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Freedom News is an online anarchist resource for news, comment and activism. Founded in 1886, we moved fully online in 2014 and publish a bi-annual journal. Our mission is to help with increasing the confidence, the autonomy, the initiative, the participation, the equalitarian tendencies and the self-activity of the masses and whatever assists in their demystification. And report on that which..
Freedom News
15h ago
On Wednesday, a meeting about antifascism in Stockholm was attacked by a group of Nazis. The Green and Left parties organised the meeting, and Mattias Wåg, publisher of the anarchist magazine Brand and veteran antifascist, was one of the participants. The Nazi attackers singled him out. He describes what happened in this article, originally published in Aftonbladet a few hours after the attack.
It wasn’t hard to predict that a Nazi attack on the meeting. The local branches of the Left and Green parties had wallpapered the whole of southern Stockholm with posters and handed out fliers, invitin ..read more
Freedom News
22h ago
CW: Child abuse, including rape, violence, and drugs.
The police laughed at her when she reported her sexual abuse. After battling for justice, Laura Hughes tells Freedom how she lost all confidence in UK police and prosecutors.
It has been a year since the monster that abused me was locked up. It had been 27 years since I had escaped him and his shithole home. I had slipped through all the systems in place to protect young people in the mid-nineties, and my school never flagged up my absence when I stopped attending at 13; I was stuck there for over two years. Yet, in 202 ..read more
Freedom News
2d ago
My Port of Beirut
Lamia Ziadé
Translator: Emma Ramadan
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745348124
CW: Graphic descriptions of the aftermath of extreme violence, including in the context of genocide.
I am staring at a watercolour. The soft hues are gentle on my eyes, the blue of the doctor’s scrubs, even the red of the blood that dominates the image.
Like those cardboard shades that dim your vision enough to allow you to look at the sun without averting your eyes, these watercolour renditions of real photographs dilute the impact of the violence and devastation on my senses, and they allow my gaze ..read more
Freedom News
3d ago
Palestine Action again targets a supplier for Israel’s weapons industry. Solvay in Wrexham manufactures components for Elbit’s Hermes 450 drones.
After three activists from Palestine Action were convicted of ‘criminal damage’ worth over £20K against Solvay, the Judge gave them one of the lowest possible sentences possible.
They were only ordered to pay £600 each in court costs and fines, which would go towards the fire service costs during the actions. No compensation costs for Solvay were ordered.
The three activists dubbed the ‘Solvay 3,’ were on trial at Caernarfon Crown C ..read more
Freedom News
4d ago
Translated from Actualité de l’Anarchosyndicalisme.
Content warning: contains accounts of war crimes, including rape.
In the previous issue of Anarchosyndicalisme, the CNT-AIT echoed the call for solidarity from anarchists in Sudan.
Since a terrible war broke out on 15 April 2023 between two military factions – the Rapid Support Forces (or Janjaweed militias) against the official army – civilians have been living in a climate of “pure terror” because of a “ruthless and senseless conflict”, denounced by the UN with general indifference. At least 15,000 people have died, and more than 26,000 h ..read more
Freedom News
4d ago
Four locals were arrested during a blockade of Leicester’s Elbit drone factory, UAV Tactical Systems. Without any substantial basis, the four were arrested for an array of offences, including criminal damage, obstruction of the highway and threatening words or behaviour. Others responded to arrests by blockading the police van with those arrested inside.
UAV Tactical Systems is majority owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm. The factory’s flagship product is the Watchkeeper drone, modelled on Elbit’s Hermes 450 after it was “battle-tested” on the Palesti ..read more
Freedom News
4d ago
Jason de Souza examines the monopolisation of media and its effects.
Examining who owns and thereby controls the mass media is one of the most strident reminders that Western democracy is largely a farce that represents and serves hegemonic interests. It’s hardly a secret that the mass media have long wielded immense power, but their level of influence, control and impact has reached unprecedented levels, and this power is now concentrated in fewer hands than at any other time in modern history. 50 companies held sway over the US media in 1983. By 2006, that figure had fallen to less than 10 ..read more
Freedom News
5d ago
from ItsGoingDown
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse crossed across the continent of North America, with the peak of its totality in Makanda, IL, 15 minutes south of Carbondale, IL. On April 8th, 2024, another total solar eclipse crossed through southern Illinois, with the paths of both eclipses intersecting right in Makanda, IL. On the eve of the first eclipse, a joyous march happened in Carbondale with a banner that read, “This Empire too will be Eclipsed.” After the first eclipse, a small group of earthlings took on a very serious mission to build autonomy between the eclipses in So ..read more
Freedom News
6d ago
The fascist right is obsessed with ways to oppress the LGBTQ+ community. Notes from the US have reported almost every month recently on laws and measures designed “at best” to marginalise LGBTQ+ young people in particular and, at worst, to see them lose their lives.
Last month, the soi-disant progressive daily, The Washington Post, used data provided by the FBI to examine the impact over time of attempts to prevent school pupils from living according to their gender identity. It found that in states where LGBTQ+ rights are now curtailed or have been removed, an average of 90 hate crimes took ..read more
Freedom News
1w ago
Palestine Action and Youth Demand again bring disruption to Central London and the facilitators of genocide:
Palestine Action and Youth Demand have teamed up today to paint the Ministry of Defence headquarters in London while other supporters marched through London. They are demanding an end to the Ministry of Defence’s contracts with Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems and an end to all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK, including revoking oil and gas licences issued since 2021.
Activists from each group sprayed r ..read more