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Trespass network

21 May 2018

Too soon, victory for the ZAD led to despair

In the 1970s the French government announced its next major airport expansion in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Nantes. The 200-hectare site, projected to become the third largest airport in the…

Brighton SolFed

15 May 2018

We taught them a lesson: Beating a deposit deduction

Below is the write-up of a successful campaign organised by a tenant and Brighton SolFed against a deduction to that tenant’s deposit. The three month public campaign…

Avalanche

3 May 2018

On the struggle against Bässlergut prison

This text, first published in Avalanche, offers a perspective on the direct action struggle against Bässlergut, a prison and detention facility in Switzerland, from one of the…

Zosia Brom

2 May 2018

The shambles of Moria 35 Trial

On 18th July 2017, 35 refugees in Moria camp on Lesvos were arrested. The arrests followed a two day protest involving a sit- in outside of the…

Are You Syrious?

22 March 2018

EU-Turkey deal: an error in the system

Two years ago, the EU-Turkey deal on refugees came to force. Since then, every person arriving ‘irregularly’ on Greek islands should be returned to Turkey. That would…

Lee Marsh

7 March 2018

Women in football

Women have always been systematically discriminated against by the football authorities, for simply wanting to play football. The English FA, a bastion of bourgeois conservatism, banned women…

Are You Syrious?

4 March 2018

Refugee crisis: violent push backs in the Balkans

In spite of severe weather conditions, push backs of refugees in the Balkans continue. Are You Syrious present the report on illegal push-backs from Croatia. “The law…

Are You Syrious?

18 February 2018

Human aspect of refugee crisis: When can my life start again?

This text is published with permission from Are You Syrious (AYS): a group of volunteers working with refugees across Europe. They produce excellent daily news digests on…

Chiara Lauvergnac

31 January 2018

Calais border, news after the May-Macron summit

This text was contributed to Freedom News by a long-standing No Borders activist. She has been working in Calais for over 8 years. She first got involved…

Freedom News

30 January 2018

Chile: Lies, dam lies and a Mapuche activist murdered

It has taken nearly a year-and-a-half of fighting the authorities, and a second autopsy, to confirm what the family of Macarena Valdés Muñoz already knew – she…

Fingers Malone

29 January 2018

Your home is at risk…

Social housing is under attack from privatisation, gentrification, and straight up neglect. Thousands of people have found out they live in unsafe blocks which they had previously…

Chris Cole

9 January 2018

Chris Cole on class and peace activism

Chris Cole is most famous for his involvement in raids on warplanes in the 1990s, has been active at the heart of British peace activism for 30…

Zosia Brom

3 January 2018

Fortress Europe: a View From Its Eastern Border

European attention to the ongoing crisis of migration is mostly focused on the Mediterranean. The terrible plight of refugees stranded there is well known to the general…

Anon 2017122901

29 December 2017

Wealth blinds our rulers to the truth about homelessness

Recently the National Audit Office (NAO) published a study which was of surprise to no-one—notwithstanding the blustering pretend humbug of neoliberals and Tories—showing that welfare cuts cause…

Yasmeen Arde

15 December 2017

Frestonia and Me

A former resident writes on their experience of the Free and Independent State of Frestonia

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