Freedom

Struggling for Our Families and Our Lives

September 13th: When we’re deciding whether or not to have children, where and how to bring them up, when, and with whom, we’re influenced by social forces whi…

France: Fighting under the state of emergency

September 2nd: There have been a range of conversations in recent months regarding the situation in France — for example the consequences of jihadist attacks, …

The struggle against Google in Berlin

September 1st: Earlier this year Google rocked up to Kreuzberg district in Berlin with plans for a swanky new Google Campus.

Brutality of France’s police has precedent

August 21st: This article was originally written for Harz Labour, a journal published by comrades involved in autonomous struggles in the West of France.

Teaching freedom: Thoughts on an anarchist education

August 10th: Nearly everyone from across the political spectrum can agree that our current public education system in america is not ideal.

LCAP: A decade of direct action

July 19th: Based on a “direct action casework” model of community organising pioneered in Ontario, Canada in the 1990s, the London Coalition Against Pover…

Bread and blood: Living in an industry town

July 4th: Jamie O’Brien tells his story of growing up surrounded by industry and injury in the Welsh steel town of Port Talbot…

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Sister Uncut: A look at Bristol

June 20th: Sisters Uncut in Bristol have been carrying out protests against cuts and closures.

Why beer is in a bad State

June 18th: In this special feature written for the Organise Issue 88, a member of the Anarchist Federation looks into the historic consequences of State inte…

When your neighbour is your jailer

May 10th: In 2012 Theresa May announced the creation of the “hostile environment” for “illegal migrants.”

Why I shut down Britain’s biggest opencast coal mine

April 23rd: Reclaim The Power and Earth First!

Anarchist Haringey: Brief radical history of a London borough

April 22nd: I guess Tottenham is most known for its riots in 1985 and 2011.

View from the floor: A supermarket worker on organising and retaking stolen life

April 4th: In this piece from the shop floor, a supermarket worker talks about their initial feeling of isolation and slow making of links with others on the …

Anarchism and the bookshop trade

April 2nd: Other than the London Anarchist Bookfair and a few smaller regional book fairs — Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield for example — there are few pla…

Democracy and the NHS

March 20th: The mythology regarding the 1945-51 Labour governments dies hard on the left, particularly in the era of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour which often sees …