Freedom Press
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Britain's oldest anarchist publication and bookshop, founded in 1886. Occasionally disreputable.
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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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Notes from the US: The fascist bathroom - Freedom News
As the rubble threw up dust, Trump refused food aid to as many as 40 million Americans ~ Louis Further ~ With the usual caveat that anarchists atta…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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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"Anticolonial feminism comes to destroy all the pillars of our society" - Freedom News
Anarchist speech at the Berlin rally for free Western Sahara, 7 November ~ Anon ~ Some days exist to remind us of what we continually live through.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"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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COP30 farce in Lula's Brazil - Freedom News
Their idea of ‘sustainable capitalism’ is to sell off the rainforest and build mega-projects ~ Rafael Sanz, desinformemonos ~ COP 30 ha…
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November 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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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Hostages overseas: Italy's frontier-prison in Albania - Freedom News
Inside the Rama-Meloni deal on detention centers in Albania
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November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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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York students rally against racist speaker - Freedom News
Farage’s TikTok channel operator has lauded human rights abuses ~ Scott Harris ~ Over 400 students and staff joined a rally opposing the invi…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“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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BBC's "War on Woke" was never enough for the right - Freedom News
Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed ~ punkac…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
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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Manchester and Salford bookfair: Antifa, Clifford Harper and vegan scarcity - Freedom News
There was excellent organisation and a wide range of visitors ~ Bookfair Review Collective ~ The Manchester and Salford anarchist bookfair took pla…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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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Rio massacre: The politics of extermination - Freedom News
The ‘narcoterrorist’ is fabricated in place of an internal threat, capable of setting the city ablaze ~ Camila Jourdan, LASInTec ~ What…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/07/r...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/07/r...
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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No Gods, No Mayors - Freedom News
Putting “socialist faces in high places” does not break the cycle of violence and injustice ~ Yavor Tarinsky ~ For the city of New York…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/n...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/n...
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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Chiapas: Attacks on human rights defenders and journalists on the rise - Freedom News
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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November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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...
Anarchist News Review: Mandani's win, Reform's travails and JSO jailings
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November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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...
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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November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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!
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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".
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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".
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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Book review: Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman - Freedom News
A principled anarchist who faced death with bravery, Fumiko Kaneko is a model of unwavering defiance in the face of overwhelming odds ~ Jay Arachni…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/05/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/05/b...
"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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(Photos from Paris)
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Elbit insurer Allianz targeted in 8 countries - Freedom News
Company “complicit in the world’s wars and genocides”, say activists ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Groups including Shut the System, Carnage Tot…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"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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(Photos from Paris)
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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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Sudan drowning in blood and hunger - Freedom News
Darfur is engulfed in atrocity, with famine, mass killings and displacement now defining what remains of Sudan’s revolution.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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When they kick at our front door - Freedom News
In Berlin, radical spaces facing capitalist expropriation continue to resist with solidarity and a revolutionary memory ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ …
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October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/31/w...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/31/w...
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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Peasant opposition in Paraguay - Freedom News
The story of the Northern Peasant Organization (OCN) one of of resistance, autonomy, and constant renewal ~ Abel Irala, desinformemos ~ Founded in …
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October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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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Anarchist News Review: NVIDIA and big tech's trillions in congealed capital
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October 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Rv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Rv...
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.
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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.
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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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October 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/29/g...
The protest on school conditions was called by many established parents and teachers' groups, but the police and right-wing press blame the incidents exclusively on the presence of parents who are members of the two local collectives
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Athens: Police tear-gas schoolchildren, blame anarchist parents - Freedom News
Wide coalition of teachers’ and parents’ groups organised protest over school conditions ~ Kit Dimou ~ Six children required medical ca…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The protest on school conditions was called by many established parents and teachers' groups, but the police and right-wing press blame the incidents exclusively on the presence of parents who are members of the two local collectives
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/28/a...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/28/a...
In the wake of mass protests against corruption and inequality, around 900 people are being detained and named as suspects, many of them anarchists or sympathisers, spread across various cities.
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Crackdown in Indonesia, anarchists appeal for solidarity - Freedom News
State blames fabricated “Chaos Star” anarchist network for instigating grassroots uprising ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Anarchists in Indonesia a…
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October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In the wake of mass protests against corruption and inequality, around 900 people are being detained and named as suspects, many of them anarchists or sympathisers, spread across various cities.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/27/c...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/27/c...
Weyman Bennett of SUTR said: “Stop blaming black and Muslim people for society’s problems. Anti-fascism and anti-racism have always beaten you. You’ve seen nothing yet – we’re going to smash every racist, fascist and far-right group”.
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Thousands in Whitechapel as far right rally blocked from borough - Freedom News
Hundreds converged in central London to counter UKIP march “two to one” ~ Anu Shukla ~ Several thousand antifascist locals and supporters gathe…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Weyman Bennett of SUTR said: “Stop blaming black and Muslim people for society’s problems. Anti-fascism and anti-racism have always beaten you. You’ve seen nothing yet – we’re going to smash every racist, fascist and far-right group”.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/27/t...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/27/t...
Commenting on the prospect of the neutron bomb Freedom considered it a tell on the true nature of government that states would seek to develop a weapon that would annihilate people but preserve property.
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Radical Reprint: Against Armageddon - Freedom News
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October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Commenting on the prospect of the neutron bomb Freedom considered it a tell on the true nature of government that states would seek to develop a weapon that would annihilate people but preserve property.
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