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Freedom, August 2012

August 27th: August 2012 issue of Freedom The August 2012 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical bookshops or social centres.

‘Rehabilitation revolution’

August 15th: A brave new outsourced world?

Hacking in the seventies

August 14th: Hacking, phone taps and the anarchists ‘A Company of Bastards’ and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (this brief history of militant trade union phone hacking in the 70s was published in Freedom, 13th August 2011) Recent comment on the ethics of phone hacking and the media reminded me of our practices in the 1970s, during the

A Sideways Look: education

August 10th: (originally published in Freedom, May 2012) In all the opposition to education cuts and the ramping up of fees, adult education hasn’t had a lot of airtime.

Freedom Press public meeting

August 3rd: As you may or may not have already heard, Freedom Press is in some difficulty, both financial and in terms of volunteer labour – basically we need you.

Truth about the Olympics

July 24th: The brutal truth about the London Olympics Violence, cover-ups and dirty secrets litter the 2012 Games (article from Freedom, June 2012) Mike Wells has been covering the London 2012 Olympics as a photographer and reporter on the Games Monitor website since Stratford was confirmed as the site for Europe’s biggest building project.

Libertarian parenthood

July 19th: Even with the pressures of having children, there is a better way of bringing them up, says Steve McKee in this article from Freedom dated 17th April 2004 Are children a burden or a blessing?

The future of Freedom

July 19th: Now that we’re bust and what we’re going to do about it As many comrades are aware, Freedom has continued thanks to a significant donation in 2005.

Do the drugs work?

July 18th: Take the drugs but don’t let them take you for a fool – a look at the global drugs industry by Marie Jean in this article first published in Freedom, 1st May 2004 Hypocrisy is rife around the issue of drugs.

Freedom, July 2012

July 10th: July 2012 issue of Freedom The July 2012 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical bookshops or social centres.