Freedom

Politics at all levels, by all means

November 7th: A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany ~ Jonathan Eibisch, Paradox-A ~ The promised turning point is clearly …

Trump’s victory: “Manipulable, Aggrieved, Gullible, Ahistorical”

November 6th: On the day after the election half — but only half — of Americans woke up sombre, stunned, sickened, and rightly very scared ~ Louis Fu…

A black woman Tory leader? Sure, as long as she’s batshit right-wing

November 4th: Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right…

Avoiding the ‘peaceful protest’ trap

November 3rd: As the far-right seizes ground, we need energised communities who can resist nationalism ~ Blade Runner ~ On October 26, another Tommy Robinson-led…

Frontex: 20 years of human rights violations

October 25th: The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which “assists” European countries in “border management, control and security”…

Milkshake Farage is a courtroom crybaby

October 23rd: We’ve really reached a low point when throwing a milkshake at a politician is not only brought to court, but prosecuted as “assault by beating�…

Notes from the US: Countdown to dictatorship?

October 16th: With the elections less than a month away, campaigning is dominated by filthy racism and climate denial ~ Louis Further ~ As ‘Notes from the …

Their internationalism, and ours

October 12th: Freedom’s winter edition highlights solidarity across borders, then and now Internationalism’s a twisty beast, prone to making fools of us …

Apocalypse war by proxy

October 11th: The Middle East war joins Ukraine as a permanent site of conflict, the new model for superpower dominance in the age of collapse ~ Blade Runner ~ I…

UK Workers Rights Bill and the spectre of capitalism

October 10th: The latest piece of legislation unveiled by our government emerges not as a beacon of hope, but as a harbinger of betrayal ~ Mark McEwan ~ As the s…

The Death of Leninism

October 10th: I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst t…

Clean energy can’t save us

October 10th: From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~  Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk abo…

How valuable are “British values”?

October 8th: A teacher and philosophical anarchist reflects on schools' imposed language - I have two confessions to make; First, I am part of the state system:…

The far right, the left, and the trap of electoral politics

October 7th: Bound to capitalism and electoralism, the statist left has nothing to offer during a period of crisis and restructuring — leaving the field t…

Migration, tourism, and the knot in English identity

October 3rd: Why are so many people against immigration while so many of them desperately want to leave?