Freedom

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 �…

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…

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 …

Chile students protest education cuts and policed schools

June 5th: Far-right Kast government is tightening repression of students while eliminating support funds ~ La Zarzamora ~ On June 3rd, massive student marche…

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…

Remembering Alexander Berkman

June 28th: 90 years since the death of the great Russian-American anarchist ~ Frank Jacob ~ On 28 June, 1936, Alexander Berkman ended his life.

Does Max Stirner lie headless in his grave?

June 26th: The incredible story of a skull — and a Berlin landmark that survived Nazism and the Cold War ~ Maurice Schuhman ~ In 2006, in response to my…

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?

Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable

June 23rd: The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…