'There's an anarchist living next door!' Breach of human rights row as anti-terror police tell residents to report them along with Islamic fundamentalists

• Anarchists should be reported, advises Westminster anti-terror police

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Last updated at 3:34 PM on 1st August 2011

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Counter-terrorism police have asked…

Every few years, anarchists are deemed scary again, the media goes into hysterical overdrive and policing becomes more repressive. It is a pattern we have seen repeated several times over the years.

However, the news briefing from Project Griffin, issued each week from Chief Inspector Nick Smith and his team at the 'Westminster Counter Terrorism Focus Desk',

advising "any information relating to …

Teachers are familiar with reporting the badly-behaved (moot point as to what difference it makes when they do...) - so it's entertaining to read in today's Guardian that the police want us, in our communities, dobbing those around us in if we think they're anarchists. This is all part of a creeping system of social "telling on" - universities have been told to report extremists for some time…

I doubt many people have heard of Project Griffin. It is a joint initiative between the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police, set up in 2004 and based at the City Police's HQ, which has spread its network to police forces around the country and seeks to "advise and familiarise managers, security officers and employees of large public and private sector organisations across the ca…

Hackney libraries are an essential community resource which are under threat from cuts in public services. Staff face redundancies and down-grading and the many services which libraries provide, like community events are threatened. Hackney Anarchist Group held a Libraries InfoNight at Well Furnished on July 21st to draw attention to the role of libraries in social cohesion and education to hear f…

Written some twenty years ago and just republished by the Anarchist Library, ex-Freedom editor Charlie Crute gives us his impressions of one of the giants of modern anarchism.

Murray Bookchin, now in his early seventies, was born into a tradition of iconoclasm. His parents h ad emigrated to New York after the 1905 revolution in Russia — a grandmother had been a member of the (anti-Bolshevik)…

OFFMARKET GOT EVICTED ON 7th JULY. CONTACT US TO KNOW WHERE THE MEETING WILL BE. 

Text 07773192373or email hag [at] aktivix.org

This event is now taking place at Well Furnished, 11-13 Terrace Road, Homerton

WellFurnished, 11-13 Terrace Road, E9, Homerton.

Fire Extinguishers and Fire Starters

Anarchist interventions in the #SpanishRevolution, an account from Barcelona

Click at the link below for a detailed first hand account and reflections of the occupation of Barcelona's Plaça de Catalunya square from an anarchist perpective.

Sources have informed us that two anarchists, believed to be members of an autonomous proto-working group allegedly connected to the Hackney Anarchist Group(HAG) were kidnapped by state employed thugs for the ‘illegal' flyposting of a poster for the open launch meeting of the Hackney Anarchist Group*, to take place this Saturday.

OffMarket

121, Lower Clapton Road

Live show footage of Drowning Dog & Malatesta at C.N.T. Paris 2011. Booking Shows in the U.K. with Acero Moretti October 2011. the week of the London Anarchist Bookfair. contact through site. www.ekrecords.info

The Austrian-born anarchist author and former semi-professional football player, Gabriel Kuhn, recently released his newest book with PM Press, Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics. We talked to Kuhn about football, anarchism, and sports in a better world.

• Is there anything intrinsically ‘anarchistic’ about football?

I’m tempted to say that there isn’t any…

Larc

The origins of Mayday as international workers day are embedded in anarchist tradition, not least because of the ‘martyrdom’ of the eight Chicago anarchists who were tried for murder for their supposed role at Haymarket in May 1886. The subsequent execution of four of them was seen amongst radicals worldwide as the US state exacting revenge on the agitators for their political beliefs rather …

We oppose the royal family. All this publicity to ‘celebrate the royal wedding’, it rubs us up the wrong way. We hate it. But in the press there’s no reasons coming out as to why people hate the royals.

Here’s why we’re against them.

