Freedom Press

An independent, radical co-op controlled by its volunteers, Freedom runs Britain’s oldest anarchist press and its largest bookshop.

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https://freedomnews.org.uk/about/

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https://freedomnews.org.uk

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2025-08-13 18:33:06 UTC

Livestreaming now, our Anarchist Review! Yvette Cooper's lumping asylum woes onto councils, corporations are getting a planning rights giveaway, Reform has *another* media gimme from Labour, and the proscription thing's going very, very wrong for the government ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lPMyerTkeU

2025-03-23 09:49:36 UTC

*Anarchism and the New Military Wave (pt.1)*
A few thoughts on where we are as we teeter on the cusp of a decade-defining shift into armed nationalism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/23/anarchism-and-the-new-military-wave-pt-1/
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2025-03-19 19:32:27 UTC

Streaming now: The Freedom Anarchist news Review!
- Unreliable ceasefires and killing kids in Gaza
- More Teslas are on fire, poor Elon
- Labour's attack on PIP
- Major ai-powered CCTV expansion in London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtxBCetuKjk

2025-03-12 19:27:13 UTC

Livestreaming now, the Freedom Anarchist News Review!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l487E4Ue9wA

2025-03-08 19:18:10 UTC

One for International Women's Day: This essay by Susan Hinley considers conceptions of anarchism and feminism at the end of the 19th century, primarily through the eyes of Freedom Press's founder, Charlotte Wilson.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/article/charlotte-wilson-the-woman-question-and-the-meanings-of-anarchist-socialism-in-late-victorian-radicalism/BD2F720B7A1123C6E51D659332F11C28
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2025-03-05 19:29:48 UTC

Livestreaming now, the Freedom Anarchist News Review! With likely topics including:
- Gentrification march in Peckham
- Tesla torchings in France
- Harassment of pro-Palestine voices
- Ocalan calls to disband the PKK
- Europe's 800bn re-militarisation pledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekLrNzxPRU0

2025-02-26 14:28:48 UTC

Coming up at half seven tonight, the Freedom Anarchist News Review! Keep an eye on the usual place:
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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2025-02-19 19:36:09 UTC

Anarchist News Review: Labour adopts Trumpism, direct action at the BBC and climate anti-fascism, live now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF9Bu6MYDzc

2025-02-19 09:59:42 UTC

Coming up around 7.30pm tonight, the Freedom Anarchist News Review! Looking at Labour's hard(er) turn on migration and cosplay of Muskian 'red tape reduction', Palestine Action taking on the BBC, syndicalist picketing and possibly more! Subscribe and such here:
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763/streams
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2025-02-12 19:39:28 UTC

Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmfelsmP3Q0

2025-02-05 13:04:48 UTC

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2025-02-04 12:14:07 UTC

Coming up at half seven tonight, the Freedom Anarchist News Review! Find us at:
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
Topics we may or may not get to include:
- Barcelona mass eviction resistance
- Greece train crash protests
- Anarchism in wartime Ukraine
- JSO appeal hearings
- The revival of Heathrow and Rosebank
- Reform polling ahead of Labour
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2025-02-02 15:22:14 UTC

We didn't expect the timing of this to be as good as it is, but are happy to be launching Physical Resistance: 100 Years of (British) Anti-Fascism with a talk by editor/writer Louise Purbrick on Thursday February 13, 7pm at Freedom Bookshop (E17QX)!
Dave Hann's history focuses on the grassroots direct action and organising that is so often absent from more academic writing, but absolutely vital to the work of reversing far-right infiltration and manipulation of working class communities.
Prior to the launch itself we're offering a pre-order with 12.5% discount on what's already an absurdly cheap book, making it about the price of a contemporary central London pint (more's the pity for the humble pint):
https://freedompress.org.uk/product/pre-order-physical-resistance-100-years-of-anti-fascism/
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2025-01-30 14:12:14 UTC

