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Britain's oldest anarchist publication and bookshop, founded in 1886. Occasionally disreputable. freedomnews.org.uk for news, freedompress.org.uk for books editor@ or shop@freedompress.org.uk to contact linktr.ee/f_p

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 10h

No News Review tonight I'm afraid due to a round of the sniffles, hopefully back in action soon!

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

France rocked by massive public sector and student strikes Firefighters, teachers, and healthcare workers joined the fray, citing frozen salaries and crumbling public services Redacción Sindicalismo freedompress.org.uk/2026/09/30/f...

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France rocked by massive public sector and student strikes - Freedom Press

Firefighters, teachers, and healthcare workers joined the fray, citing frozen salaries and crumbling public services

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Playtime politics Conformity is so efficient that even when a kid is fresh out of the womb, they are bombarded with their roles in the system Ahmet Rüzgar Baltaci freedompress.org.uk/2026/09/29/p...

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Playtime politics - Freedom Press

Conformity is so efficient that even when a kid is fresh out of the womb, they are bombarded with their roles in the system

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Germany: School strike and strategic blockade against military service News, Sep 28th Neo-Nazism is surging at the ballot box and the government is preparing for war, yet the youth have not had the last word ~ Contre-Attaque ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/28/g...

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Germany: School strike and strategic blockade against military service - Freedom News

Surge of anti-militarism in Germany: School strike in 100 cities, arms-exports blockade of rail line to Hamburg port

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

140 years young—anarchism’s oldest press Editorial, Sep 27th The editorial from our bumper anniversary issue, now in print ~ Freedom News ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/27/1...

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140 years young—anarchism's oldest press - Freedom News

The editorial from our bumper anniversary issue, now in print ~ Freedom News ~ We’ve had a big anniversaries year in 2026.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

RIP Barry Pateman

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Streaming now: The Freedom Anarchist News Review! Andy and Simon are talking about Daniel Thomas’s ill-fated fight with a boat, Tom Watson joining Palantir, unsuppressed climate reports, and of course, Anarchist Christmas (aka the London Anarchist Bookfair). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igc6...

Anarchist News Review: Danny Tommo vs dinghy, plus the London Bookfair!

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy and Simon will be back in just under an hour to talk about fascist vs dinghy, Tom Watson joining Palantir, suppressed climate reports, and of course, Anarchist Christmas (aka the London Anarchist Bookfair). Watch us 7.30pm on www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Summer of Ludd Analysis, Sep 24th Any initiative, vital or virtual, which helps build relationships should be considered, but only if we have autonomous control of the medium ~ Wren @lbion ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/24/s...

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Summer of Ludd - Freedom News

Any initiative, vital or virtual, which helps build relationships should be considered, but only if we have autonomous control of the medium

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thamesmead residents wrap up Dashwood Social Club occupation News, Sep 23rd Building in south-east London was held for a year, taking action against privatisation and loss of community spaces ~ Gertrude Springer ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/23/t...

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Thamesmead residents wrap up Dashwood Social Club occupation - Freedom News

Building in south-east London was held for a year, taking action against privatisation and loss of community spaces ~ Gertrude Springer ~ Housing R…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kropotkin’s lifeboats: Mutual aid VS welfare chauvinism Analysis, Sep 21st The RNLI’s cosmopolitan philosophy undermines a cornerstone of the far right’s worldview ~ Roderick McMillan ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/21/k...

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Kropotkin’s lifeboats: Mutual aid VS welfare chauvinism - Freedom News

The RNLI’s cosmopolitan philosophy undermines a cornerstone of the far right’s worldview ~ Roderick McMillan ~ Royal.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Papuan traditions and Empire’s mess Models of indigenous governance challenge Western and Indonesian subjugation ~ Julian McKinlay King ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/20/p...

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Papuan traditions and Empire’s mess - Freedom News

Models of indigenous governance challenge Western and Indonesian subjugation ~ Julian McKinlay King ~ On the periphery of globalisation, media inte…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Greek prisoners release: Selective US condemnation is telling Two long-term prisoners were released in Greece this week: a leader of a prominent neo-nazi organisation and an anarchist — only one of the two was singled out by the US ambassador ~ Neil Middleton ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/19/g...

