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Refugee crisis: violent push backs in the Balkans

March 4th: In spite of severe weather conditions, push backs of refugees in the Balkans continue.  Are You Syrious present the report on illegal push-bac…

Human aspect of refugee crisis: When can my life start again?

February 18th: This text is published with permission from Are You Syrious (AYS): a group of volunteers working with refugees across Europe.

Calais border, news after the May-Macron summit

January 31st: This text was contributed to Freedom News by a long-standing No Borders activist.

Chile: Lies, dam lies and a Mapuche activist murdered

January 30th: It has taken nearly a year-and-a-half of fighting the authorities, and a second autopsy, to confirm what the family of Macarena Valdés Muñoz alre…

Your home is at risk…

January 29th: Social housing is under attack from privatisation, gentrification, and straight up neglect.

Chris Cole on class and peace activism

January 9th: Chris Cole is most famous for his involvement in raids on warplanes in the 1990s, has been active at the heart of British peace activism for 30 yea…

Fortress Europe: a View From Its Eastern Border

January 3rd: European attention to the ongoing crisis of migration is mostly focused on the Mediterranean.

Wealth blinds our rulers to the truth about homelessness

December 29th: Recently the National Audit Office (NAO) published a study which was of surprise to no-one — notwithstanding the blustering pretend humbug of neo…

Frestonia and Me

December 15th: A former resident writes on their experience of the Free and Independent State of Frestonia, a unique 1977 rebellion in Kensington and Chelsea by a…

Stopping the Haringey Development Vehicle

December 8th: In common with estates and boroughs in city and town centres all over Britain, Haringey is facing a major redevelopment drive which threatens to gu…

Welcome to Partisan

November 29th: Manchester has been struggling along without a stable radical social centre since 2007, when The Basement was ruined by flooding, but that all chan…

A year through anarchist eyes: 1950

November 16th: Rob Ray takes a unique run through the pages of Freedom in 1950, a time when anarchism was in a pretty dire state, but was starting to gain tractio…

Brazil: Neoliberal drift and repression of popular movements

November 15th: José Luis Carretero Miramar writes on recent Brazilian state crackdowns against anarchists amid increasing fascist confidence, and how social move…

The positive self-organisation of South Essex

November 14th: Positive stories celebrating community self-organisation are a relative rarity in our modern cynical era, while Essex is often the butt of London j…

Saronic, the marine dump of development

October 28th: On September 10th, the tanker Agia Zoni II, sank into the Saronic Gulf. The ship dumped (according to the well-known shipowner Kountouri) about 2,…