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.

OVER 120 DEAD IN BRAZIL’S DEADLIEST FAVELA RAID IN DECADES ~ Matheus Fonseca ~ At dawn on 28 October, over 2,500 policemen overran the favelas of Penha and Alemão in Rio de Janeiro. They had a warrant to arrest hundreds of individuals linked to Comando Vermelho, the biggest drug trafficking militia active in Brazil, but as soon as they made contact with the gang members, the shootouts started. Police ran belligerents into planned ambushes, and it was reported that militias used suicide drones. Until now there is no confirmation that every casualty was involved in organised crime, nor is it known how many were summarily killed. No video footage has been published. Police may have abandoned a number of corpses found in nearby woods which have been recovered by local residents. According to media, some bodies have what seem to be torture marks and knife cuts. The favelas—slang for ghetto or slum—are overpopulated and lack planning, electricity and water supply, sewage system and proper communication systems. In these districts, hundreds of militia members oppress the working people with extortion, terror campaigns, child soldier recruitment, rape, torture and kangaroo courts. At the UN, High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said that that, for decades, “the high level of killings associated with the police in Brazil has been normalised”, with thousands of black youths from impoverished areas being killed by police every year in the country. He called on Brazil “to end a system that perpetuates racism, discrimination and injustice”. But anarchists in Brazil described the raids as a ‘social hygiene measure’ in the favelas, where every regime since colonial times has maintained poverty and violence.The Organização Socialista Libertária added that “The criminal overlords that control the drug and weapon trafficking in the borders—with police participation—will not be bothered or put out of business” by the raid, especially when “at this moment in time the state has found that the main protagonists in crime are from the upper classes”. It pointed out that past operations have found several multi-millionaire companies related to slush funds in São Paulo city involved in organised crime, and others have found tons of cocaine trafficked in Santos bay. The post Rio police massacre: “The criminal overlords are from the upper classes” appeared first on Freedom News.

EVEN MORE PREDICTABLE THAN THE RISE OF FASCISM AROUND THE GLOBE HAS BEEN ITS SHARP DESCENT INTO INFIGHTING AND BICKERING ~ Sourdough ~ The coalitions that had propelled the far right resurgence have begun to break down. With of Elon Musk recent split from Trump, the tech right is acting like a microcosm of how fascism cemented once again within state power will work. Having failed to successfully cut the federal government’s spending by his intended $2 trillion —–and jumping ship to rescue his flailing stock prices—the rapid deterioration of Musk and Trump’s relationship has become something of public laughingstock. What likely began as a feud over electric vehicle subsidies, and ostensibly the budget, deficit soon climaxed in Trump’s top campaign donor accusing him officially of being a paedophile, and top Trump stooges calling for Musk’s deportation. Following this blow-up and subsequent celebration, however, there has been a period of détente, and it grows increasingly likely that the feud will simply be paved over and forgotten to allow the right to be re-integrated. So what does this mean for those of us without the carefully calibrated amnesia of a fascist? The first takeaway is that the fascists are not as secure in their position as they may seem. The brutality they so often express outwardly will repeatedly turn inward once their self-styled ‘drive for action’ becomes momentarily unsatisfied. Fascism thrives on conflict. By perpetuating conflict and a general state of warfare against the human race and human mind, fascism may distract from its immiseration of even its most fervent supporters, an outsourcing campaign of diversion, whether cultural, ideological, or based on external  features. To fuel its forward propulsion, fascism must continually cannibalise itself and its supporters. No easier can this be seen than in the Nazi’s ‘Night of the Long Knives’, when the brownshirts who had done their utmost for fascism to gain power were liquidated by the same monster they had helped to create. Although not its first victims, the fascists themselves will inevitably be their regime’s last. The second takeaway is that fascists have no solidarity, or if they do it is the solidarity of vultures. The world is for now their rotting corpse, and they are only allied so long as it helps them pick it clean. In a worldview where opportunism and strength overwhelm all other urges, constant backstabbing and jockeying for power are inevitable. Fascism is foremost an ideology of victimhood—at the hands of foreign and internal enemies. By victimising others, and outsourcing their suffering to someone lower on the ladder, fascists overcome their own humiliation as well as ensuring their inevitable place among future victims. Rather than banding together in solidarity, fascism teaches survival of the fittest and permanent war. It is the perfect ideology for capitalism’s de-classed: increasingly isolated, materially impoverished, and always angry. Instead of solidarity fascism teaches a sort of ‘individualism of fools’: you are special and unique, and yet something is foiling your flourishing, and therefore you must outsource your agency to these great men who now control your fate, squabbling on television. The struggle for the liberation of humanity—for a stateless, classless society—must also include liberating people from the hold of these dangerous ideologies. Not out of sympathy, but simply as a byproduct of our desire to free all humanity from all forms of oppression. As our enemies engage in warfare amongst themselves, they demonstrate how un-sustainable their own system is. No doubt this infighting will continue to grow, even if for now it is hastily forgotten and contained. The death of fascism will come by a thousand cuts, many internal. The more they struggle to enact and shape their despotism, the more they will fall on and victimise each other. We must continue to resist in any way possible. Give nothing, and you give them the weapons to harm themselves. The way forward is through the mouth of the fascist beast together, while it chases its own tail. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Image: Parrhesiastes CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The post The fascists eat themselves appeared first on Freedom News.