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Shabana Mahmood defects to Reform UK

April 1st: Resigning Home Secretary to condemn PM and Labour “wokerati” for blocking harsher policing and immigration policy [satire ] ~ Scott Har…

Indonesia: Asia’s alternative football laboratory

March 29th: Indonesian alternative football has developed its own identity, but the influence of the experience of self-organised clubs in England is palpable …

Anarchist panic and the Greek State

March 22nd: ~ from Neil Middleton ~ The continuous expansion and ever more ridiculous implementation of anti-terrorist laws is a shared reality across many cou…

Johann Most: Behind the caricature

March 17th: The German-American anarchist, who died 120 years ago today, was a gifted writer and influential agitator ~ Tom Goyens ~ Johann Joseph Most died ar…

France: A militant marquee for party and protest

March 15th: The chap’ is an (almost) pay-as-you-can anarcho-radical-feminist project ~ The chapitoto team ~ In 2025, between Castres and Toulouse, a smal…

Rojava: “The solution is the decentralisation of power”

March 4th: Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus ~ Robert Krieg, Graswu…

Léo Malet: A fascination with illegalism 

March 3rd: The Parisian crime writer who died 30 years ago was a lifelong anarchist and remains popular to this day ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ The French anarchist…

‘New Phase in Oil Struggles’ - Freedom front page article, 29th August 1953

Radical Reprint: Iran and the empires

March 1st: A British- and American-sponsored coup in Iran caused widespread bloodshed in 1953 — then, as now, states are aggressors and people are victi…

Go film the police

February 22nd: One of the reasons for photographing and filming at protests is to document police brutality when it predictably comes ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ A…

Jules Durand: Anarchist docker of Le Havre

February 20th: Marking a century since the death of the successful strike organiser and tragic victim of the class judiciary ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ The French port…

Remembering Paul Avrich

February 16th: Twenty years have passed since the death of historian Paul Avrich on February 16, 2006, yet his influence on the study of American anarchism remain…

The resolve to leave this cage

February 13th: Iranian poet and film-maker Forough Farrokhzad articulated female subjectivity, desire and dissent ~ Bleart Thaçi ~ For generations of Iranian wom…

Watching the far right

February 8th: ~ Anti-fascist update with Alex Robert ~  What can you tell us about activist monitoring of the far right?

Book review: Anarcho-existentialist wisdom

February 3rd: Review of Julian Langer (2025), Noah’s Choice: On the Revolt of the Flesh, self-published ~ Ludos Strigos ~ I would not be surprised to find thi…

Radical Reprint: Who’s afraid of the A Word?

February 1st: The debate over the term ‘anarchism’ as an asset or liability rears its head in this comment piece from 1966 ~punkacademic~ Back in Feb…