Freedom

Solidarity and Empathy in the Summer of 2017

August 8th: The idea that we are in competition with each other for resources is perhaps the most corrosive myth we’ve created.

The edge of precarity: Squatting in England and emergency crisis planning

July 25th: In recent decades squatting has been under near constant assault from a variety of ruling class actors.

G20: We won the battle, elites are winning the media war

July 24th: Indymedia Germany has, as with most other branches of the free media project, been ailing over the last few years (including its UK counterpart, wh…

Forget the Judge Led Inquiry – Grenfell Needs a People’s Inquiry

July 7th: The Grenfell Tower disaster shows British capitalism up for what it is.

Case Study: Organising in a community mental health team

July 3rd: A member of the Bristol Care Workers Network reflects on their experiences organising in healthcare.

Case study: Charity chugging in the north-west

June 26th: A Plan C member in Manchester writes as part of the group’s Worker Enquiry series of articles…

Grenfell: Because they were poor

June 19th: A member of the Anarchist Federation writes on guilt and the ever-rising death count in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire.

John Bull believers face a rude awakening

June 9th: Iain McKay writes on the collapse of the Tory economic plan and its dire “solutions” to the looming troubles of Brexit On every level T…

Anti-democratic values: Making the case for consensus

June 8th: In this essay written for the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium, Derek Wittorff argues that the left’s focus on democracy and a falling o…

Notes on the 2017 General Election Campaign

June 7th: In his latest column, Jon Bigger muses on one of the weirdest general election spectacles in living memory.

Case study: A campaign over insecure work

June 4th: Liverpool Solfed writes about its campaign against as the firm attempts to ape companies like Deliveroo and Uber in casualising jobs into a self-…

Anarchists analyse Brazil’s political earthquake

May 26th: In the following essay members of Coordinación Anarquista Brasileña, a member group of the Anarkismo network, analyses the series of mass protest…

Why I’m not voting – I represent myself

May 7th: Jon Bigger reflects on his experiences, as a voter, non-voter and even Class War candidate, with general elections Two years ago today (May 7th) I …

Venezuela: State Power — when the Left is the problem

April 17th: As protests rise once again on the streets of Caracas, we are witnessing a struggle between the conservative Venezuelan bourgeoisie removed from c…

Chile: Women and the pensions backlash

April 10th: Following a new wave of protests against Chile’s Pinochet-era privatised pensions system, María Carrasco of libertarian communist journal S…