-environmental collapse we witness daily. It is not.
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Deportation procedures for people in transit is a topic soon to reach the European Parliament under the forthcoming Return Regulation. While Europe’s far-right rallies behind the slogan “remigration,” Italy is once again the pioneer in an authoritarian experiment.
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“He says immigration has stolen the youth’s future”, said a student, “You know what stole our future? The climate crisis, the greed of billionaires, landlords and politicians who would rather have us stab our neighbours”.
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The BBC—despite its best efforts—simply couldn’t give the technofascists enough of what they wanted. Too much fascism in institutions will never be enough for those they are trying to appease.
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Here as elsewhere, the brave first attempt to do a hybrid workshop led to much tech drama, but a last-minute workaround saved the day.
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The social enemy is the one who can be eliminated without punishment. More than that, whose attempt at self-defence must always trigger their own death. The place occupied by those who are labelled as non-human is what the designation of ‘terrorist’ should produce.
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Even honest progressive candidates are entangled with positions of authority and pressured from all sides by elites and bureaucrats. Sooner or later, Mamdani’s supporters will be disappointed when he fails to deliver on his (moderately) socialist promises.
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While last year the perpetrators were identified as being part of organised crime, in 2025 the main aggressors are unknown actors and state actors.
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Livestreaming now: The Freedom Anarchist News Review! Amid a chorus of joy at the election of a self-described socialist in New York, anarchists must sound a dischordant note. "Regional Rebel Politician" is no substitute for class mobilistion - just ask Reform UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbvR...
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Mamdani has won - but are there lessons for him in Reform UK's local council experiences? Join our livestream at 7.30pm tonight for an explanation of what on Earth that might mean!
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Times headline: Take down Union Jacks, says Reform. Kent County Council said that the flags had to come down because they posed a safety risk.
In potentially one of the greatest ironies of modern times, thanks to lighting contractors not being covered for taking down flags it may be the case that Kent's festive bulbs won't go up this year. Meaning Christmas might be inadvertently cancelled. By "patriots".
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This is a fascinating narrative of Japanese class differences, poverty and middle-class pretension, the rigidly hierarchical Emperor System, and how it all intertwined to crush the yearnings and desires of a clearly intelligent child and young woman
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"Spawn of XR's simultaneous smashies" was voted down as unpronounceable. The groups said offices were defaced in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, and Birmingham.
(Photos from Paris)
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To support Sudanese comrades opencollective.com/support-suda...
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After the military retook power, many Sudanese anarchists were arrested, killed or forced underground. Others continued their work in secret: translating anarchist texts, running communal kitchens, and assisting displaced families and local defence groups.
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Across the world it is the same story ---yet the solutions can be found locally in our neighbourhoods as we resist evictions and intimidation. This dynamic between international and local is known as the Interkiezionale.
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From its inception, the OCN played a decisive role in the struggle for land. During the final years of the dictatorship and early years of transition to liberal democracy, it led the first peasant occupations and supported the emergence of numerous settlements.
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At least three companies each hold more nominal wealth than the entire GDP of Britain ($3.6 trillion). One, NVIDIA, just passed $5 trillion. Almost all the firms in the trillion dollar club are tech companies. Hell of a bubble ...
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Tune in at 7.30pm tonight for the Freedom Anarchist News Review! We'll be discussing NVIDIA and the first $5 trillion company valuation, Amazon's mass layoffs, the state of the left parties and danger of false dawns, and all the stories Freedom's reporting this week.
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The posters were inspired by the police’s official “110% Berlin” campaign, with statements like: “Deportation to a war zone? Gladly! 110% violence” and “Racism? Let’s deport! 110% goodbye.”
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