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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 8h

Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review! With Starmer threatening to police both how many protests we have and what we can say while doing them, what other Faragist measures might there be on the Labour Party docket for 2025?

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Anarchist News Review: Labour hammers protest and the Tories hammer each other

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 11h

Protesters halted traffic entering the River Don site, standing in front of the gates with banners, chants and speeches denouncing the company’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, and continued turning cars and lorries away until 8am.
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Protesters blockade Sheffield weapons factory in national day of action against the F-35 - Freedom News

Stop Arming Israel targets Forged Solutions over role in supplying fighter jets used in Gaza ~ Scott Harris ~ Sheffield-based protest group Stop Ar…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 11h

Since 2024 Palantir has supplied Israel with AI software which scrapes data gathered from the surveillance of Palestinians and places them in AI driven ‘kill chains’, further muddying the lines of accountability.
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Paint action against Palantir in London - Freedom News

Surveillance company targeted for role in Gaza genocide ~ Scott Harris ~ Shut The System says its activists this morning destroyed entrances, glass…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 12h

Since the election, anarchists and radical left organisations formed coalitions around common struggles. In 2025 anarchists have made attempts to resume the anti-government protests however, but have failed to reach beyond anarchist and radical left circles.
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Finland: Struggles against the right-wing government - Freedom News

Two years of anti-government protests raise questions about organising around collective struggles ~ Antti Rautiainen ~ The current government of F…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 13h

Coming up at 7.30pm tonight, the Anarchist News Review! We'll be talking about tail-end Toryism, Labour's apparent inability to stop behaving like the far-right it claims to be defending us against, and some of the stories Freedom News has covered this week. Follow us:

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Netpol @netpol.org · 20h

Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 1d

One of the biggest information gathering projects was called Belarusian Hajun, a Telegram channel with a bot to where people could send pictures. The project exploded, with over 30,000 information points sent in the first 45 days of the invasion.
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Belarus's informational partisans - Freedom News

Civilians face repression for sharing Russian troop movements ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ In September 2025, opposition media in Belarus estimated that one …

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 2d

When Todorov returned to Bulgaria, he participated in the first self-organised community space in the country—whose activists in 2013 managed to provoke a daily public assembly at the Eagles Bridge in the heart of Sofia.
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Val Todorov (1963-2025) - Freedom News

A political activist and award-winning science fiction author, he was also a visionary of alternatives to capitalism ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ Valentin To…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 2d

We are witnessing one of the most serious disasters in the world. We’re talking about 80% of hospitals that are out of service. Half the population displaced, 90% suffering from hunger today in war zones"
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War and Extractivism - a view from Sudan and Congo - Freedom News

Two activists from Sudfa (a media outlet founded by Sudanese exiles in France) and Génération Lumière (a decolonial ecology association founded …

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 3d

"If you’re absent from social and political struggles, people turn elsewhere. If you don’t represent a credible alternative to parties and the State, people look elsewhere for solutions. We must be on the front line of the social and class war every day.”
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Interview with Rouvikonas - Freedom News

During a summer break in the south, Freedom grabbed the opportunity to interview the Anarchist Collective Rouvikonas in Athens ~ Blade Runner ~ The…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 3d

Glad Labour's in charge to defend us against the far-right tendency to ban opposition and continually extend police powers repressing dissent. Can you imagine if Reform got in and used right-wing media shouting as an excuse to criminalise "repeated protests" it didn't like? Bullet dodged there ...

News headline: Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 5d

Having an excessive number of officers at SCs leads to boredom amongst them, and some begin to antagonise, provoke, and abuse those supposedly under their care.
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Incompetence and corruption cause England’s torture units to degrade further - Freedom News

Prison bosses incessantly argue for harsher conditions—then cry over the lack of safe systems of work ~ Kevan Thakrar ~ On Saturday, 12 April…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 6d

The current status of the flotilla’s participants remains unclear, with communications cut off and no confirmation of where detainees have been taken. Israeli military sources released footage claiming to show detained activists receiving “humanitarian care”.
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Global rage as Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla - Freedom News

In several cities the protests were described as some of the largest since the war on Gaza began ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Protests erupted worldwide last…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 6d

The current status of the flotilla’s participants remains unclear, with communications cut off and no confirmation of where detainees have been taken. Israeli military sources released footage claiming to show detained activists receiving “humanitarian care”.
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Global rage as Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla - Freedom News

In several cities the protests were described as some of the largest since the war on Gaza began ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Protests erupted worldwide last…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 7d

Livestreaming now, the Anarchist Review! All eyes are on the flotilla tonight, surrounded 70 miles offshore by IDF forces. At home Farage casts Starmer as a darling of the radical left, while Sir Keir kicks off another ID card attempt and Tories attack the ECHR ...

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Anarchist Review: The Gaza flotilla is surrounded, while at home Labour bickers and dithers ...

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 7d

Livestreaming at 7.30pm, the Anarchist News Review! Was Starmer saying some negative things about Farage the nod we were all waiting for to begin the revolution? Is a centrist citzens database less Orwellian? Do we really need human rights laws anyway? Find out later!

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Keir Starmer supwrimposed on Lenin with the question: Is it time, comrade?

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 7d

The campaign is especially relevant after Starmer and Trump announced plans to open the UK to US tech corporations—widely seen as vulture capitalism. Companies are being promised reliable nuclear power for their data servers in post-industrial “sacrifice zones”.
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No to nuclear in the Llynfi valley - Freedom News

Community campaign resists reactors built for data centres ~ CCC Team ~ Climate Camp Cymru supported the No Nuclear Llynfi campaign in the Llynfi v…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 8d

Oh 100% just saying it. Hence the line about him copying talking points.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 8d

Nigel Toadface thinks the radical left has been waiting for permission from Keir St ... *double checks notes* ... no, that is right, Keir Starmer. To physically attack Reform candiadates.

Starmer. Seriously is there any weird US talking point which that rubberfaced toff won't shamelessly ape?

Text: the Reform UK leader claimed that Starmer saying Reform policies were racist was “inciting and encouraging” the radical left to take action against Reform officials, supporters, voters and sympathisers.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 8d

The Flaskô workers faced not only state repression, but also threats from mercenaries and militias. They fought almost alone, with only minor support from a small militant group, in one of the most dangerous metropolitan areas in Brazil.
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The Flaskô Question - Freedom News

Fourteen years of worker control in Brazil’s only occupied factory ~ Matheus Fonseca ~ The Flaskô plastic barrel factory was the only workplace …

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 8d

Sure, I was remarking on the hypocrisy not suggesting Watson is particularly working class.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 8d

Emma Watson's naively hopeful, very generous letter to bigoted auntie Rowling:

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Billionaire J K Rowling's poisonous transphobic drivel accusing Emma Watson of being overprivileged:

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 9d

In London, activists daubed graffiti and threw paint across the home of Barclays CEO Vimlesh Maru, after sending spoof invitations to neighbours for a “cocktail party” highlighting the bank’s role in “genocide and climate collapse”.
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Barclays targeted in five countries - Freedom News

Paint and glue attacks cap 200 actions during ‘Summer of Sabotage’ by shut The System and allies’ ~ Scott Harris ~ Shut the Syste…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 10d

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 10d

Your quick reminder that we're on the lookout for articles to put in the winter issue of our bi-annual journal, deadline's October 4th! We're on the 'watching them watching us' brief this time, so looking at surveillance both by them and us, power grabs against civil liberties, and all that jazz ...

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