GOVERNMENT WANTS TO ADD ‘LIFE SCIENCES’ TO THE LIST CREATED TO REPRESS CLIMATE PROTEST ~ Nathan McGovern ~ Whether it’s blocking roads, destroying Israel-bound weapons, or rescuing puppies from animal testing, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Parliament and the Courts are out to get you. The 2020’s have been a story of repeated anti-protest legislation, ping-ponging between the Houses of Commons and Lords, until painfully becoming law If anybody thought this would come to an end when a Labour supermajority swept into power in 2024, they couldn’t have been more wrong. Now, the Government is attempting to further bolster the Public Order Act 2023 by adding Life Sciences to its list of Key National Infrastructure, threatening a year in prison and unlimited fines on those who disrupt live experimentation on animals. The Conservative Government’s Police, Crimes, Sentencing, and Courts Bill presented to the Commons in 2021 started with 70 pages of reforms dealing with violent and sexual crimes, then swerved to a full-frontal assault on freedom of expression, assembly, and action. While the Lords rejected many of these measures, the Bill became law in 2022 and police powers suddenly expanded beyond comprehension. The sentencing for anyone convicted of causing a public nuisance jumped to a maximum of 10 years imprisonment. The Public Order Bill, presented in 2022’s Queen’s Speech, essentially repackaged and built on just those aspects of the PCSC Bill that were rejected by the Lords, and by the time it became law in 2023 the Public Order Act criminalised “locking-on,” introduced “Serious Disruption Prevention Orders,” and formalised a list of — seemingly sacred — Key National Infrastructures. Directly targeting Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, this list included motorways, the fossil fuel industry, and the print media. Labour’s current attempt to expand this to Life Sciences (read: animal testing) is a direct response to successful animal liberation actions, in in particular at MBR Acres, previously known as Interfauna. This is a facility that breeds thousands of beagle puppies yearly for use in toxicology and other testing. In 2022, on two separate occasions, Animal Rising successfully rescued puppies from the site; a total of 23 dogs were saved, and 20 people subsequently charged with burglary. In the first of five jury trials for these actions the verdict was ‘guilty’, but in the second which has just ended it was ‘not guilty’. It hasn’t been easy for the Government. Their attempt to smuggle change through secondary legislation has failed, and the decision will ultimately go to a full vote in the Commons tomorrow. Many MPs from all parties have indicated they intend to vote no. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan McGovern is Beagle Rescue Campaign Lead at Animal Rising The post Animal testing to be designated Key Infrastructure appeared first on Freedom News.

JAMES BIRMINGHAM JOINS SIMON AND JON FOR A TRANSATLANTIC SHOW TO KICK OFF 2026 ~ US bellicosity in Venezuela and Greenland has shocked the world with what has been a naked display of gangster tactics in the first instance, and a seeming disdain for Nato in the second – and just today it has announced withdrawal from 66 international organisations. The shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Good meanwhile has been kicking off protests nationwide. Back in Blighty, the Filton Palestine solidarity hunger strike has seen one of the hunger strikers, Teuta Hoxha, forced to stop amid fears she has suffered irreversible damage to her body, while Kamran Ahmed was admitted to hospital for the sixth time yesterday and his immediate family notified. The hunger strikers are between 50 and 70 days in, which is the same range that killed Bobby Sands. In London, a recent FT story has gone into a bit of detail over a proposed data centre at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. And last but not least, Freedom has published an exclusive interview with Iranian group the Anarchist Front about the uprising which is taking place there  The post Anarchist News Review: The US gets aggressive while the UK sits around appeared first on Freedom News.

