Features
Southwark Spain Shop: anti-fascist shop in 1930s Walworth Road
January 5th: This text first appeared at Transpontine blog.
Don’t despair, organise!: an introduction to Cooperation Kentish Town
January 3rd: By 21 December, a week after a disastrous election for the left and a few days into the subsequent soul searching, everyone was suddenly talking ab…
Brains Kan: Norfolk’s anarchist rave revolution
January 2nd: “It was the first time we had ever dealt with a riot squad ...
Noj Giter-Granatsztajn: Belchatow’s anarchist tailor
December 31st: Noj Giter-Granatsztajn (aka Sznajder, or Noj Noj Lodzer) was born in 1886 in the central Polish town of Bełchatów.
Solidarity for West Papua is overdue
December 21st: “Those Papuans of yours are some 700,000 and living in the Stone Age” said John F Kennedy in 1963, as he approved an agreement to hand over con…
History: The rise and fall of the Knights of Labor
December 15th: Stephen Parfitt looks at the legendary US workers’ organisation from its founding in 1869 to its collapse in the 1890s and considers what les…
Syndicalism and the working class experience
December 7th: In this classic explainer of trade unionism without bureaucrats from 1952, Philip Sansom (pictured) considers the thinking behind anarcho-syndicali…
“Power anywhere where there’s people!” – 50 years since the FBI murdered Fred Hampton
December 4th: Fifty years ago to the day, Fred Hampton – the 21 year old deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party – was assassinated by the FBI and the Chi…
Travelling to the COP25 summit in Madrid? Make sure you know your rights
December 2nd: If you are planning to travel from Britain to protests at the United Nations COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, which begins next week, it …
Anarcho-Syndicalist Workers’ Revolution in Catalonia
December 1st: In an interview with world famous Dutch-Canadian journalist Pierre Van Paassen, Anarcho-Syndicalist leader and Spanish Loyalist g…
Interview: Juliusz Lewandowski, queer antifa artist
November 29th: "Right now, we fight in hell." As Poland’s oldest squat faces eviction, George F.
The Revolt in Iran
November 28th: There is open revolt in the Iran and for some reason and no one seems to be talking about it.
The Velvet Revolution: 30 years of freedom in which some of us are freer than others
November 25th: This month marks 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution: the wave of mass demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party…
Anarchism and the 1945 elections
November 22nd: Following a question posed by Labour supporters about anarchist responses to the policy proposals of what became the Attlee Labour government, belo…
Interview: Tomás Ibáñez on power and modern anarchy
November 16th: In this interview translated by the Autonomies collective, One of Spain’s most interesting modern thinkers on anarchism, Tomás Ibáñez, out…