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Greek prisoners release: Selective US condemnation is telling - Freedom News

Two long-term prisoners were released in Greece this week: a leader of a prominent neo-nazi organisation and an anarchist.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Streaming now: The Anarchist News Review! Graffiti guy gets acquitted, Balaclavas get a ban in Nottingham, Reform's Patriotic Platform links, AI DOOM HYPE and lackluster climate Burnhamism ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tync...

Anarchist News Review: Churchill vandalism case win, and thoughts on masked fash

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Coming up at 7.30pm: The Anarchist News Review! It's good news for pigeons as a jury throws out Churchill statue vandalism case, we're all *tremendously* shocked that Reform councillors are in Patriotic Platform group socials, and more! Sub at www.youtube.com/@freedomnews... and see you in a bit!

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Book Review: Animal Nightlife Features, Sep 16th A troupe of shape‑shifting “Multiples” – birds, lions, and rats hidden in plain sight – navigate London’s immigrant underworld while the planet spirals toward climate and geopolitical collapse ~ China Bialos ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/16/b...

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Book Review: Animal Nightlife - Freedom News

A troupe of shape‑shifting “Multiples” – birds, lions, and rats hidden in plain sight – navigate London’s immigrant underworld while th…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Creating the conditions for anarchy Comment, Sep 15th The road to liberation is long and arduous, but it can be taken step by step through education, non‑violent direct action, and a collective commitment to human flourishing ~ E ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/15/c...

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Creating the conditions for anarchy - Freedom News

The road to liberation is long and arduous, but it can be taken step by step through education, non‑violent direct action, and a collective commi…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Notes from the US: Overtly racist methods Analysis, Sep 14th The Trump administration’s destruction of lives, health and the environment is being promoted with sadistic bad faith ~ Louis Further ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/14/n...

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Notes from the US: Overtly racist methods - Freedom News

The Trump administration’s destruction of lives, health and the environment is being promoted with sadistic bad faith ~ Louis Further ~ Kidna…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

France: ‘We don’t want a fasho here!’ News, Sep 13th Seven defendants go to court in Montpellier: six fascists and an activist who defended their victim ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/13/f...

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France: ‘We don’t want a fasho here!’ - Freedom News

Seven defendants go to court in Montpellier: six fascists and an activist who defended their victim ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ Sébastian was enjoy…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's nothing quite so pathetic as watching transphobes pretending they're victims while not facing any real consequences for the callous, hateful bullshit they promote, which itself does have real consequences for trans people and progressives. Solidarity with Glasgow's Category Is Books >

Picture of the Proclaimers and vandalised bookshop, with text: This week in transphobia, The right wing press falls over itself calling the
Proclaimers brave for having a public whinge about trans people in a
major newspaper while flogging their latest album. Nothing happens to them apart from some critical comment online.

Meanwhile, a bookshop in Glasgow is getting its windows smashed for showing solidarity with the trans people they’re whining about.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Digital connection, Disability and techno-fascism Comment, Sep 12th It was never technology itself that we hated, but simply capitalism – and its inevitable enshittification of the web ~ Jay Baker ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/12/d...

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Digital connection, Disability and techno-fascism - Freedom News

It was never technology itself that we hated, but simply capitalism – and its inevitable enshittification of the web ~ Jay Baker ~ It is likely f…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Feminists confront London’s March for Life News, Sep 10th Campaigners disrupt anti-abortion Mass and warn of growing US Christian-right influence in Britain. ~ Blade Runner ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/10/f...

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Feminists confront London's March for Life - Freedom News

Campaigners disrupt anti-abortion Mass and warn of growing US Christian-right influence in Britain.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just a quick one to note no News Review this week as everyone's in various stages of "not about" but see you next!

