Freedom

Sophia Kropotkin (and a trip to Hartlepool)

September 18th: Notes and an extract on the life of an under-researched figure of revolutionary Europe.

Notes from the US (August edition part 2)

August 30th: The last ‘Notes from the US’ dealt with the latest developments in the pandemic in detail.

32 people from Afghanistan are currently imprisoned by armed guards on Poland-Belarus border

August 22nd: In this episode of Freedom’s informal series “The Fuckeries of Poland“, we will discuss the plight of a group of people from Afgh…

The Met spychief who infiltrated Freedom Press: a memory

August 21st: Freedom, among many other left organisations, was targeted by the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) multiple times over the years, most notably by …

This border kills! One person dead and one feared missing at sea after shipwreck last Thursday

August 18th: Last Thursday an Eritrean man died after he was recovered from the Channel when the boat he and others were traveling to the UK on sank.

All of the legwork, none of the power

August 17th: Mutual aid is essentially a straightforward idea, or at least, it’s straightforward enough as we apply it at Mutual Aid Alnwick.

Why the abuse of benefit claimants is hurting all workers

August 11th: “I would have quit this job months ago, but I’d be sanctioned by the Jobcentre”.

It starts in schools- how young people are consistently failed as victims of discrimination and sexual assault, and how it carries into adulthood.

August 3rd: CW: descriptions of discrimination and sexual assault Featured in this article are quotes from a survey I conducted among peers about types of disc…

The Menshevik’s Pants: Es lebe die Freiheit!

July 26th: | CW: Contains a non-graphic instance of sexual assault | Dear Prisoner, “I fell in love – completely and with passionate sincerity – with th…

Review: Guide to Every City

July 15th: Writer: Efe Levent Artist: Alaa Alhassoun Guide to Every CityMangal MediaISBN: 6057034821 Guide to Every City is a thorough picture of the perenn…

Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable

July 8th: Amitav Gosh’s thesis in “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” could be summarized with the opening lines of…

Sterilisation: A Feminist Fight

July 5th: The first time I tried to get sterilised, I was 21.

The anarchists in Alicante

June 25th: Because of its geographical position by the Mediterranean and as a border town, people from Alicante have always been restless and turbulent.

The 2021 Anarchist Bookfairs List

June 24th: In 2020 real-life anarchist bookfairs were, sadly, largely out of the question and very little happened which wasn’t virtual, including in Du…

‘Movement building, community building’: the anarchist social centre in London

May 26th: Tucked away in a quiet corner of Elephant & Castle lies 56A Infoshop.