Freedom

Interviews with anarchists concerning the Yellow Vests movement

November 11th: What follows is an edited version of a brochure written in French and translated into several languages.
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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 [s…

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 las…

The Anarchist Big Issue

October 17th: If you know, then you know.

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,…

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 …

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 …

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…

The Social Centre Bulletin: GAS and bookfairs

August 14th: Is there really anywhere else quite like a good social centre?

Sex work: A guide for activism

August 11th: Anarchists through history have often been at the margins of society, associated with criminality and other unacceptable categories.

Morrissey isn’t senile, he’s always been a racist

August 4th: CW: racism “Bengali in Platforms”, “England for the English”, “Asian Rut”, and “This is Not Your Country” are quotes you’d expect…

The 11th Congress of the IFA

August 3rd: The end of last month saw the 11th Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations, which co-ordinates social anarchist organisations across…