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gerrard Winstanley: “To make the Earth a Common Treasury” Features, Sep 10th Marking 350 years since the death of the English revolutionary Digger (1609-1676) ~ Robert Graham, Illustrations: Clifford Harper ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/10/g...

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Gerrard Winstanley: "To make the Earth a Common Treasury" - Freedom News

Marking 350 years since the death of the English revolutionary Digger (1609-1676) ~ Robert Graham, Illustrations: Clifford Harper ~ During the pe…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Autistici/Inventati: “We need 1,000 more infrastructures of dissent to be born” News, Sep 9th Interview with the Italian digital collective, de-banked and shut down after US “terrorist” designation ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/09/a...

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Autistici/Inventati: "We need 1,000 more infrastructures of dissent to be born" - Freedom News

Interview with the Italian digital collective, de-banked and shut down after US “terrorist” designation ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ On the 26 Au…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seeing this latest from Patriot Platform, with Thomas promising to pay masked paramilitaries day rates for attendance while cops stand impassively a few feet away, I'm seriously wondering if the left should start using "patriot" in group names when taking direct action. Incredible.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Climate activists confront data centres News, Sep 9th The surge of AI‑powered data centres is straining the electric grid, draining water supplies, and forcing a new wave of climate‑justice activism ~ Joel Sucher ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/09/c...

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Climate activists confront data centres - Freedom News

The surge of AI‑powered data centres is straining the electric grid, draining water supplies, and forcing a new wave of climate‑justice activis…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Right Stuff News, Sep 7th The Dover blockade temporarily succeeded in its aim of grabbing headlines, causing local and national economic damage, and intimidating, indeed terrorising ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/07/t...

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The Right Stuff - Freedom News

The Dover blockade temporarily succeeded in its aim of grabbing headlines, causing local and national economic damage, and intimidating, indeed ter…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Twenty-five years of the ‘forever war’ Features, Sep 6th Radical Reprint: As American bombs rain down once again in the Middle East, we look back twenty-five years to a prescient warning ~ punkacademic~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/06/t...

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Twenty-five years of the ‘forever war’ - Freedom News

Radical Reprint: As American bombs rain down once again in the Middle East, we look back twenty-five years to a prescient warning ~ punkacademic~ T…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Last time climate activists blocked a major road (JSO, 2022) it turned into a press panic. People got sent down for years. The right, of course, was overjoyed, while we warned it was a deeply repressive escalation of enforcement. I wonder what the line will be if they apply the same rules here? -Rr

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Livestreaming now: The Freedom Anarchist News Review! There's Bond Market troubles for Burnham as his promises evaporate, Restore is joining Reform in being inundated by tech bro cash, and Just Stop Oil is blocking roads like it's the early 2020s ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=eodv...

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They're baaaack ... as are we, for this week's Anarchist News Review, 7.30pm! There's Bond Market troubles for Burnham as his promises deteriorate, Restore is getting crypto-cash, Just Stop Oil is blocking roads like it's the early 2020s ... subscribe at www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Operation Vital Reality Comment, Sep 3rd Confessions of a Communard: I will be ditching social media in favour of engaging directly with real human beings ~ Wren @lbion ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/03/o...

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Operation Vital Reality - Freedom News

Confessions of a Communard: I will be ditching social media in favour of engaging directly with real human beings

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Autumn's UK bookfairs September 6th: London R September 26th: London October 17th: Peterborough October 17th: Cardiff October 24th: Bristol October 31st: Manchester and Salford November 7th: Swansea November 14th: Dorset November 22nd: Belfast Full details freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/01/u...

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Upcoming anarchist bookfairs - Freedom News

Autumn’s appointments from the 2026 Freedom bookfairs list ~ Freedom News ~ If you have a hankering to find out more about anarchism, dabble …

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Translation: The Tories will do more aggressive neoliberalism, which manifestly doesn't work, but Britain's already sold everything off, has no other ideas and is completely dominated by what "the Markets" think. Economically Britain is less a democracy than a vassal in a suit.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Due to a combination of absences and headaches we're ditching the Anarchist News Review for this week but never fear, oh hordes of anarcho listeners, it'll be back next week!

