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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…

Notes from the US

January 16th: Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the stories that have emerged over the last few weeks.

Rewoke Malatesta’s dream

January 13th: Staying in a 17th century building in the heart of Palermo was beautiful, eating pizzas and pasta alla Norma was delicious and climbing Mount Etna …

Prison Column: From an environmental prisoner

January 12th: Freedom continues its regular prison column with an update from Jan Goodey who is currently serving a six-month sentence for blocking the M25 with …

Fuel for thought: 1913’s taxi strike

January 8th: The tech industry loves to present itself as “disrupting” industries with innovations such as online ordering of deliveries, or driver …

The Black Book of Pushbacks

January 7th: Freedom re-publishes a special report from in Are You Syrious?

Prison Column: Prisoners are human beings

January 5th: Freedom continues its new Prison Column with a perspective from Kev Thakrar, who is detained within the inhumane Close Supervision Centre (CSC) sys…

Climate change and migration

January 2nd: Global warming is changing the world.