BERLIN-BASED left-wing media collective Redfish announced this week that it was being forced to close down after six years of reporting on grassroots anti-capitalist campaigns.

The collective, set up in 2017, blamed “years of rampant censorship” and a European Union attack on freedom of speech for its demise.

In a statement, Redfish said that it had been the subject of a “relentless campaign of smears by mainstream media, academia and think tanks” and that “social media censorship and now state-sanctioned harassment have made it impossible for us to continue.”

The collective claimed that the attacks had been carried out in “close collaboration” with allied military institutions and are part of an EU project to silence voices that are supposedly “undermining the European project.”

Voices that publicly question the current political and socio-economic order in the West appear “no longer entitled to international and EU legal protection which covers the right to freedom of expression,” Redfish warned.

The collective said it was proud of everything it had achieved, including “growing an online community with over one million followers and pioneering unapologetically radical left-wing storytelling to a global audience.”