Monthly Archives: January, 2010
Disability: A Claimant’s View
According to a recent OECD report, the UK already has one of the most stringent tests for assessing disability in the world. However, that has not stopped Labour introducing the ‘Employment and Support Allowance’, yet another ‘get-tough’ initiative aimed at reducing the 2.6 million claimants currently receiving Incapacity Benefit (IB). Labour have blamed the Tories [...]
Visteon Workers Fight On
Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK. Visteon UK, formerly the main car parts supplier to Ford, went into [...]
Bad News For Students and Workers
There has been growing opposition to Peter Mandelson’s plans to slash funding for universities. In a letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) late in December, Mandelson, himself a beneficiary of a free Oxford education, announced cuts totalling £398 million. Earlier in the year Mandelson told universities that they would have to [...]
Whitechapel Anarchists Ride Again
Continuing our support of local anarchist projects, here’s a report from our own local area. If you’d like the world to be inspired by what your group are doing, then why not send in an article. WAG (Whitechapel Anarchist Group) are finally returning to the streets after setting out our election strategy last Sunday. Since [...]
2010 International Stay Out Of Jail Year
As many comrades know 2010 is International Stay Out Of Jail Year. Here at Freedom we are proud to do our part by publishing this short guide to avoiding incarceration. Globally over nine million people are in prison and not one of them likes it. We can’t guarantee anything but following these simple points will [...]
Publishing News: Breaking Free
Freedom Press is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of the infamous, and incendiary, Tintin ‘graphic novel’.
Originally published in the 1980′s during the dark years of Thatcher’s Britain…cont
Terror legislation in turmoil
European court rules UK stop and search terrorism law is illegal Two activists have won a landmark victory in the European courts over the UK police’s use of the controversial anti-terrorism laws to stop and search political activists. On Tuesday 12th January Pennie Quinton and Kevin Gillan won their case against the Metropolitan Police in [...]
Royal Mail Honours Anarchist Artist
Paul Cannell, the artist responsible for the artwork of Primal Scream’s classic 1990s album Screamadelica, has had the image commemorated on a new set of Royal Mail stamps. The Post Office has chosen ten album covers as part of a ‘design classics’ series acknowledging the artistic merit of record sleeves that are as culturally significant [...]
Secondhand Books
We are always looking for donations of secondhand books to help finance the paper and keep anarchist classics in print…
