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Streaming now: The Anarchist News Review! Mike and Simon are getting into the weeds on the Budget, Reform UK's travails, and the weird lack of energy on Britain's streets while everywhere else gets stuck in against the status quo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tsG...
Anarchist News Review: Budget bombs and rotting Reform
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Coming up at 7.30pm on the Anarchist News Review we talk feeble Budgets, Reform's decline and its implications, Oil and Gas, and discuss why, when everything is kicking off in Europe, Britain is still so sleepy ... find us at www.youtube.com/@freedomnews... in a bit!
Memory and the Paris riots None of what has been happening in France is entirely new, or separate from French history and society https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/29/memory-and-the-paris-riots/
Memory and the Paris riots
None of what has been happening in France is entirely new, or separate from French history and society
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French protesters defy the ban Postcard from Montpellier: The state failed to co-opt the movement, so it tried threats and intimidation; on Saturday, the people called their bluff https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/28/french-protesters-defy-the-ban/
French protesters defy the ban
Postcard from Montpellier: The state failed to co-opt the movement, so it tried threats and intimidation; on Saturday, the people called their bluff
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Unintentionally these Tribune headlines highlight exactly the paucity of modern left politics. Barely beating the fascistic son of a coup plotter isn't some amazing feat of brilliant electioneering, it's scraping the very bottom of the electoral barrel. It means half the voting population is fine >
Review: Babel and the Wilderness Julian Langer uses a metaphysical topography to explore the very real issues of antisemitism, state-Zionism, and Jewish and anarchist resistance https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/27/review-babel-and-the-wilderness/
Review: Babel and the Wilderness
Julian Langer uses a metaphysical topography to explore the very real issues of antisemitism, state-Zionism, and Jewish and anarchist resistance
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Protest and repression in Italy The government’s only response to pubic frustration and anger has been to tighten measures against demonstrators https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/26/protest-and-repression-in-italy/
Protest and repression in Italy
The government’s only response to pubic frustration and anger has been to tighten measures against demonstrators
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Letters from the French barricades After another weekend of mass protests and clashes in France, Italy, and beyond, we publish these two fresh communications written by groups of participants https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/25/letters-from-the-barricades-in-france/
Letters from the French barricades
After another weekend of mass protests and clashes in France, Italy, and beyond, we publish these two fresh communications written by groups of participants
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The quiet re-rise of UK direct action It is both effective and instructive, because we learn we can do things with the help of each other and not some external authority freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/25/t...
The quiet re-rise of UK direct action - Freedom Press
It is both effective and instructive, because we learn we can do things with the help of each other and not some external authority
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Struggle of the Invisibles As Brazil faces the false choice between Lula and Blosonaro, squatters from Belo Horizonte resist the expropriation of homes https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/23/struggle-of-the-invisibles/
Struggle of the Invisibles
As Brazil faces the false choice between Lula and Blosonaro, squatters from Belo Horizonte resist the expropriation of homes
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Sorry no News Review today due to absences - see you all next week though!
Greece: Teachers and students strike against the cost of living Thousands marched in Athens and other Greek cities to demand increased funding for education, better wages, and solutions to the housing crisis freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/22/g...
Greece: Teachers and students strike against the cost of living - Freedom Press
Thousands marched in Athens and other Greek cities to demand increased funding for education, better wages, and solutions to the housing crisis
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Greece: Teachers and students strike against the cost of living Thousands marched in Athens and other Greek cities to demand increased funding for education, better wages, and solutions to... https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/22/greece-teachers-and-students-strike-against-the-cost-of-living/
Greece: Teachers and students strike against the cost of living
Thousands marched in Athens and other Greek cities to demand increased funding for education, better wages, and solutions to the housing crisis
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Uprising in France: Five moments you may have missed Fires, curfews, far-right marches—and a slogan unwittingly coined by undercover police freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/21/u...
Uprising in France: Five moments you may have missed - Freedom Press
Fires, curfews, far-right marches---and a slogan unwittingly coined by undercover police
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“They’re not protesting and they’re not French” The European students’ revolt exposes far-right “radicalism” as the farce it has always been freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/20/t...
"They’re not protesting and they’re not French" - Freedom Press
The European students’ revolt exposes far-right “radicalism” as the farce it has always been
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Clashes in France as uprising swells to millions One death and severe injuries reported in Saturday’s mass protests, police stations attacked in overseas territories freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/19/c...