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just saw from @liverpoolsolfed.bsky.social that Ron Marsden has passed away aged 79. There can be few people who were so resolutely committed to promoting anarcho-syndicalist ideas in Britain in recent decades, in many ways he was The memory of that wing of the movement. >

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Andy Burnham wants to cut electrcity prices he won't be doing so by adding more capacity unless he simultaneously blocks AI data centres from immediately swallowing it. A single facility planned in Devon, for example, is projected to use 1.5GW. Hinckley C nuclear plant will produce 3.26GW.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Earth First! UK gathering occupies grouse moor News, Aug 21st Camping on the edge of Moscar Moor to oppose grouse shooting and peatland destruction, the event was filled with special moments and possibilities in action ~ Helen Beynon ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/08/21/e...

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Earth First! UK gathering occupies grouse moor - Freedom News

Camping on the edge of Moscar Moor at the opening of grouse season, the event was filled with special moments and possibilities in action

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Andy and Simon are talking about the fantastic freeing of Filton, rain on the plains (while water companies dump sewage), Burnham's rough sleeping drive, the media and Jason Arday, plus some megalomaniac shooting his mouth off about Iran ...

Anarchist News Review: Love juries, hate water companies

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Catch the Anarchist News Review at 7.30pm, where we're talking about the fantastic freeing of Filton, rain on the plains, Burnham's rough sleeping drive, Jason Arday, and more ... www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Phenomenal result! And it suggests the government – now under Andy Burnham who is doing nothing to remedy the situation – is making a rod for its own back by tying these cases to terrorism sentencing.

Victory as prosecution fail to secure a conviction against those present at Filton25 trial 2

London — Once again, a jury of their peers was unable to convict any of the latest pro Palestine activists who acted on their conscience to save lives. During the trial, the Judge also dismissed the ...

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"The Trump/MAGA cult continues to make the threat of ‘commies’ and Muslims its main response to polling suggesting that they’re becoming ever more unpopular." Catch up with the US roundup from longrunning columnist Louis Further

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Notes from the US: Slaughter and wreckage - Freedom News

As Trump’s popularity plummets, a push to emphasise disinformation heralds MAGA’s attempt to subvert the midterm elections ~ Louis Furt…

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In any sane world, a man being driven to his death in a moral panic whipped up by cynical media scumbags trying to turn him into the poster-child for racist assumptions about black people would be a scandal bringing down editors and writers alike. But there will be no shame. No introspection.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're talking water tonight - heatwaves, droughts and whackinng great new AI centres. Plus whether a garbage person is going to become Clacton's next MP, the pogrom in Thetford and more! With Tab, Andy and Simon www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0_N...

Anarchist News Review: We're running out of water

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Terribly sad to report that Andrew Fraser, author of Invisible: A Diary of Rough Sleeping in Britain, has died. Andrew was a lovely guy with a huge heart, who wrote Invisible while sleeping rough round London. When we got the books back from the printer I headed to Barking to bring him a copy >>

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Found in an old book on 19th century East Anglian riots (Bread or Blood, AJ Peacock). The rich have always enjoyed pontificating at poor people about how to save money, on the grounds poor people don't know how to stretch a penny like they do.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

La valle che resiste Aug 10 From Italy’s Susa Valley, motivating impressions of a combative mass movement ~ Sara Dura and Barri Cate ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/08/10/l...

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La valle che resiste - Freedom News

In Italy's Susa Valley, a comrade and I got a very impressive glimpse of what a long-lasting and combative mass movement looks like.

Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What’s in a name? Comment, Aug 5th Confessions of a communard: After a Chinese airline kept misspelling my forename during a trip to Australia, I decided to make the change permanent ~ Wren Albion (the artist formerly known as Warren Draper) ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/08/05/w...

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What’s in a name? - Freedom News

Confessions of a communard: After a Chinese airline kept misspelling my forename during a trip to Australia, I decided to make the change permanent…