Sam Skelt
@samskelt.bsky.social
Anarchist | Journalist | Metalhead | Nerd
UK Editor for Freedom Press
@freedompress.bsky.social
UK Editor for Freedom Press
@freedompress.bsky.social
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
Feels like the gov straight up saying "hey, it's not like you need freedom ALL the time", is the bit history teachers highlight in the text book as a key moment... 🤷♂️
October 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Feels like the gov straight up saying "hey, it's not like you need freedom ALL the time", is the bit history teachers highlight in the text book as a key moment... 🤷♂️
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Sad not to be able to have the London Anarchist Bookfair in East London this year, but looks like they have a cracking venue for September 20th!
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Sad not to be able to have the London Anarchist Bookfair in East London this year, but looks like they have a cracking venue for September 20th!
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The Palestine Action ban ended the distribution of the documentary by @rainbow-collective.bsky.social , "To Kill A War Machine". One of the film's exec producers persuaded their MP to ask the Home Office a question: had it considered the broader implications of the ban for journalistic expression?
July 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Palestine Action ban ended the distribution of the documentary by @rainbow-collective.bsky.social , "To Kill A War Machine". One of the film's exec producers persuaded their MP to ask the Home Office a question: had it considered the broader implications of the ban for journalistic expression?
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The newspaper of record for the capitalist class comes out strongly against genocide, or in more words "a vengeful attack .... to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society".
The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us
July 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The newspaper of record for the capitalist class comes out strongly against genocide, or in more words "a vengeful attack .... to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society".
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Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
July 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
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Trans people have always been at the heart of resistance and class struggle—from Stonewall to today’s fights for prison abolition, migrant justice, and mutual aid. Gender freedom is not separate from these struggles—it’s part of the same fight.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/28/t...
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Trans+ Pride 2025: Our bodies, our freedom - Freedom News
This year’s event in London saw more than 100,000 take to the streets ~ Blade Runner ~ Building on last year’s momentum of the world’s largest ever Trans+ protest, the march on Saturday (26 July) is o...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Trans people have always been at the heart of resistance and class struggle—from Stonewall to today’s fights for prison abolition, migrant justice, and mutual aid. Gender freedom is not separate from these struggles—it’s part of the same fight.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/28/t...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/28/t...
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Unlike previous far-right eruptions in Britain—see for example Bradford in 2001 and Dover in 2016, today’s racist outrage is more rapidly mobilised, digitally coordinated, and openly backed by political forces whipping up nationalist tension.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/29/f...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/29/f...
Fascist agitation meets resistance in the streets - Freedom News
This summer, an emboldened far right is repackaging racist outrages as ‘local issues’—and the mainstream media is playing along ~ Blade Runner ~ Hundreds turned out to counter a fash protest in Epping Forest on Sunday 27 July, mobilised by Stand Up To Racism and local trade unions and joined by grassroots antifascists. Police, also in the
freedomnews.org.uk
July 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Unlike previous far-right eruptions in Britain—see for example Bradford in 2001 and Dover in 2016, today’s racist outrage is more rapidly mobilised, digitally coordinated, and openly backed by political forces whipping up nationalist tension.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/29/f...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/29/f...
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The HR-ification of British politics that Starmerism represents is the apotheosis of an unthinking, uncritical, middle-class technocratic centrism which sees those making accusations as worse than those accused.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/25/a...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/25/a...
Authoritarianism with a LinkedIn profile - Freedom News
The arrest of Audrey White starkly illustrates the bankruptcy of mainstream politics in Britain ~ punkacademic ~ Many people on Merseyside know Audrey White: a veteran left-wing activist of decades’ s...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The HR-ification of British politics that Starmerism represents is the apotheosis of an unthinking, uncritical, middle-class technocratic centrism which sees those making accusations as worse than those accused.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/25/a...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/25/a...
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Ozzy's emotional lyrics evoke the dread of nuclear annihilation, and the betrayal and lies of political leaders. While he only had a simplistic, surface level understanding of politics, what made Ozzy appealing is his raw honesty—even in its incoherence.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/23/o...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/23/o...
Ozzy Osbourne: Sincere, flawed, and unforgettable - Freedom News
While more of a doom preacher than a political ideologue, the themes of war, mental health, and social decay remained a constant in his work ~ Stanton Cree ~ Ozzy Osbourne, heavy metal’s “Prince of Da...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ozzy's emotional lyrics evoke the dread of nuclear annihilation, and the betrayal and lies of political leaders. While he only had a simplistic, surface level understanding of politics, what made Ozzy appealing is his raw honesty—even in its incoherence.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/23/o...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/23/o...
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Blockade targets factory boasting that it provides parts for “tanks and submarines” as well as military jets used by Israel. Protesters say the "most effective action we can take is to directly halt the activities of this factory and disrupt the supply chain”.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/22/s...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/22/s...
