Freedom

To just burn down the castle

July 1st: One hundred and fifty years after his death, Bakunin’s emphasis on freedom and action still holds force of purpose

The transatlantic war on freedom

June 29th: Moving a box of zines can now get you 30 years in Trump’s America, echoing the UK’s crackdown on protest ~ punkacademic ~ On Tuesday, w…

Victory for Prosfygika!

June 27th: Historical Athens squatting community saved from redevelopment after hunger strikes and popular campaign ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ The Prosfygika squatted…

EU votes to speed up deportations

June 22nd: Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…

The new Palmer Raids

June 29th: How Trump’s war on dissent borrows from America’s darkest playbook ~ Joel Sucher ~ History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes &…

Israeli academia “under command”

June 10th: Report exposes Israeli higher education’s collaboration with military and arms manufacturers ~ Nissi Peli ~ Israel’s deliberate and thoroug…

Marjane Satrapi and Iran: Dying of sadness

June 6th: A political homage to the author of Persepolis who passed away this week ~ Juan Cáspar ~ Editor’s note: We have [bracketed] two cases where …

The legacy of Mikhail Bakunin

July 1st: His social conflict analysis, naturalist materialism, and organisational dualism continue to inspire ~ Felipe Corrêa ~ Mikhail Bakunin (1814–187…

Mikhail Bakunin: A vital, overflowing life

July 1st: Marking 150 years since the death of the great revolutionary, whose vision of anarchism remains more relevant than ever ~ Nikolay Gerasimov ~ The p…

Alexander Berkman on prisons and abolition

June 28th: His arguments are no less salient in the face of contemporary threats ~ Søren Hough ~ We often think of Alexander Berkman as one of the preeminent…

Platform centenary: Two readings

June 30th: A hundred yeas since the publication of The Organisational Platform of the General Union of the Libertarian Communists, we offer two opposing views…

Don’t expect Burnham to take the boot off our necks

June 25th: Without serious pressure, our putative PM is unlikely to overturn any of his predecessor’s ridiculous terror accusations, expansions of sur…

Social media ban: Less freedom, more isolation

June 23rd: The government wants to lower the voting age, so why treat us like children?