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Book review: Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues
August 15th: The Chicago Surrealist Franklin Rosemont tapped the subversive energy of popular culture ~ Ryan Bunnell ~ Since its inception, Surrealism has been …
Radical Reprint: The false dawns of electoral leftism
August 10th: The results of an election 80 years ago prompted arguments which have familiar, rhyming lines for our modern context ~ Rob Ray ~ At long last, afte…
The War Game: Still too real to broadcast?
August 8th: As we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film the BBC suppressed 20 years later is more relevant than ever ~ Bleart Thaçi ~ Sixty years have passe…
Octavio Alberola Suriñach (1928-2025)
July 27th: The lifelong CNT militant was part of the Cuban revolution and participated in physical resistance to Franco ~ Joselito ~ Octavio Alberola Suriñac…
Ozzy Osbourne: Sincere, flawed, and unforgettable
July 23rd: While more of a doom preacher than a political ideologue, the themes of war, mental health, and social decay remained a constant in his work ~ Stan…
You cannot arrest an Arsène Lupin!
July 15th: A tribute to Maurice Leblanc’s ‘gentleman thief’, an anarchistic cultural icon ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ On July 15, 1905, the first …
Radical Reprint: A defence against State overreach
July 13th: The great and good who had mobilised to fight against attacks on the anarchists’ right to free speech recognised its true threat was broader …
“Northern Lights” at 30
July 12th: Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds ~ Taib Hayat ~ …
Film Review: To Kill A War Machine
June 30th: This lucid and passionate documentary about Palestine Action is well worth viewing before Starmer’s “social democrats” censor it ~ Rob Ra…
Book review: Everything To Play For
June 29th: Marijam Did’s sharply-observed and well researched dive into the politics of gaming fills a major gap in how the Left has approached the subj…
Holding back the police state: Interview with Kate Wilson
June 27th: Fifteen years on, one of the women who blew the lid off the Spycops scandal talks to Freedom about her political insights — and what the Unde…
Red gyms: You’ll get a kick out of this
June 15th: Following a recent tourney, one member from a participating gym talks about the need for and increasing number of explicitly political self-defence…
Report from Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair
June 12th: The stalls, workshops, and after-party gig made for an event to be remembered ~ Don B ~ On Saturday (June 7th) the fourth annual Newcastle Ewan Bro…
Radical Reprint: Stalin’s ‘left’ turn
June 8th: With the Second World War coming to its conclusion it naturally left an undignified political scramble in its wake
Colin Jerwood R.I.P.
June 3rd: The Conflict frontman was one of the few who walked the punk walk as much as they talked it ~ Phil ~ Colin Jerwood, frontman and organiser of legen…
