Freedom Press
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Britain's oldest anarchist publication and bookshop, founded in 1886. Occasionally disreputable.
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https://linktr.ee/f_p
Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review! We're talking about the Budget, the first Filton trials, how anti-fascism is "terrorism" now and Jonny Harmsworth's Telegraph takeover ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEk...
Anarchist News Review: What's our thoughts on the Budget?
YouTube video by Freedom
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November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review! We're talking about the Budget, the first Filton trials, how anti-fascism is "terrorism" now and Jonny Harmsworth's Telegraph takeover ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEk...
New - COPS report on spycops inquiry's questioning of Lois Austin, socialist & activist with Youth Against Racism in Europe in the 1990s,
CW: graphic descriptions of sevwre police violence and misogynist abuse.
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/11/26/u...
CW: graphic descriptions of sevwre police violence and misogynist abuse.
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/11/26/u...
UCPI Daily Report, 14 Nov 2025: Lois Austin evidence - Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance
Lois austin of Youth Against Racism in Europe is questioned by the Undercover Policing Inquiry and exposes the spycops' lies.
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New - COPS report on spycops inquiry's questioning of Lois Austin, socialist & activist with Youth Against Racism in Europe in the 1990s,
CW: graphic descriptions of sevwre police violence and misogynist abuse.
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/11/26/u...
CW: graphic descriptions of sevwre police violence and misogynist abuse.
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/11/26/u...
From Santiago to Rome to Dhaka, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was marked by grief, anger and demands for accountability from the institutions that enable femicide and domestic abuse.
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In pictures: 25 November against femicide - Freedom News
Thousands mobilised worldwide to confront the institutions enabling gendered violence ~ Cristina Sykes ~ From Santiago to Rome to Dhaka, the Intern…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
From Santiago to Rome to Dhaka, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was marked by grief, anger and demands for accountability from the institutions that enable femicide and domestic abuse.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/26/i...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/26/i...
Tonight 7.30pm, it's our Anarchist News Review! Obviously the Budget is on the agenda, but we also have an update on the Filton 24 trial with discussion of plans to cut juries from the justice system, the Mail's purchase of the Telegraph, and transatlantic antifa panics
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Tonight 7.30pm, it's our Anarchist News Review! Obviously the Budget is on the agenda, but we also have an update on the Filton 24 trial with discussion of plans to cut juries from the justice system, the Mail's purchase of the Telegraph, and transatlantic antifa panics
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
The spark ignited after months of breaches of contract: ignored professional categories, illegal cuts in vacation pay, imposed work schedules, and a progressive erosion of rights.
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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/25/g...
GAZC Seville strike enters 50th day - Freedom News
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November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The spark ignited after months of breaches of contract: ignored professional categories, illegal cuts in vacation pay, imposed work schedules, and a progressive erosion of rights.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/25/g...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/25/g...
Perhaps intentionally missing the point that Antifa-East also does not exist as an organisation, the State Department is in fact referring to the political repression of autonomous anti-fascists in Hungary and Germany
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/24/t...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/24/t...
'Terror' as a strategy of tension - Freedom News
US designation aims to network anti-fascist trials in Germany and Hungary by criminal association ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ US President Donald Tr…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Perhaps intentionally missing the point that Antifa-East also does not exist as an organisation, the State Department is in fact referring to the political repression of autonomous anti-fascists in Hungary and Germany
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/24/t...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/24/t...
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7es8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7es8...
Anarchist News Review: Asylum abomination and Pally hunger strike
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November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7es8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7es8...
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’
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/r...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/r...
Remembering Joe Hill - Freedom News
The legendary Wobbly and songwriter, executed 110 years ago, was celebrated worldwide for his resilience and humour ~ Owen Clayton ~ Born Joseph Em…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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’
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/r...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/r...
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
www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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
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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/l...
Labour rolls out the full fash playlist - Freedom News
Far-right glee tells you all you need to know about the government’s asylum plans ~ punkacademic ~ Plans announced by the Home Secretary Shabana …
freedomnews.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/l...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/l...
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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/18/a...
A left that carries the state inside it - Freedom News
Maoist assault on Athens anarchists exposed a hierarchical political culture shaped by patriarchal command habits ~ Blade Runner ~ Thousands took …
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November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/18/a...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/18/a...
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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/18/t...
Tino Brugos (1958–2025) - Freedom News
The internationalist militant and educator was also a pioneer of LGBT+ organising ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Tino Brugos, a committed trade unionist, educa…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/18/t...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/18/t...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/a...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/a...
Antifascists humiliate "Bristol Patriots" - Freedom News
Policing was highly political, focusing almost entirely on containing opposition to the far right ~ Scott Harris ~ Saturday 15 November saw another…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/a...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/a...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/i...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/i...
Italian anarchist joins UK prison hunger strike - Freedom News
Solidarity action links Sanremo with UK detainees held on remand over Palestine Action cases ~ Blade Runner ~ Italian anarchist prisoner Luca Dolce…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/i...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/i...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/14/n...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/14/n...
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…
freedomnews.org.uk
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/14/n...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/14/n...
"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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/13/a...
"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."
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/13/a...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/13/a...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/12/c...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/12/c...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/12/c...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/12/c...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/11/h...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/11/h...
“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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/y...
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…
freedomnews.org.uk
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”.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/y...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/y...
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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
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…
freedomnews.org.uk
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/09/m...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/09/m...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/09/m...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/09/m...
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...
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/n...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/n...
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…
freedomnews.org.uk
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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freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/c...
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 …
freedomnews.org.uk
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.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/c...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/c...
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
YouTube video by Freedom
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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...