Also on tonight for folks who can't get to our talk in Whitechapel
(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussion-with-rhiannon-firth-sam-garrett-and-ellis-fox-tickets-1222816961449?aff=oddtdtcreator)
is an exclusive Live Screening of Belkî Sibê - A Documentary of War, Revolution, and Liberation in in Rojava and north-eastern Syria, well worth catching!
https://actionnetwork.org/events/thursday-exclusive-live-screening-of-belki-sibe-a-documentary-of-war-revolution-and-liberation-in-syria/
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2025-01-30 12:04:30 UTC

Tonight! All welcome, come and have a chat about how mutual aid rises in a crisis - an additional note is that Rhiannon Firth is also the author of Disaster Anarchy, which showcases how the spectre of mass looting and chaos is a useful fantasy for the State - in fact cooperation is commonplace.
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2025-01-28 19:32:04 UTC

We're live over on youtube for the Freedom Anarchist News Review! Cheap AI panic, Extremism (un)defined and Water palavers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luMnaEzQsSQ

2025-01-28 12:30:39 UTC

Coming up arond half seven tonight, the Freedom Anarchist News Review: Chat on topics like the AI panic, definitions of extremism, occupations against high speed rail (in France) and maybe other things. Subscribe and such here:
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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2025-01-25 17:38:18 UTC

A quick catchup with what we've been up to, including the announcement of our upcoming new book: Physical Resistance!
https://freedomnews.org.uk/?na=v&nk=0-0&id=37
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2025-01-21 19:32:03 UTC

Now livestreaming: The Freedom Anarchist News Review! Covering the Trump inauguration, Gaza ceasefire and the British State's weaponisation of moral panics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBnSnGAKhl4

2025-01-21 12:17:34 UTC

Liverstreamining at around half seven tonight, the Freedom Anarchist News Review! And there's a lot to talk about eh. Subscribe and check out our previous reviews here:
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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2025-01-14 12:23:59 UTC

Coming up at around half seven tonight: The Freedom Anarchist News Review! Subscribe for notifications like and comment to promote it etc, you know the drill.
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763

2025-01-07 19:53:51 UTC

Live now: Our first news review of the New Year! Chatting about New Years prison solidarity, the Farage-Musk farrago and tomorrow's article on the Zapatistas. Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVw20Ao20Ds

2025-01-07 12:49:44 UTC

We're back tonight with our first Anarchist News Review of the new year, subscribe and tune in around half seven tonight to hear us mimble on about what's up!
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763

2024-12-03 10:38:30 UTC

Coming up around half seven tonight, the Freedom anarchist news review! Covering topics like renewed pressure on the Kurds in Syria and Britain, Barcelona housing protests, Starmer's new deportation plans and anarchist bookfairs.
Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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2024-11-27 18:40:54 UTC

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/11/27/london-solidarity-with-kurdish-community-after-anti-terrorist-raids/

2024-11-26 21:01:40 UTC

With chat about rallies on International Women's Day, the accelerating collapse of Elbit's presence in Britain, and why the right is suddenly worried about a firm like Blackrock's links to Starmerite Labour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ65ZtUrLn0

2024-11-26 12:49:29 UTC

Coming up after the our editorial meeting tonight, around 7.30pm, the weekly Freedom Anarchist News Review! Subscribe to our Youtube to get the notification etc, and if you want to get involved in producing anarchist news contact us via editor@freedompress.org.uk.
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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2024-11-21 14:09:49 UTC

Grotesque overreach to quash nonviolent property damage as 20-30 Gazans continue to die daily
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/11/19/palestine-action-counter-terror-elbit/

2024-11-19 19:43:02 UTC

Starting now: The Freedom anarchist news review! https://www.youtube.com/live/fR0S1tvIpJQ?feature=shared

2024-11-05 19:27:39 UTC

The November 5 Freedom News Review is now live!
https://www.youtube.com/live/j5I6uNYukdk?feature=shared