EXCESSIVE POLICING OF PENTONVILLE DEMO IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE ACTION HUNGER STRIKERS ~ Blade Runner ~ The traditional anarchist New Year’s Eve gathering outside HMP Pentonville was joined on December 31, 2025 by a solidarity demonstration for remand prisoners currently on hunger strike, organised by Palestine Pulse alongside other grassroots groups. Hundreds of people assembled on Caledonian Road carrying Palestinian flags and banners, with the demonstration centred on solidarity with prisoners rather than disruption. Nevertheless, police responded with a large and visibly disproportionate deployment. Protesters counted at least 21 police vans in the immediate area, equating to roughly 170 officers. Many were deployed in boiler suits and carrying long batons, signalling a preparedness for confrontation rather than assembly facilitation. Despite the heavy police presence, passing drivers repeatedly sounded their horns in support of the demonstration. Officers attempted to confine protesters behind railings on a narrow stretch of pavement, but as numbers grew this quickly became untenable. Protesters spilled onto the road and began a spontaneous march around the prison block, entering Wheelwright Street. Police reinforcements arrived as officers moved to block surrounding streets, fragmenting movement and preventing the crowd from circulating freely. > The march was halted and forced back towards Caledonian Road. Further attempts > to move south were blocked by additional cordons, leaving protesters penned-in > on the carriageway. The aggressive policing approach generated predictable > friction, resulting in minor injuries and two arrests, both reportedly > released in the early hours of 1 January. Following the standoff, demonstrators regrouped and moved away from the prison under continued police pressure, later continuing through central London and dispersing at Piccadilly Circus. At the centre of the protests is a coordinated hunger strike involving eight remand prisoners held in multiple UK prisons, including Pentonville, Bronzefield, New Hall and Peterborough. All are being held without conviction for alleged offences linked to Palestine Action. Several prisoners are approaching 60 days without food, while two others previously paused their hunger strike following severe health deterioration after more than seven weeks. The hunger strikers’ demands include the closure of Elbit Systems’ UK sites and an end to prolonged pre-trial detention. Doctors, families and supporters have repeatedly warned of escalating health risks, with hospitalisations reported and serious concerns raised about irreversible damage. > Recent demonstrations outside Pentonville have already focused on solidarity > with one of the hunger strikers, Kamran, who is among the Filton 24 arrestees > and has been hospitalised for the fifth time after more than 50 days on hunger > strike. NYE demonstrations were also planned outside prisons in Brixton and > Peterborough this year. Since the proscription of Palestine Action earlier in 2025, the British state has increasingly relied on remand, isolation, and restrictive custodial regimes against those accused of involvement in the group. Supporters describe a pattern including censorship of books and correspondence, denial of prison work, transfers far from family networks, and repeated refusals of bail. > Taken together, activists view the policing of demonstrations and the > treatment of remand prisoners as part of a domestic counter-insurgency > strategy, in which overwhelming police presence, pre-emptive containment and > punitive detention function to send a broader warning to those considering > militant solidarity with Palestine. > In this context, the hunger strike has become a focal point, seen as exposing > how prisons and public order policing are being used to suppress dissent and > discipline political resistance. > > As the new year begins, the prisoners’ fast continues. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Photos: Blade Runner The post Hundreds at New Year’s Eve London prison protest appeared first on Freedom News.

REPRESSION TARGETS CHITA ANARCHISTS ALREADY JAILED FOR WAR RESISTANCE AND ANTI-REGIME GRAFFITI ~ Antti Rautiainen ~ The regional prosecutor’s office for the Trans-Baikal region in eastern Siberia has submitted a petition to a local court to recognize the “Trans-Baikal Left Association” as a terrorist organisation. The petition refers to the telegram channel 75zlo, allegedly maintained by jailed anarchists Aleksandr Snezhkov and Lyubov Lizunova, which the petition asks to declare as “leaders” of this association. The court hearing is scheduled for January 13. Currently the channel has 72 subscribers, and no posts have been published there since the anarchists were detained. If the court agrees with the prosecutor’s office and recognises 75zlo as a “terrorist community”, any activity related to it will be prohibited. In Russia, “forming a terrorist organisation” is punishable from 15 years in prison to a life sentence. Aleksandr does not agree with the prosecutor’s claim and will seek to participate in the hearing. Snezhkov and Lizunova, then 19 and 16 years old, were arrested in October 2022 in Chita, Eastern Siberia, and accused of “vandalism” and “propaganda of terrorism” for spraying graffiti against the regime and maintaining anti-war Telegram channels. More than two years later, in November 2024, they were sentenced by a military court to 6 and 3.5 years in prison, respectively. 75 is the regional code of the Trans-Baikal region used in car licence plates, and zlo is an acronym for both the Trans-Baikal Left Association and the popular anti-police slogan “to revenge everything on cops”. Last October, Snezhkov was sentenced to an additional five years for “justification of terrorism” for reading his case files to his cellmates. During his imprisonment, Snezhkov has been sent to solitary confinement for long periods, last spring he spent 90 days in the hole. During his current pre-trial detention he was again sent to the hole for 20 days. Recently, a support group announced a collection of 280 thousand rubles (about £2,600) to help the two anarchists for costs of parcels during the next six months. Letters of support must be written in Russian (use auto-translate) and can be sent to Aleksandr at: Снежкову Александру Евгеньевичу 2003 г.р. Россия, 672010, Забайкальский край, г. Чита, ул Ингодинская, 1а, СиЗО-1. России по Забайкальскому краю and to Lyubov at: Лизуновой Любови Витальевне, 2006 г.р. Россия, 670000, г.Улан-Удэ, ул.Пристанская, 4-а, ИК-7 It is also possible to write to Alexandr via prisonmail.online using region “Zabaykalsky Krai” and prison “SIZO-1 Chita” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With information from Moscow Anarchist Black Cross, Fires of Freedom and Ivan Astashin The post Russia plans to declare anti-war Telegram channel a “terrorist organisation” appeared first on Freedom News.

