Freedom

The story of A-infos

December 22nd: This year is the 30th anniversary of A-infos—the multilingual news clearing-house that pioneered anarchist publishing on the web ~ Alisa-Ece …

Radical Reprint: The frustration of Leonard Motler

December 15th: A fierce working class propagandist, Motler couldn’t stand the stilted, esoteric tones of many anarchist and socialist writers – and wa…

Report from Porto Alegre Anarchist bookfair

December 11th: Keeping the flame of anarchist agitation alive and spreading throughout the city, meetings between anti-authoritarian individuals and those eager f…

Anarch-iversaries: Miners’ strike and the Carnival Against Capital

December 8th: Looking back to two events that shaped the last decades’ radical history ~ Scott Harris ~ We can’t let this year pass without tributes for …

The lie of a bloodthirsty empire

December 5th: Political artists Andrei Molodkin and Santiago Sierra, and Wikileaks ambassador Joseph Farrell, talk to A/POLITICAL about the sham of Western liber…

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…