We also consider the increasingly desperate measures the US government is taking to try and shore up its position ahead of the mid-terms, especially on diesel reserves; the likely capture of Brazil by Trumpish far-right candidate Flavio Bolsonaro; Royal Mail’s upcoming jobs cull; and the rise of attacks by the far-right against HMOs. The post La Revolte! Panic in the French State appeared first on Freedom Press.

Mike and Andy talk through some of the implications of the “world order’s collapse,” as Canada’s PM puts it, the new assault on Rojava, and the winding treacheries of UK politics.  The post Anarchist News Review: “World order” in tatters and Rojava under attack appeared first on Freedom News.

SIMON AND URI DISCUSS A BUSY WEEK OF UK NEWS—AND THE WEIRDEST REACTIONS TO THE UPRISING IN IRAN The last three hunger strikers in the Filton campaign have called off their action, on the grounds that at least some of their demands had been secured, including improved treatment, and most significantly the collapse of a training deal between Britain and Israeli arms firm Elbit. Meanwhile over in Parliament we’ve had a day of drama as Robert Jenrick, the senior Tory who’s been bucking for Kemi Badenoch’s position by whinging about brown people and making videos about ticket dodging on the London Underground, was kicked out of the party and promptly joined Reform UK. The post Anarchist News Review: Filton prisoners’ hunger strike ends, top Tory joins Reform 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.

~ 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.