Clashes in France as uprising swells to millions - Freedom Press
One death and severe injuries reported in Saturday’s mass protests, police stations attacked in overseas territories
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Why the exploited justify their exploitation We desperately want to believe the world is fair, and we will bury our heads in the sand to preserve that picture https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/19/why-the-exploited-justify-their-exploitation/
Why the exploited justify their exploitation
We desperately want to believe the world is fair, and we will bury our heads in the sand to preserve that picture
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“Our drummer went to the jungle to fight the junta” Interview: The Rebel Riot lead singer Kyaw Kyaw talks about his discovery of punk music and experiences of political upheaval in Myanmar https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/18/our-drummer-went-to-the-jungle-to-fight-the-junta/
“Our drummer went to the jungle to fight the junta”
Interview: The Rebel Riot lead singer Kyaw Kyaw talks about his discovery of punk music and experiences of political upheaval in Myanmar
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French student revolt reaches Argentina Anarchist News Review: Talking more on France and the spread of radical student protests across Europe, with special guest Ben in Montpellier https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/16/french-student-revolt-reaches-argentina/
French student revolt reaches Argentina
Anarchist News Review: Talking more on France and the spread of radical student protests across Europe, with special guest Ben in Montpellier
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Streaming now: The Anarchist News Review! Students are up in arms from France to Albania. We meanwhile have a fascist problem, but with our own uni crisis and water shortages looming there's plenty of less idiotic things than racism to inspire direct action ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6f...
Anarchist News Review: French student revolt reaches Argentina
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Tonight on the Anarchist News Reiew we'll be talking more on France and the spread of student protests, the declaration of severe drought across a swathe of southern England, and the unsurprising news that far-right terror is on the rise. See you at 7.30! www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...
Postcard from Montpellier As ‘Act V’ of the French student uprising begins, the demonstrations remain the largest in years, with little sign that the momentum is slowing https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/15/postcard-from-montpellier/
Postcard from Montpellier
As ‘Act V’ of the French student uprising begins, the demonstrations remain the largest in years, with little sign that the momentum is slowing
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The birth of revolutionary syndicalism 120 years since the Charte d’Amiens, the syndicalist programme for workers' day-to-day struggle and the ultimate abolition of capitalism https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/14/the-birth-of-revolutionary-syndicalism/
The birth of revolutionary syndicalism
120 years since the Charte d’Amiens, the syndicalist programme for workers' day-to-day struggle and the ultimate abolition of capitalism
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Paying to be lied to Notes from the US: A third of the adult population is still taken in by MAGA, which is busy rigging the midterms and accelerating climate collapse Louis Further | 13 October 2026 freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/13/p...
Paying to be lied to - Freedom Press
Notes from the US: A third of the adult population is still taken in by MAGA, which is busy rigging the midterms and accelerating climate collapse
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Gen Z on the barricades Leaderless and online-born revolt is spreading to Europe, outpacing the unions and the left Blade Runner | 12 October 2026 freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/12/g...
Gen Z on the barricades - Freedom Press
Leaderless and online-born revolt is spreading to Europe, outpacing the unions and the left
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Today Joel, Andy and Simon talk about the student-led uprising in France. We’ll also consider the US mid-terms panic, the likely capture of Brazil by Flavio Bolsonaro, Royal Mail’s upcoming jobs cull, and the rise of attacks by the far-right against HMOs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yr...
Anarchist News Review: La Revolte! Panic in the French State
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Comine up at 7.30pm tonight, the Freedom Anarchist news Review! We're talking French rage, US diesel threats, Bolosonao Jr, Royal Mail cuts, HMO racism and changes to jury trials - quite a lot to get through! www.youtube.com/@freedomnews...
France: A tidal wave of youth After two weeks of protests that were as heroic as they were violently repressed, the youth have raised their heads—and the whole country along with them Contre-Attaque | 7 October 2026 freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/07/f...
France: A tidal wave of youth - Freedom Press
After two weeks of protests that were as heroic as they were violently repressed, the youth have raised their heads—and the whole country along with them
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French students disrupt mandatory distance learning Virtual classrooms flooded with noise and fake profiles after government shuts down schools • 5,000 arrests since Friday, police brutality nationwide Contre-Attaque 6 October 2026 freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/06/f...
French students disrupt mandatory distance learning - Freedom Press
Virtual classrooms flooded with noise and fake profiles after government shuts down schools • 5,000 arrests since Friday, police brutality nationwide
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The politics of the commons In governing shared systems, people are active participants. The idea of the commons offers an alternative to both private ownership and centralised state control. Kiran S. Pillai | 5 October 2026 freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/05/t...
The politics of the commons - Freedom Press
In governing shared systems, people are active participants. The idea of the commons offers an alternative to both private ownership and centralised state control.
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