Features
The threat to half a century of equality and employment rights
October 25th: Equality and workers’ rights in the UK have been hard won over many generations - and enacted under governments of different political colours [see appendix 1 of attached report] - but are now under serious and imminent threat.
Notes from the US
October 20th: Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks.
Wildcat and the Egghead: The life of Donald Rooum
October 14th: It shouldn’t really be me writing this obituary of Donald Rooum the anarchist and his time with Freedom Press, as I knew him for a mere 17 years, a relative drop in the ocean of his experiences.
Poor, but not forgotten! The remembering of a Bristol workhouse
October 9th: Back in 2012, some historians from the Bristol Radical History Group (BRH) were sinking a couple of shandies, and pouring over old ordnance survey maps.
How Johnson’s stop and search expansion will hurt BME communities
September 16th: Earlier this month, Boris Johnson revealed the next string to his crime-fighting bow; a country-wide extension to Stop-and-Search procedures.
Squatters Digest: To our friends, and former room-mates
September 2nd: Summer is waning, holidays have been had, and so we all go back to the grindstone — and by grindstone I mean opening new squats.
Sister not Cister: a fight to be safe
August 24th: The issue of trans rights is one which has caused enormous upheaval across the left, including the anarchist movement.
Climate is class war — what next for green activism?
August 18th: An alliance of non-hierarchical groups formed over the last few months, the Green Anticapitalist Front is attempting to provide a link between the extensive anarchist experience of green direct action and the latest wave of climate change activism.
Is genocide denial anti-imperialist now? How tankies are taking over leftbook and the London student scene
August 15th: Picture a British second-year Sociology student holding a Socialist Worker’s Party placard and shouting “hands-off DPRK” outside your student halls (that image in your head, he’s male and wearing cargo shorts, right?