HUNT SABOTEURS WERE OUT IN FORCE OVER THE HOLIDAY PERIOD TO MONITOR AND DISRUPT HUNTS ACROSS THE UK ~ punkacademic ~ With a ban on trail hunting looming, sabs reported that hunt organisers were in melancholic mood — though this didn’t prevent the usual carnival of death taking place in numerous locations including Devon, Dorset, Kent, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and the Isle of Wight. Trail hunting — the supposed practice of hounds following a scent rather than a live animal — has long been a cover for actual fox hunting since the official ban on hunting with dogs was became law in 2004. Last week the government announced plans to ban the practice, immediately opposed by Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK party. Farage himself attended a hunt in Kent on Boxing Day. Attendance at some hunts was paltry, with South Hampshire Hunt Sabs reporting only seven riders for the Hursley Hambledon hunt at Chilbolton Down, albeit accompanied by four “quad bikes with masked terriermen”. This mirrored an intimidatory posture by a number of hunts across the country, with masked terriermen a constant presence despite a ban on their attendance at events by the British Hound Sports Association. The 3 times convicted Seavington Hunt invade Crewkerne. Image: North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs on Facebook Spectacular successes were achieved by sabs in the Severn Valley, where the Dummer Beagles were prevented from hunting altogether, and in Dorset, were two foxes were saved by sabs from the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt. The hunt in question had seen four of its number convicted in April for illegal hunting. Peterborough Hunt Sabs also forced the Fitzwilliam Hunt to pack up early at Stilton. Sadly, animals were harmed and killed up and down the country, with a deer mauled to death in Dorset, a badger sett destroyed at Okehampton, and hunters filmed whipping their own hounds in Wiltshire. Traffic was endangered in multiple locations as horses and dogs raced across roads. The use of drones by sabs has been particularly effective in disrupting hunt activites, and providing evidence for potential prosecutions, though sab groups are quick to note that in many areas the police are uninterested in pursuing breaches of the hunting ban. With legislative action on trail hunting now part of the government’s proposed animal welfare strategy, hunting advocates including the Countryside Alliance were accused by sabs of the ‘gaslighting of a nation‘, as they employed a rhetorical strategy of pitching rural against urban. Claiming that a trail hunting ban amounted to a ‘war against the countryside’, pro-hunting groups ignored the reality that the majority of Britons, urban and rural, oppose hunting. Sabs know however that to trust in government would be foolish – legislative action over two decades ago failed to eliminate the persecution of foxes, and with Labour’s penchant for u-turns there is no guarantee a ban on trail hunting will ever make it into law. Instead, sab groups across the country are continuing to watch and disrupt hunts wherever they raise their heads, utilising tried and tested methods of direct action to rid the country of a vile elite practice which garners the support of nationalists and far-right figures as an emblem of ‘tradition’. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top image: Weymouth Animal Rights on Facebook       The post Sabs confront annual foxhunting carnage appeared first on Freedom News.

