FREEDOM NEWS

JUNE 18. 2025

Anti-militarists claim arson of Amazon and Deutsche Telekom vehicles

Amazon targeted for complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide, Telekom for cooperation with the German military and Elon Musk’s Starlink—communiqé ~ Juju Alerta ~ An anti-militarist group has claimed responsibility for setting fire to a total of 35 commercial vehicles from Amazon and Deutsche Telekom in Berlin in the early hours of Tuesday. The Amazon vans

JUNE 17. 2025

Breaking the siege on Gaza

Israel’s interception of the Madleen and Egypt’s crackdown on thousands marching to Rafah will not stop resistance to systematic starvation ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ During last week more than 4,000 people gathered in Cairo to march together by foot to Gaza, demanding the immediate entry of the trucks of humanitarian aid waiting at the

JUNE 16. 2025

The empire’s death engine strikes again

Israel’s attack on Iran marks the latest phase of global war capitalism—subcontracted settler-colonialism and genocidal thanatopolitics converge, as Western regimes and their enemies arm and threaten with Armageddon ~ Blade Runner ~ The Israeli state has escalated once again, launching war on Iran with a large-scale strike—Operation Rising Lion—which began on June 13, hitting over

JUNE 15. 2025

Red gyms: You’ll get a kick out of this

Following a recent tourney, one member from a participating gym talks about the need for and increasing number of explicitly political self-defence spaces. ~ Anon ~ Give us a bit of context. I’m part of a London red gym that’s been organising regular Muay Thai and self defence sessions for more than two years. Last

JUNE 13. 2025

Scrapping the Vagrancy Act

The criminalisation of homelessness and poverty is not truly ending—only being reshaped ~ Tony ~ On 10 June 2025 the Government confirmed it will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring 2026 , and whilst the news was widely and justifiably welcomed by homelessness charities, we should sound a note

Notes from the US: Reaction and Resistance

As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests against arbitrary and sadistic raids on non-White families—first in Los Angeles and increasingly in other cities across the US—is by and large what you get on the ground. Just

JUNE 12. 2025

Report from Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair

The stalls, workshops, and after-party gig made for an event to be remembered ~ Don B ~ On Saturday the fourth annual Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair was held at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle Upon-Tyne. A strong fixture in the UK anarchist bookfairs calendar, expectations as always were high for

Anarchist Review: LA crackdown, Aid flotilla hijacking and Train sabotage in Russia

There’s cause for optimism in a greater public awareness of how media manipulates reality – but social media is far more insidious … Mike and Simon discuss the blatency of the Trump administration’s provocations in California and the ways in which its followers have justified their support of, often, actions which a few years ago

JUNE 11. 2025

Dockers successfully block arms shipment to Israel

French and Italian dockworkers unite in practical resistance to the Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ David TNnzk ~ On Thursday, 5 June, workers at the port of Marseille unionised with CGT and backed by a solidarity presidium, successfully refused three containers full of military equipment which were scheduled to be loaded onto the Contship Era,

JUNE 10. 2025

Palestine activists target Newcastle BBC, London Leonardo offices

“It is the duty of ordinary citizens to take direct action against the institutions perpetrating the genocide in Gaza”, says group ~ Scott Harris ~ Palestine Action says its activists early this morning targeted the Newcastle offices of the BBC and the London headquarters of weapons manufacturer Leonardo. The BBC offices were covered in symbolic

Not again with the Burqa Ban?

As Reform UK splits over a stale debate, Muslim women’s voices remain conspicuously absent ~ James Horton ~ Many had thought very little about Sarah Pochin upon her tight win in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election on May 1st. They know what they think of her now. Upon her first ever question in PMQs on

JUNE 9. 2025

Russia: Anarchist partisans sabotage the war machine

The trial and sentencing of Ruslan Sidiki has exposed both the terror of an authoritarian state and the power of clandestine direct action ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ At the Ryazan garrison military court, Judge Oleg Shishov on 23 May sentenced Ruslan Sidiki to 29 years of imprisonment for bombing railway tracks leading to the

JUNE 8. 2025

Radical Reprint: Stalin’s ‘left’ turn

With the Second World War coming to its conclusion it naturally left an undignified political scramble in its wake. ~ Rob Ray ~ As summer arrived in June 1945 both the USSR and the Allies, now let off the hook for their wartime alliance, began the long process of competitive propagandising that came to be

JUNE 6. 2025

Starmer’s Big Idea: A militarised, impoverished Britain

The UK Strategic Defence Review will only deliver security for arms comanies—not anyone using a food bank ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Sometimes you do have to love people in Britain—consider the almost universal reaction to the current prime minister announcing that we’re all now on a war footing: Fuck off. These are the people who