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The 2023 Anarchist Bookfairs List

March 16th: Freedom's annual roundup of events from radical booksellers around Britain and Ireland.

A moment of memory for Anna Campbell

March 15th: It has been five years to the day since a loved and respected anarchist fell in defence of the Kurdish revolution.

Notes from US: The bureaucratic apocalypse

March 14th: From our US correspondent: Racism Republicans throughout the United States have the wind behind them in their supremacist agendas nationally in Was…

A letter of love to the ASS

March 12th: I don’t think we are just legal.

Voices from the front

March 9th: Internation Women’s Day symbolizes freedom, a day that motivates us to fight, a day when the voices of feminists can be heard by millions of …

Fortifying setts against badger baiters

March 4th: At first glance of a badger sett covered in steel wire mesh and belting, it is easy to presume that its residents are victims of some form of perse…

Action report from a mega-prison blockade

February 28th: Just under a month ago, an autonomous group of activists blockaded Kier’s latest mega-prison construction site at HMP Full Sutton, costing the co…

Notes from the US: Break from reality

February 16th: Freedom’s US correspondent rounds up the past month.

Punk Kaf the early years

February 15th: Kaf came from the isle of Wight, and like most of us born in the early sixties she fell in love with punk rock as soon as she became aware of it, w…

Tristan da Cunha: The utopia that worked

February 8th: When I was a teenage frequenter of espresso bars the arguments about ‘anarchy – would it work’ enlivened the wait for the bus hom…

The Tsar shivered, but not from the cold.

February 5th: In the first weeks of 1913 Russian revolutionary activity, never truly suppressed for all the violence and vindictiveness of the regime, burst once…

Prison Column: From an environmental prisoner

January 30th: My final bit of bird took me to HMP Highdown, a C Cat resettlement prison – one of the capital’s satellite jails.

Ian Bone and the people’s republic of Hackney

January 29th: Rob Ray talks to Ian Bone of Class War and Anarchy in the UK fame about his experiences of Hackney during the anti-Poll Tax campaign.

Gather Communards: an update on A Commune in the North

January 27th: Back in May, 2022, I described how LeedsCath’s dream for A Commune in the North (ACitN) was slowly being brought to fruition by a band of dedicat…

Review: Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy

January 26th: Author: Sophie Scott-BrownColin Ward and the Art of Everyday AnarchyRoutledgeISBN: 9780367569303 In Sophie Scott-Brown’s excellent, well-research…