Sheffield activists blockade arms factory - Freedom News
Forged Solutions produce parts for Israeli F-35 fighter jets ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Sheffield group Stop Arming Israel says its activists early this morning (22 July) blockaded weapons parts manufacturer ...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Blockade targets factory boasting that it provides parts for “tanks and submarines” as well as military jets used by Israel. Protesters say the "most effective action we can take is to directly halt the activities of this factory and disrupt the supply chain”.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/22/s...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/22/s...
Assumed that if the drugs couldn't kill the prince of darkness, nothing would... At least he got one hell of a send off.
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You Can't Kill Rock And Roll
YouTube video by Classic Rock Machine
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July 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Assumed that if the drugs couldn't kill the prince of darkness, nothing would... At least he got one hell of a send off.
youtu.be/6eeYSSel9ww?...
youtu.be/6eeYSSel9ww?...
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Excitement at an independent Labour alternative, or a Democratic-Socialist NYC mayoral candidate, is understandable. Still, history warns that office-holders promising change from within will be absorbed by the system’s self-preserving logic.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/09/h...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/09/h...
Hopeful highs and electoral lows - Freedom News
True change won’t come from the ballot but from sustained, people-powered movements ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ Two recent developments have jolted voters out of despair on both sides of the Atlantic: Zohran M...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Excitement at an independent Labour alternative, or a Democratic-Socialist NYC mayoral candidate, is understandable. Still, history warns that office-holders promising change from within will be absorbed by the system’s self-preserving logic.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/09/h...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/09/h...
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Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence? A piece by Netpol's Campaigns Coordinator for @freedompress.bsky.social freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/08/w...
Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence? - Freedom News
The proscription is part of a wider push to stifle dissent in an increasingly authoritarian Britain ~ Kevin Blowe ~ The repression of political dissent in Britain has been escalating for years: first ...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence? A piece by Netpol's Campaigns Coordinator for @freedompress.bsky.social freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/08/w...
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Left the court to find a huge demonstration outside!
July 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Left the court to find a huge demonstration outside!
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We have been conditioned to accept the idea that any physical resistance is morally questionable. The irony is that the government is condemning moral support for militant action, while it actively remilitarises and sells weapons abroad.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/04/v...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/04/v...
Vilifying the Vylans or: How I learned to stop censoring and call for death to the BBC - Freedom News
The clumsy attempt to silence artists opposing genocide only makes their message louder ~ Stanton Cree ~ Over the last week I found myself in the interesting position of having to navigate the British...
freedomnews.org.uk
July 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We have been conditioned to accept the idea that any physical resistance is morally questionable. The irony is that the government is condemning moral support for militant action, while it actively remilitarises and sells weapons abroad.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/04/v...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/04/v...
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At the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the Palestine Action hearing. Court 72 is full and the overflow court is too
July 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
At the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the Palestine Action hearing. Court 72 is full and the overflow court is too
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Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) is not terrorism.
The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
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The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
/1
July 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) is not terrorism.
The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
/1
The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
/1
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A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
Who decides what’s ‘hate speech’ and what’s dissent?
A single Glastonbury chant shattered the illusion of free speech, exposing Britain's fragile moral panic machine
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
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Unapologetic in tone, the programme includes interviews with members and supporters, who talk about their motivations, strategies and how State repression has ramped up since the start of Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/f...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/f...
Film Review: To Kill A War Machine - Freedom News
This lucid and passionate documentary about Palestine Action is well worth viewing before Starmer’s “social democrats” censor it ~ Rob Ray ~ I can certainly see why the makers of To Kill A War Machine...
freedomnews.org.uk
June 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Unapologetic in tone, the programme includes interviews with members and supporters, who talk about their motivations, strategies and how State repression has ramped up since the start of Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/f...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/f...
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Throwing paint into jet engines is symbolic, but the threat the State responds to is the potential for replication. If these tactics go unchecked, they might signal a broader refusal: permission-less revolt, viral sabotage, and the spread of generalised dissent.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/p...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/p...
Palestine Action proscription: Criminalising effectiveness - Freedom News
The proposed ban, rooted in colonial counter-insurgency law, could end up demystifying direct action and increasing public resolve ~ Blade Runner ~ This week, the UK Parliament is expected to approve ...
freedomnews.org.uk
June 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Throwing paint into jet engines is symbolic, but the threat the State responds to is the potential for replication. If these tactics go unchecked, they might signal a broader refusal: permission-less revolt, viral sabotage, and the spread of generalised dissent.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/p...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/30/p...
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Did’s work is timely, incisive and in many ways unique – while there are more left gaming commentators than there used to be, it’s still not even close to enjoying the interest levels of say, television or music.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/29/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/29/b...
Book review: Everything To Play For - Freedom News
Marijam Did’s sharply-observed and well researched dive into the politics of gaming fills a major gap in how the Left has approached the subject ~ Rob Ray ~ A distinction often made by progressives in...
freedomnews.org.uk
June 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Did’s work is timely, incisive and in many ways unique – while there are more left gaming commentators than there used to be, it’s still not even close to enjoying the interest levels of say, television or music.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/29/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/29/b...