PROTEST IN SOLIDARITY WITH HUNGER STRIKING PALESTINE ACTIONISTS ~ Scott Harris ~ Sheffield group Stop Arming Israel says its activists today blockaded the Ametek-Land factory in Dronfield, protesting the company’s supply of infrared temperature measurement components to Israeli arms company Elbit. Protestors closed off the entrances for about an hour, chanting and giving speeches in support of the hunger strikers currently on remand in British prisons for taking action against companies involved in Gaza genocide. The prisoners demand a a shut-down of Elbit’s operations in Britain as well as immediate bail, an end to the censorship of their communications, the right to a fair trial, and the de-proscription of Palestine Action. All the hunger strikers have currently been hospitalised, with two of them—Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib—having passed 50 days without food. Several of their families have received little or no updates on their situations, according to the Prisoners for Palestine collective. “The hunger strikers are on death’s door”, said the Sheffield group, “Keir Starmer and David Lammy have Palestinian blood on their hands—and they will have the hunger strikers’ blood on their hands too if they do not act now”. Ametek, whose annual sales top $7 billion, increased its share price by nearly 30% during the first 14 months of the Gaza war. The company supplies Elbit with components for fighter jets and tanks used by the Israeli military. The post Sheffield Elbit supplier blockaded appeared first on Freedom News.

PROTESTS AGAINST FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT WITH LATIN AMERICA CAP WEEKS OF DISCONTENT IN SOUTHERN EUROPE ~ from Contre-Attaque ~ Dramatic images emerged from Brussels yesterday (18 December) as thousands of farmers converged on the Belgian capital with their tractors starting at 2:00 AM, and lit fires in front of the European Parliament. They were protesting the Mercosur agreement, which was being discussed at the Council of the European Union, bringing together the heads of EU member states. Mercosur is a free trade agreement that will further pit European farmers against Latin American agribusiness, which operates without regard for regulations and relies on vast industrial farms that devour forests. Clashes outside Parliament continued for much of the day: potatoes and fireworks were thrown against tear gas and water cannons. Police charged the farmers, some of whom responded by driving their tractors towards the police lines. An EU building was targeted. At the end of the day, a forceful charge dispersed the protesters. https://cdn.freedomnews.org.uk/news/2025/12/signal-2025-12-18-211814.mp4 This anger is international: Greece has been paralysed since 30 November 30th by tens of thousands of farmers who are blocking roads, ports, and airports to demand the release of CAP subsidies. Serious clashes have occurred with the police. In France, protests continue against the policy of culling livestock, but more generally to express the despair of a sacrificed profession. Numerous blockades severely disrupted traffic in the Southwest yesterday. Some farmers have vowed to continue the movement, including through the holidays. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video: Contre-Attaque montage from Brut, Luc Auffret, Le Monde, local press The post Brussels: European farmers clash with police appeared first on Freedom News.

SQUATTERS ACCUSE MAYOR OF RETREATING FROM COLLABORATION AGREEMENT FOLLOWING GAZA PROTESTS ~ Cristina Sykes ~ The Askatasuna social centre in Turin, Italy was evicted early this morning, bringing to an end nearly 30 years of occupation. The operation involved the DIGOS political police and armoured vehicles, with several streets sealed off. Police entered the four-storey former municipal building building early in the morning to carry out searches and then sealed the premises. According to activists, six people were inside the building at the time of the raid. The homes of around ten activists linked to the centre and to student collectives were raided at the same time, in connection with recent Palestine solidarity protests including an action at the headquarters of arms manufacturer Leonardo.  During the day police used a water cannon to disperse a growing crowd of supporters who had gathered outside the building, while traffic in the area was blocked and at least one nearby tram line suspended. Two schools in the surrounding area were reportedly closed on the orders of the prefecture. The mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, said the city had withdrawn from a “collaboration pact” with Askatasuna that had been in place since early 2024, when the municipal council formally recognised the occupied building as a “common good” and began a process towards shared management. The mayor’s office stated that inspections by public security authorities had found violations of the conditions of the agreement. Activists and solidarity groups dispute this account, arguing that the police operation and the withdrawal of the pact unfolded on parallel tracks and that pressure from the national government played a decisive role — similarly to the eviction of Milan’s Leoncavallo social centre earlier this year. Several statements described the eviction as a politically motivated act aimed at weakening social movements, in particular those involved in organising protests against the war in Gaza and Italy’s role in international military alliances. Askatasuna, whose name means “freedom” in Basque, has been a central reference point for the city’s autonomous and radical left since 1996. Over the years it hosted political assemblies, cultural events, concerts and community services, including housing advice, children’s activities and mutual aid projects. The centre was also closely involved in major protest cycles in Turin, from the No TAV movement in the Susa Valley to anti-war and anti-fascist mobilisations. Within hours of the eviction, dozens of organisations across Italy issued statements of solidarity, including trade unions, student groups and networks of social centres. Many framed the operation as part of a broader tightening of public order policies under the far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni. A joint statement from social centres in north-eastern Italy described the Turin operation as an “exemplary act” designed to intimidate and warned that autonomous spaces were increasingly being treated as targets of repression. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine-assisted edit. Photos: GlobalProject, Radio Onda d’Urto The post Turin: Askatasuna social centre evicted appeared first on Freedom News.

