Features
Football utopias: On and off the pitch with Republica and the Cowfolk
January 14th: Both teams share a unique friendship based on anti-fascist and activist priorities, providing a safe home for identities who don’t fit the typical sporting trajectory ~ Alice Hoole ~ The Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls (Cowfolk) and Republica Internationale were founded forty years ago in Bristol and Leeds.
Robert Paul Wolff (1933-2025)
January 13th: Famous for his philosophical anarchism, he was also a champion of Black liberation and anti-war movements ~ James Birmingham ~ Philosopher and professor of Afro-American studies Robert Paul Wolff passed away at the age of 91 on January 6, 2025.
Remembering Louise Michel: “Now I have only the revolution left”
January 9th: 120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905.
Haunting old ruins at the edges of Fortress Europe
January 5th: Following No Name Kitchen as they do vital solidarity work with migrants on the Bosnia-Croatia border ~ Ben Cowles ~ Klara, Alberto and I spent the whole day driving around the outskirts of town, sneaking into abandoned buildings that they believed refugees and migrants — or people on the move (PotM) to use a better
Book review: Woman, Life, Freedom
January 3rd: Directed by celebrated graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, this variety of insightful vignettes also leaves out minority voices ~ Rabihan Luleci ~ The current struggle for women in the Islamic Republic of Iran is approached through a variety of artistic styles in this book.
Feminism and anarchism in Brazil
December 23rd: Anarchist and libertarian feminism in Brazil was created as a revolutionary project for material independence from the “sink, kitchen, and bed” triad ~ Eloísa Benvenutti de Andrade, from Patos à Esquerda ~ Anarchist women in Brazil have, from the beginning, made a major contribution to identifying the feminine in the constitution of feminist thought as
The story of A-infos
December 22nd: This year is the 30th anniversary of A-infos—the multilingual news clearing-house that pioneered anarchist publishing on the web ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ A shift in global communication was underway in the 1990s, and as digital networks began to transform the dissemination of information there was a need for a decentralised, non-hierarchical platform to facilitate the
Radical Reprint: The frustration of Leonard Motler
December 15th: A fierce working class propagandist, Motler couldn’t stand the stilted, esoteric tones of many anarchist and socialist writers – and wasn’t shy in saying so ~ Rob Ray ~ Freedom was contacted, around this time last year, by a small production company interested in doing a documentary for the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust.
Report from Porto Alegre Anarchist bookfair
December 11th: Keeping the flame of anarchist agitation alive and spreading throughout the city, meetings between anti-authoritarian individuals and those eager for change, and distributing books and publications—we gathered in the hall of the Acadêmicos da Orgia Samba School ~ Anarchist News Agency ~ On the walls and outside of the hall in Porto Alegre, Brazil, banners
Anarch-iversaries: Miners’ strike and the Carnival Against Capital
December 8th: Looking back to two events that shaped the last decades’ radical history ~ Scott Harris ~ We can’t let this year pass without tributes for two big anniversaries in radical political history.