2024-11-05 10:11:26 UTC

Tonight: Our weekly news review, starting after our editorial meeting (so probably around half seven)! Subscribe to our Youtube for the reminders:
https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763
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2024-11-02 12:55:40 UTC

Many thanks go to the doughty volunteer who traipsed up to Manchester today for the Manchester Anarchist Bookfair - on til 4pm! We're doing a special discount on our latest title 'Fight For a New Normal?' at the event, which also saw a talk by editor Jim Donaghey about what's in it!
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2024-10-30 13:29:04 UTC

*Labour’s anti-trans health betrayal*
Trans people must form coalitions to face a government joining the side of cruelty ...
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/30/labours-anti-trans-health-betrayal/

2024-10-29 19:53:48 UTC

Starting now, the Freedom Anarchist News Review!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xH-VwkmXk

2024-10-29 10:40:42 UTC

Happening today, the second in our possibly regular series of informal anarchist news reviews!
We look at stories we've covered over the week, plus some musings about general goings on, starting sometime after our editorial meeting (so probably around half seven). Sub to https://www.youtube.com/@freedom9763 for the notification!
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2024-10-27 10:45:39 UTC

*Education and autonomy in times of ecological collapse*
Zapatista education promotes a relationship with knowledge based on the needs and questions of students and communities.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/27/education-and-autonomy-in-times-of-ecological-collapse/

2024-10-26 20:22:37 UTC

*Frontex: 20 years of human rights violations*
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which “assists” European countries in “border management, control and security”, is 20 years old tomorrow
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/25/frontex-20-years-of-human-rights-violations/

2024-10-24 14:46:55 UTC

Green colonialism in Western Sahara
Under Moroccan occupation, renewables projects are being used to reinforce dominance
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/24/green-colonialism-in-western-sahara/

2024-10-23 10:12:21 UTC

"As with disruptive road protests, this is a recent phenomenon in which pathetic victimhood is constantly paraded around by people with immense power, often in the same breath as complaining about ‘snowflakes’."
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/23/milkshake-farage-is-a-courtroom-crybaby/

2024-10-22 18:34:44 UTC

Starting now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWkuKVoepTg
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2024-10-06 09:30:11 UTC

Hopefully arriving in time for the Anarchist Bookfair in London on October 12th, In this issue of Freedom we focus on the topic of solidarity across borders looking at both the ways in which the right and far right organise, and how we can.
Articles include:
– Spycops and the McLibel case
– No Name Kitchen and solidarity on the borders
– The far-right’s internationalism
– Long covid and the abandonment of disabled people
– The Zapatista development of solidaristic education
– ABC Moscow and prisoner solidarity in Putin’s Russia
– The story of A-Infos
– Anarch-iversraies: 1984 and 1999
– Reviewing the anarchism of Rita Holdsworth
– Review: Three Way Fight
– Freedom Press Update
– Our very difficult crossword
And if you can't make it down to the event on the day you can order it for the cost of postage from our online shop: https://freedompress.org.uk/product/freedom-winter-2024-25/
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2024-09-04 06:59:22 UTC

The xenophobic unrest in the UK this summer was a troubling attempt to stage ‘people’s riots’, and this should not be ignored. We see our enemies co-opting the language and tactics of revolt to defend white supremacy. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/09/03/neo-fascisms-false-mantle-of-insurrection/

2024-09-02 09:56:06 UTC

French cops have started harassing tree protesters, this has led to two falling, both of whom are hospitalised. One has suffered six fractures including to their spine. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/09/02/france-activists-spine-broken-as-police-besiege-a69-zad/ #anarchism #environment #frpol

2024-09-01 07:51:50 UTC

The entire workforce and board at longrunning anti-war paper Peace News (PN) have resigned en masse, citing a “tidal wave of intimidation, harassment, and threats” from the group’s trustees. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/09/01/mass-resignation-closes-peace-news-hold-to-mon/