We often hear how the monarchy have no power, they’re just figureheads. Fuck off. They have more power than me or you, how many doors do you think the nam…

For episode 78, the Dissident Island Crew put together something extra hot.. A Sex Worker Special! The show features:



* Ava Caradona from x:talk discussing sex work and border regimes

* Claire, speaking candidly about her experiences of the vulnerabilities of working in different sex work settings

* Luca, a queer sex worker, political activist, and Open Sex Workers' University organiser, talking…

Bolivia, Climate Change, Anarchism and Cuts - worth a read http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=404

(and yes, quite a funny url :)

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD NOW!!!

DISSIDENT ISLAND EPISODE 75 - 4TH FEB 2011

* Collective for better Collectives talking about their group and upcoming events

* Live in the studio - a reflection on the upcoming Space for Change with Camp for Climate Action UK

* A discussion with Corporate Watch on "non-lethal" weapons - and how Israel is testing them in Palestine

* An audio montage - snippets of…

Episode 74 was a busy one for us, so put on your listening hat(s) as we begin by hearing a discussion about resistance to GM and the plans for January's Stop GM gathering. Live in the studio we had two of the occupiers of the new Bloomsbury Freeskool, telling us about where they're at and their plans for the building.



Next us we had one of the many anti cuts updates from groups such as the IWW, UK…

Back from our holiday break us dissidents were still a little fuzzy headed but we managed to pull our heads out of our asses long enough to have functioning conversations with a fair few people. Ben, from UK Uncut, came into the studio and had a good long chat with us about ideas behind the campaign as well as looking at what the year ahead might have in store.

One of the defendants in the recent…

An awesome end of year show featuring an interview with Michael Albert on participatory economics, chats with the Green and Black Cross, news from the recent Ratcliffe Trial, debates about Alternative Media and the Anti-Cuts Demos, a Hot Topic on benefits cuts, a D*I DJ set featuring our favourite craptastic 80s tracks and much much more. Enjoy!

Direct action is part of creating direct democracy, but the student protests saw the media painting a caricature of anarchism

Protesters are never a homogenous group, but those who protested under the anti-cuts banner last week were united in the view that the marketisation of higher education should be opposed. Typically, however, property destruction magically transformed a sizeable subset in…

EPISODE 68 featuring:



• IMCista Maqui, talking about the cuts in Spain, grassroots resistance, the general strike on Sept 29 and what's happening now...

• DJ experiences from the 80s and 90s rave scene, thanks to Tom Wrongspeed

• Music, a 'hot topic' discussion around the Birmingham Tory Party Conference demo and Smash EDO, banter, bollocks...

• DJ Wrongspeed on the decks

And its ready for do…

For this show the dissidents scoured the world selecting the finest information to put inside your head (through your ears)

- we talked to an Ad Hoc Properties resident about his experiences living in an 'anti-squat' and how seeing Leegstand Zonder Zorgen has affected his outlook

- all the way from 'down under' we had a member of the City is Ours group in Melbourne about squatting and housing ri…

If you ask anyone on the street, "what business is Google in?", they'll answer without hesitation, "they are in the search business." Google is seen primarily as a search company. It gives us, the public, internet search services for free, out of the generosity of its corporate heart. It also happen to give a us a whole pile of other great services: Gmail, YouTube, Gtalk, and the Android mobi…

On Dissident Island's third birthday the crew brought a nice mixed bag of happenings from the UK and beyond.

In the History corner this week we have Martyn Everett discussing the life and work of revolutionary Frechwoman Louise Michel.

We hear about the upcoming anniversary of Sean Rigg's death in police custody as well as some of the inspirational and defiant speeches from last week's vigi…

Article from Shift magazine no.9,Cochabamba. Dariush Sokolov offers an anarchist view of Morales’ Cochabamba conference. He argues that we ought to stay true to our principles rather than getting involved in such state-funded events.

Read full article at the link below ...

No surprises as capitalism scores a massive victory in the 2010 elections

At the time of Freedom going to press and the time of its actual publication the results of the UK general election with have been decided and a new government will have been formed.  Intriguingly, at least in terms of future legislation is concerned, there will be a hung Parliament where neither of the two leading parties …