CNT STRIKE COMMITTEE SIGNS AGREEMENT ON WAGES AND CONDITIONS WITH THE AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING COMPANY ~ from CNT Seville ~ The strike at GAZC Sevilla SL, called by CNT and started on October 6, ended yesterday with the signing of a strike settlement agreement. The agreement includes a new bonus system that more fairly compensates night work, promotions, a new professional classification system, greater participation in the creation of the work schedule, and increased flexibility in choosing vacation days. Payment of wages during vacations is corrected, and measures are taken to ensure job stability and guarantee rights for union representation. Mechanisms have been added to the agreement to maintain a climate of dialogue and negotiation so that, in the future, an attempt can be made to avoid the escalation of a possible conflict. The strike ends after a tough conflict that was finally resolved thanks to the impetus given to negotiations by both sides a couple of weeks ago, the result of the willingness of both the union and the company to restart dialogue and end an indefinite strike that ultimately lasted 72 days. Following a constructive final negotiation process, both the union and the company consider the agreement reached to be balanced, with mutual concessions that have made it possible to end the strike. Both parties hope that the signing of the agreement will usher in a new era of mutual understanding, aimed at resolving any future disagreements through dialogue. The post Strike at GAZC Seville ends after 72 days appeared first on Freedom News.

GREECE’S FARMERS ARE ESCALATING PROTESTS FROM ROAD BLOCKADES TO OPEN CONFRONTATION AS GOVERNMENT RESPONDS WITH REPRESSION ~ Blade Runner ~ After more than ten days of nationwide mobilisation, farmers’ protests last week escalated into open confrontation and clashes with riot police. Protesters have faced arrests and upgraded charges, while in Crete authorities are threatening to prosecute farmers under accusations of forming a “criminal organisation.” From the mountains of Macedonia and Epirus to the plains of Thessaly and Aitoloakarnania, and from olive-growing Messinia to tourist-heavy Crete, thousands of low- and lower-middle-income farmers have taken to the roads. National highways have been shut down, cutting key transport routes and effectively splitting the country into parts. Tractor convoys are marching through major towns and cities, border crossings, ports and airports have been occupied for hours, and state institutions have been targeted with militant interventions. The farmers’ movement has moved decisively beyond symbolic protest. Mainstream media coverage has been sensationalist, with repeated references to “lawlessness” and occasional headlines warning of “insurrection”. This framing supports a broader state narrative that seeks to manipulate the meaning of the protests and brand farmers who confront police repression as “criminals”. Government officials, echoed by media commentators, recycle the familiar distinction between the “good” and the “bad” or “violent” protester. This escalation is unfolding under a centre-right government that includes figures with far-right political backgrounds and rhetoric, and is already facing corruption scandals. Having treated farmers’ representatives with open contempt and unable to address the substance of their demands, ministers have instead threatened prosecutions and expanded policing, signalling a strategy of repression rather than negotiation. Trade unions, youth and local communities have expressed solidarity with the farmers, while anarchist and left-wing groups have actively intervened in support of the mobilisations. The farmers are beginning to break out of isolation and a broader social bloc could be taking shape, capable of undermining the current social peace. RESTRUCTURING THE COUNTRYSIDE The farmers’ revolt cannot be understood outside the long-term restructuring of the Greek countryside under EU and domestic policy. Agriculture in Greece has declined sharply as a share of total employment over recent decades. Around the time Greece joined the European Community in 1981, roughly 30% of the labour force worked in agriculture. Today, that figure stands at around 11–12%, reflecting long-term structural shifts in the economy and population. Successive governments, implementing EU policy, have oriented the Greek economy towards tourism, services and real estate. The country has been reshaped into a low-cost destination for northern and western European capital, while primary production has been hollowed out. Large parts of the rural periphery have been abandoned, with more than a third of the 10 million population living in the Athens metropolitan and wider Attica region. Under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), remaining farming communities have been steered away from diverse and resilient cultivation towards monoculture systems reliant on subsidy regimes and fixed pricing. This shift has heightened ecological vulnerability and locked farmers into