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The end of UK coal power: Community action’s quiet victory
October 1st: Site occupations have been a significant tactic in slowing or stopping new coal mines and power stations ~ From Coal Action Network ~ Smoke filled …
Radical reprint: War arrived, and with it the anarchists despaired
September 29th: By the time Freedom‘s September issue hit the streets in 1914 the disaster that was to become known as World War One was already underway, an…
Australia’s forgotten global anarchist
September 27th: Jack Andrews was Australia’s leading proponent of communist-anarchism and a key figure in the international anarchist movement ~ Tom Goyens ~ Bor…
Viktar ‘Mao’ Žarkievič (1973-2024) — Belarusian punk legend
September 24th: The frontman of Hate To State and Chaliera died less than two years after a stint of political imprisonment ~ from Naša Niva ~ Viktar became inter…
Blackbird: A howl of protest from Hong Kong anarchists
September 24th: The indie band mixed diverse musical styles with an anti-establishment agenda ~ Levon Kwok ~ In Hong Kong, recent events such as the 2019 Ant…
The herbal solidarity project resisting state oppression
September 22nd: Freedom profiles organiser Nicole Rose, a longtime campaigner for animal rights, the environment, solidarity with political prisoners, migrants and…
The life, death, and resurrection of the Nestor Makhno monument
September 20th: Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the monument has become a symbol of defiance, identity, and hope ~ Sean Patterson ~ The monument to the worl…
Report from Freedom Fighters 16
September 18th: The anti-fascist combat sports tournament took place in Poznań, Poland ~ Czech Anarchist Federation members ~ “You give a front, back, shove…
Fire and passion: The life of Ukrainian anarchist Maria Nikiforova
September 17th: On the anniversary of Maria Nikiforova’s execution at the hands of the White Army on September 17, 1919, we present a translation of Anatoly Dubo…
For the advent of a new libertarian mythology
September 10th: Vicente Guedero makes the case for a renewal of an anarchist mythos, a thread of story and imagination for the future that can inspire and challeng…
The T’í Bird
September 6th: From Chiapas, a tale about warnings, consequences and denial It was at pozol time.
How Sweden’s oldest anarchist paper survived so long
August 31st: Printed four times a year, Brand [‘fire’] has been published in Sweden since 1898.
Not just sex: Talking about Alex Comfort with Eric Laursen
August 30th: When I discovered the Freedom Press collection of Alex Comfort’s anarchist and anti-militarist writings, I’d already known him for 15 y…
Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross
August 30th: For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long hist…
The circled A at 60 part three: The true story
August 28th: The circled A is a symbol so widespread, so widely recognised and disseminated that it has come to be taken as a traditional symbol of anarchism, s…
