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Livestreaming now: The Freedom anarchist News Review! Tonight we focus on week one of a chaotic Iran bombardment, critiquing US imperialism, UK tailcoating, the left's response and whatever else comes to mind ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw6Q...
05.03.2026 19:34 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
No prizes for guessing our main topic tonight, after several days of Israel and the US bombing Iran to smithereens Mike, Andy and Simon will talk war, empire and the incoherence of mainstream political discourse about both.
Catch us 7.30pm GMT at www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...
Neurodiversity beyond the social model
Comment, Mar 5th
Neurodivergent liberation means changing the foundations, dismantling a system that made our exclusion not just possible but profitable
~ Pablo ~
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Rojava: “The solution is the decentralisation of power”
Features, Mar 4th
Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus
~ Robert Krieg, Graswurzelrevolution ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/04/r...
Léo Malet: A fascination with illegalism
Art & Anarchy, Mar 3rd
The Parisian crime writer who died 30 years ago was a lifelong anarchist and remains popular to this day
~ Maurice Schuhman ~
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Peter Gelderloos on Iran attack
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UK is culpable in Iran attack, whatever Starmer says
Analysis, Mar 2nd
It’s hard to expect a nation which reveres official secrecy and popular self-delusion to admit to evil in real time
~ punkacademic ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/02/u...
Radical Reprint: Iran and the empires
Features, Mar 1st
A British- and American-sponsored coup in Iran caused widespread bloodshed in 1953 — then, as now, states are aggressors and people are victims
~ punkacademic ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/01/r...
Tonight at 7.30pm: The Freedom Anarchist News Review!
Mike and job will have a chat about the ramifications of the by-election, the prospects of war in Iran and UK involvement, Labour continuing its assault on the disabled, Spycops and roads protest, plus more!
www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...
Costa Rica: Narco-fascism in power
World, Feb 26th
Populist right government with cartel links re-elected amid surge in homicides
~ Semillas collective ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/26/c...
SEND reforms: Cuts and culture wars
Analysis, Feb 25th
Reducing SEND provision is part of a wider fight against the disabled and the young
~ punkacademic ~
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Killing of neo-Nazi in Lyon: “Antifascism is now being exploited”
News, Feb 23rd
The death of Quentin Deranque is being used as a pretext for equating fascism and antifascism
~ Rozenn Le Carboulec, Basta! ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/23/k...
Road protests infiltration: More questions than answers
Comment, Feb 23rd
Watching spycop Jim Boyling at the public inquiry, I felt like he had actually always held us in contempt
~ Helen Beynon ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/23/r...
Headline: Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct Highlighted sentence: The Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, criticised the approach as “automated suspicion”
Fuck Palantir and its ongoing campaign to create the torture nexus, but also ... REALLY. YOU'RE NOT ON BOARD WITH AUTOMATIC SUSPICION THEN LADS? PLEASE, DO GO ON.
22.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Go film the police
Features, Feb 22nd
One of the reasons for photographing and filming at protests is to document police brutality when it predictably comes
~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/22/g...
Jules Durand: Anarchist docker of Le Havre
Features, Feb 20th
Marking a century since the death of the successful strike organiser and tragic victim of the class judiciary
~ Maurice Schuhmann ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/20/j...
Livestreaming now: our Anarchist News Review! Turns out the Filton activists weren't aggravated, and they're doing better than ex-prince Andrew. Plus unemployment is up, and far-right Italy is getting upset about trains ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbF6...
Livestreaming at 7.30pm tonight: The Freedom Anarchist News Review! Filton 24 members get a good result, the perp formerly known as prince has a birthday horribilis, jobs news looks increasingly bleak, and Italian declare railways disruption a "terror incident."
www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...
The collapse that summons us
Comment, Feb 19th
The imminent crash is not an apocalypse, but a birth laden with immense possibility
~ Liberto Herrera, A.N.A. ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/19/t...
Freedom seeks contributions to “Black Anarchism” issue
Editorial, Feb 18th
We invite essays and reflections, reports on actions and campaigns, personal accounts, and other non-fiction writing
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/18/f...
The ‘terrorism’ trap
Analysis, Feb 18th
Governments are gearing up to define any popular protest as violent and legitimise institutional repression
~ Tiziano Antonelli, Umanità Nova ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/18/t...
Notes from the US: Deliberately abusive
World, Feb 17th
The MAGA/Trump cult’s embrace of white supremacism becomes more blatant almost daily
~ Louis Further ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/17/n...
Remembering Paul Avrich
Features, Feb 16th
Twenty years have passed since the death of historian Paul Avrich on February 16, 2006, yet his influence on the study of American anarchism remains unmatched
~ Tom Goyens ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/16/r...
Argentina: Mass protests against Milei’s anti-labour laws
World, Feb 16th
Hundreds of injuries reported as Senate approves strike restrictions, 12-hour working day
~ Gabriel Fonten ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/16/a...
Palestine Action: A victory we shouldn’t have needed
Analysis, Feb 14th
It’s been a rare good month for the forces of not-enabling-mass-murder, as the proscription of Palestine Action is (for now) ruled out of order
~ Rob Ray ~
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It's amusing you think the reference was actually about your reading list, rather than your general attitude here. On which note, I'll leave you to continue being the sort of person who tries to start an argument with people he doesn't read anyway. Cheerio.
13.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Freedom is what its volunteer writers make it. Sometimes that comes up with stuff I agree with, sometimes it doesn't - if you don't read anything you don't agree with then I imagine your reading list is quite short. All the best. ~Rr
13.02.2026 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
When anti-imperialism is not intersectional
Comment, Feb 11th
As activist bubbles expand, resistance to all oppression is no longer taken for granted by international solidarity groups
~ Alex Cuzzolino ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/11/i...
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
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The resolve to leave this cage
Features, Feb 13th
Iranian poet and film-maker Forough Farrokhzad articulated female subjectivity, desire and dissent
~ Bleart Thaçi ~
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