Freedom

Not again with the Burqa Ban?

June 10th: As Reform UK splits over a stale debate, Muslim women’s voices remain conspicuously absent ~ James Horton ~ Many had thought very little abou…

Starmer’s Big Idea: A militarised, impoverished Britain

June 6th: The UK Strategic Defence Review will only deliver security for arms companies—not anyone using a food bank ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Sometimes yo…

Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone

June 1st: The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all.

Kneecap and the realities of “Two-Tier Policing”

May 28th: The use of British state power against political expression is dangerously imbalanced ~ James Horton ~ Last week, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known by hi…

Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail

May 26th: Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem

Abolishing the family: A survivor’s perspective

May 20th: The family is marketed as a safe space, a place of love and mutual care, but this is not supported by the data—How do we bring our experience…

Notes from the US: Fervent embrace of dogma

May 14th: We can now see clearly how Trump/MAGA/Musk’s implementation of Project 2025 can legitimately be called fascist ~ Louis Further ~ With the usu…

Beyond binaries: Gender, law and the reproduction of power

May 13th: As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the …

Labour’s sweet little lies

May 12th: From destroying the environment to betraying the disabled, the government is running the same play—will people fall for it?

Our Power: Freedom on May Day

May 1st: Editorial from our summer issue, a rare all-colour one, out today with the theme of Our Power – looking at how anarchists and the working class c…

The Rich ‘Take Up Space’

April 26th: The offer of space tourism to rich women is a pastiche of feminism which acts only to showcase the shallowness of corporate liberalism ~ Sourdough …

Papal Accounts: Some thoughts on Pope Francis

April 22nd: From an anarchist perspective, Pope Francis was certainly not the worst of the men who have sat their elderly backsides on Papal thrones in living …

Notes from the US: Surprised? Maybe not

April 21st: Trump’s presidency is still not widely seen for the fascist coup that it is ~ Louis Further ~ Be honest and ignore your ‘scepticismR…

TERF Island: How could anyone celebrate the UK Supreme Court decision?

April 19th: The ones who want trans folks out of the public sphere will now feel emboldened to challenge us, to abuse us, to misgender us  ~ Kell w Farsh�…

How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

April 11th: Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state ~ Blade Runner ~ The UK is expanding its use of p…