2024-08-30 11:15:01 UTC

EXCLUSIVE — For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the war on Ukraine. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/30/through-war-despotism-and-social-change-russias-anarchist-black-cross/ #anarchism #rupol #russia #prison

2024-08-26 07:15:31 UTC

*A prisons crisis, or an opportunity?*
"If Starmer wants to avoid overcrowding he could start by reversing the drive to hand multi-year sentences to non-violent activists which was, in the first place, an obscene clunking boot to bring down on civil liberties in response to relatively mild levels of disruption."
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/26/a-prisons-crisis-or-an-opportunity/
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2024-08-25 09:40:23 UTC

Fourteen trans activists from the Trans Kids Deserve Better, all aged 18 or under, have occupied the Department for Education’s (DfE) Westminster headquarters to protest for “the right to a safe and inclusive education, and the rights of trans youth and adults” https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/25/trans-youth-occupy-department-of-education/ #directAction #trans #ukpol #anarchism

2024-08-08 14:21:14 UTC

Reclaim the Power activists held for conspiracy to disrupt Drax power station, while violent far right faces no pre-emptive raids.
Climate camp cancelled after police raid seizes infrastructure.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/08/climate-camp-cancelled-after-police-raid-seizes-infrastructure-22-arrested/ #climate #drax #ukpol #anarchism

2024-08-08 11:02:47 UTC

Officers from the Metropolitan police this morning led local forces in a raid on Bentley Urban Farm in Doncaster, said eye witnesses. They arrested twenty two activists, who were preparing to transport infrastructure, sanitation and accessibility equipment to the upcoming climate camp at Drax power station. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/08/mass-pre-emptive-arrest-of-reclaim-the-power-activists-in-yorkshire/ #climate #anarchism #ukpol

2024-08-08 04:47:56 UTC

On Wednesday thousands of antifascists took to the streets - and the far-right backed down on their threats to attack immigration advice centres and solicitors’ offices. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/07/far-right-weds-roundup/ #anarchism #antiFascism #ukpol

2024-08-06 10:08:43 UTC

How Bristol antifascists saw off the racist pogrom on Saturday. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/06/fighting-the-racists-in-bristol-only-we-can-protect-our-communities/ #anarchism #antifascism #racism #ukpol #refugees

2024-08-05 06:20:57 UTC

The far right stepped up its offensive street presence over the weekend. There were attacks on individuals and buildings (including homes, shops and at least one mosque), as well as confrontations with police, in Belfast, Bristol, Hull, Manchester, Nottingham, Southport, Sunderland, Blackpool, Liverpool, and Stoke-on-Trent, among others. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/04/racist-riots-post-election-binge-or-far-right-surge/ #anarchism #antifascism #farright

2023-05-04 07:30:14 UTC

Interview: Biofuel Watch
Biofuel Watch works to campaign against the use of bio-energy. Focusing a lot at the moment on woody biomass. So [our] forests being used to create electricity, but also liquid biofuels from crops like corn and soy. And we campaign to highlight the issues for biodiversity and the climate, and [t
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/04/interview-biofuel-watch/
#AxeDrax #BiofuelWatch #CorporateWatch #Drax #EarthFirst! #Eco-defenceminiseries #StopBurningTreesCoalition
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2022-12-23 08:00:02 UTC

Heat the Rich? Part six: British Gas/Centrica
Freedom is republishing a series of six articles by Corporate Watch about the energy cartels. CW explains:
Throughout this winter Corporate Watch has been taking a critical look at the top six UK energy
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/12/23/heat-the-rich-part-six-british-gas-centrica/
#bigsixenergysuppliers #BritishGas #carbonoffsetting #Centrica #CentricaGroupplc. #CorporateWatch #CostofLivingCrisis #Fracking #greenwashing #pre-paymeters
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