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.

~ Jon and Simon round off the year with a trip into the weeds talking about reaching the Mark Jenner period in the Spycops saga, Labour’s disgusting joining in on European far-right efforts to undercut human rights laws, the real reasons why housing is under so much pressure, and the latest stories from our newswire. The post Anarchist News Review: What have human rights ever done for us? appeared first on Freedom News.

AFTER FOUR MONTHS OF ARGUMENTS, SPLITS, MONEY GRUBBING, AND SWP EXPULSIONS, WHAT NEXT FOR THE PLUCKY NEW PARTY NOW ESTABLISHED? ~  Simon and Andy also discuss a big downturn in new homes construction, Ofgem’s punting of the energy infrastructure bill to the public, and Labour’s attacks on refugees—which have had exactly the outcome we all predicted.   The post Anarchist News Review: Now that’s what I call Your Party appeared first on Freedom News.

PLUS: ATTACKS ON JURY TRIALS, PALESTINE ACTION CHALLENGE AND US WITCH-HUNT ~ Andy and Simon talk about the Titanically deckchairish Reeves budget as it finally drops the child benefit cap but once again leaves the edifice of extractive capital untouched, the opening of the Filton 24 trial, Lord Jonny Harmsworth’s buyout plan for the Telegraph, and Trump’s designation of various aunti fah terror groups. The post Anarchist News Review: Our thoughts on the Budget appeared first on Freedom News.

LABOUR’S WEAPONISATION OF XENOPHOBIC POLITICS NORMALISES CRUELTY AND ENABLES DIVISION OF WORKERS  ~ Simon and Uri talk about the government’s asylum policy abomination, the Pally Action hunger strike, mountains of waste in Oxfordshire, the recent Bristol “Patriots” March, and Maoist violence against Athens anarchists. The post Anarchist News Review: Asylum abomination and Pally hunger strike appeared first on Freedom News.

AMID A CHORUS OF GREAT JOY AT THE ELECTION OF A SELF-DESCRIBED SOCIALIST IN NEW YORK, IT FALLS TO THE ANARCHISTS, AS EVER, TO SOUND A DISCORDANT NOTE OF CAUTION ~ Andy and Simon discuss Zohran Mamdani’s victory, which has energised much of the left even in Britain—but at regional level the purse is much tighter and vulnerable to the interference of greater power. This side of the pond, we’re seeing Reform UK implosions in Kent, Cornwall and Lancashire well before Nigel Farage gets a sniff of national power. Over in the activist scene meanwhile we’ve had a pair of sentences handed down for Just Stop Oil members, with two being found not guilty of criminal damage to Stonehenge after a cornflour and orange dye incident, and six being convicted for climbing a gantry on the M25—notably, having been denied the right to offer their reasoning to the jury. And we round off with a bit of chat about Freedom stories of the week, including the targeting of Elbit Systems insurer Allianz in Europe, the conviction of ten students in Leicester for protesting the university’s complicity in arms trading, and the infamous, lethal police raid on a favela in Rio. The post Anarchist News Review: Mamdani’s win, Reform’s travails and JSO jailings appeared first on Freedom News.

ANDY AND SIMON ON OUR HEADLONG CHARGE INTO TECH-CARTEL DOMINANCE  ~ Starting off with a quick facepalm about Keir Starmer’s latest humiliation and foolhardy branding of Birmingham as anti-Semitic, we ponder the AWS outage which hit WhatsApp, ChatGPT, PayPal, Epic Games and government services    The post Anarchist News Review: The fragility of our AI-fuelled overlords appeared first on Freedom News.

MIKE AND SIMON DISCUSS THE OPPORTUNISM WHICH HAS BEEN ON DISPLAY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE STABBING ATTACK AT A MOSQUE IN MANCHESTER, AND THE MISERABLE TORY PARTY CONFERENCE After Manchester, we saw police, the media and Labour arguing that somehow this should justify not protesting against the butchery of Gaza, then shortly afterwards, the new Home Secretary started talking about bans against “regular protests” that quite obviously are directed against the Palestine protesters. Most recently Keir Starmer has gone so far as to suggest “inflammatory chants” should go in the ban pot. He plans to consult members of the Jewish community—presumably not the ones who attend the protests. Meanwhile at Tory conference, every headline that’s come out of the conference has been miserable. Not just the content but the tone. From nobody being there (including protesters) to Kemi Badenoch having to make excuses for Robert Jenrick’s racism. The post Anarchist News Review: Labour hammers protest and Tories hammer each other appeared first on Freedom News.

AN OUT AND PROUD LEFTIE IS NOW IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE, BUT WHILE IT’S REFRESHING TO HEAR SOMETHING OTHER THAN FLAT-OUT BIGOTRY, THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PRESSURES HAVEN’T CHANGED … Mike and Simon get into the weeds of how party politics is shifting, with both mainstream parties seemingly on the path to irrelevancy in their bids to placate the far-right while Reform mops up and the left begins reforming with two bids of its own. But is any of this suggesting a possibility of change, or even a deviation from the seemingly suffocating direction of travel? The post Anarchist News Review: Can Polanski save the Greens? Would that change anything? appeared first on Freedom News.

WHILE ELON MUSK STRUGGLES TO GET HIS AI TO STOP CALLING ITSELF MECHA HITLER, THE LESS TECHY WING OF THE ELITES ARE UP TO OLD TRICKS … Simon and Andy discuss the UK government’s shift to juryless trials and what it means for activism, wildfires and heatwave death toll creep, Grok channelling Goebbels, the Filton 18 and proscription protest arrests, property giants buying off a cartel investigation, and Rishi Sunak going old-school revolving door in record time. The post Anarchist News Review: Grok The Nazi, Rishi’s Return To Banking and Cartel Cash Bungs appeared first on Freedom News.