Features
Newport Radical Bookfair revived
November 28th: Stalls attract locals and visitors during Chartist Uprising celebrations ~ Shaun Featherstone ~ Earlier this month the first radical bookfair Newpo…
John Prescott: The Blairite bulldog who forgot the working class
November 21st: The former Deputy Prime Minister weaponised his northern roots and trade union affiliations to enable neoliberal Labour and its wars ~ Uri Gordon ~…
Book Review: Safety Through Solidarity
November 21st: Burley and Lorber’s project is both honourable and necessary, but why do they let Marxist antisemitism off the hook?
Radical Reprint: Conflict and class struggle
November 17th: The anarchist split over the Great War (WW1) burst into print in November 1914, with grave consequences ~ Rob Ray ~ One of the most famous articles…
The ruptures of militant anarchism in Brazil
November 15th: “Where we come from and where we are going”: a reflection on Brazilian anarchism, then and now ~ from O Amigo do Povo ~ Brazilian anarc…
Book review: Zerox Machine
November 5th: An absolute triumph of punk scholarship and alternative historiography ~ Jim Donaghey ~ Reading through this richly detailed overview of punk zines…
Education and autonomy in times of ecological collapse
October 27th: Zapatista education promotes a relationship with knowledge based on the needs and questions of students and communities ~ Ana Paula Morel, from…
Peter Kennard: “My art erupts from outrage”
October 17th: Now on show at Whitechapel Gallery, his work since the 1970s includes some of Britain’s most iconic images of resistance ~ Becky Haghpanah-Sh…
Athens: La Zone, a new libertarian space in Exarcheia
October 14th: “Steeped in history and struggles, this neighbourhood belongs to its inhabitants and occupants”, say founders Eva and Nicolas ~ Patrick…
The punk scene as a new proletariat
October 13th: In part 2 of “On the practices of radical punk” we meet Abbie Hoffman and discuss Maximum Rock’n’Roll and the uses of Do-It Yoursel…
Cowley Club Interview: “Every community can benefit from a social centre”
October 9th: One of UK’s longest running social centres, the Cowley Club is Brighton is structured as a members-run co-operative ~ Interviewed by Zosia Brom ~…
Neighbours as lifelines: The power of mutual aid in Asheville
October 8th: Activists in storm-ravaged communities talk about about solidarity and collective survival ~ Kelly Hayes ~ Last year, researchers at Tulane Univers…
Radical Reprint: Anarchism in China
October 6th: There is a very obvious article to reprint from the October 1914 issue of Freedom, which is precisely why I’m selecting a different one.
Searching for Utopia in “Megalopolis”
October 6th: Spoilers ahead: Did David Graeber really influence Francis Ford Coppola’s vision of the film?
On the practices of radical punk
October 4th: From shows in squats to militant action, punk shows the convergence between class consciousness, psychedelic consciousness, and consciousness-raisi…