dependence on incentives and fluctuating markets. The so-called green transition has further distorted the sector. Farmers are now required to adopt “environmentally friendly” fertilisers and other inputs at significantly higher cost, while fuel and electricity prices continue to rise. At the same time, Greek agricultural products are forced to compete with cheaper imports from outside the EU, frequently produced under far weaker environmental and labour standards but still granted access to European markets. Against the backdrop of escalating imperialist wars, the EU’s decision to divert resources into rearmament programmes such as ReArm Europe signals a further contraction of support for agricultural production. The combined effect has been the steady destruction of small-scale farming. Production costs have soared, while climate breakdown has intensified extreme weather events, creating a vicious cycle that is now erupting openly. Floods in recent years have wiped out entire villages along with whole harvests and, in some cases, rendered land unproductive for multiple seasons. Compensation has been slow, partial or entirely absent, pushing many farmers deeper into debt. At the centre of the current crisis lies the domestic distribution of agricultural subsidies. Networks of intermediaries extract profit from both producers and consumers, while state mechanisms channel public money towards large landowners and agribusiness. In practice, EU subsidies function as a mechanism of class redistribution: a small minority of large landowners and producers absorbs the vast majority of funds, while small and medium farmers remain trapped in a regime of dependency. Fictitious entitlements, weak oversight and clientelist networks ensure that public resources flow upwards. In Crete, these dynamics are particularly stark. Long-standing patronage networks link political power, land ownership and access to EU incentives. In recent months, violent confrontations between rival family networks—reportedly involving heavy gunfire—have exposed how competition over land and subsidies is mediated through intimidation and force. Far from isolated incidents, these clashes reveal the underlying logic of a system that concentrates power and resources in the hands of a few while abandoning the majority. A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL AND DIGNITY The farmers’ revolt is unfolding within a wider cycle of social conflict. In France, farmers blocked part of the A64 highway in December 2025 in protest against livestock culling policies, while earlier in 2024 Spanish and French unions organised tractor blockades at border crossings around the Pyrenees. In Portugal, farmers used tractors to block roads linking to Spain during Europe-wide protests. At the same time, recent months have seen waves of strikes and confrontations over wages, living costs and public services in Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Portugal. Across these different contexts, struggles are increasingly turning towards disruptive tactics that target circulation—from port blockades by farmers to actions in solidarity with Gaza aimed at halting weapons shipments and challenging Israeli military tourism—developments that have been met, across cases, with intensified repression. In Greece, the memory of past uprisings looms large. The debt crisis of the previous decade never truly ended; it reshaped Greek society through austerity, privatisation and mass emigration. The Tempi rail disaster of 2023, which killed 57 people after years of neglect and privatisation of the railway network, remains a stark reminder of the human cost of neoliberal restructuring. Against this backdrop, the ruling class is acutely aware that renewed social explosions are possible. The farmers’ demands are concrete and rooted in material survival. Alongside full compensation for climate-related disasters, they are calling for reductions in production costs, debt relief, tax reductions, a genuinely public and effective national insurance system, equal rights for land workers, dignified pensions and stable income. These demands cut directly against the core of EU agricultural policy and the interests of agribusiness capital, as they appear incompatible with the dominant neoliberal model of global commerce. The state’s response—repression, criminalisation and propaganda—aims to isolate the farmers and prevent the emergence of a wider social challenge. Yet the scale and persistence of the mobilisations suggest that something deeper is unfolding. The farmers’ revolt is not a single sector’s dispute, but a struggle over who bears the cost of climate breakdown and capitalist restructuring. As farmers take to the streets with their tractors, the question confronting Greek society is not only whether agriculture can survive under the existing model, but whether converging struggles can reopen the possibility of a collective rupture with it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Photos: World Riots on Facebook The post Farmers’ revolt in Greece appeared first on Freedom News.