Features
Michelle Cruz Gonzales on staying punk and teaching lessons
October 19th: Since the 18th century, European and Western anarchists have been keenly interested in education.
People’s Infrastructures: the case of recuperated factory of VIOME
October 14th: Kostis Roussos, Vaggelis Vragoteris and Haris Malamidis write about a new paradigm of working in common: the case of VIOME, a factory in the outskirts of Thessaloniki.
Interview: Frank Fernandez on Cuban anarchism
October 7th: In 1999 Canadian author Larry Gambone talked to Fernandez, writer of the seminal book on Fidel Castro’s destruction of Cuba’s anarchist movement, about how the regime maintained itself and on libertarian struggles in the country. This article is taken from the May 15th 1999 issue of Freedom Newspaper, and elements are no longer relevant, but it offers
Book Extract: World War, and Freedom’s nadir
September 20th: When the Great War broke out in 1914 most anarchists took their customary anti-militarist position, but the conflict also led to two of its heaviest hitters, Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin, throwing down in the pages of anarchist journal Freedom.
When abusers hijack the language of feminism
September 16th: This text was submitted by Forth Wave: London Feminist Activists.
Shiny objects at the Sparrows’ Nest
September 9th: This is the first of a possible infrequent series charting the work of the Sparrows’ Nest, an anarchist archive based in Nottingham which has built one of the best libraries of libertarian writing in Britain.
Developing an Anarchist Theory of Activism while Encountering Academic Thieves: an interview with scott crow
August 27th: Activist, anarchist, social commentator and political organizer, scott crow has over three decades of experience working across communities in order to foster liberation, autonomy, resistance to oppression, and self-direction.
Moving with the times … but not in step
August 2nd: Colin Ward critiques an interview from New Left Review of Alan Lovell, a regular Peace News writer in the 1960s and a member of the Committee of 100, by Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel, looking at how anarchism was perceived within the group.
Interview: Bristol Class War in the 1980s
July 30th: In this chat with a former Class War member, the Kate Sharpley Library discusses deindustrialisation, upheavals in the 1980s and thumbing the nose against Thatcher’s new normal.
