History
Radical Reprint: Remembering the Poll Tax revolt
April 5th: Thirty-six years on, Freedom revisits the 1990 Poll Tax riots and considers their legacy ~ punkacademic ~ For folks of a certain age (me), the …
“Stalinism is a Marxist invention to save Lenin and Trotsky”
January 8th: Ignacio de Llorens has just published the first biography of the Russian anarchist Volin, a key figure in the creation of the first soviet and late…
Bakunin versus Marx
December 26th: In the persons of these two revolutionaries, two distinct projects clashed within the First International ~ Carlos Taibo ~ There are more elements …
Remembering Joe Hill
November 19th: The legendary Wobbly and songwriter, executed 110 years ago, was celebrated worldwide for his resilience and humour ~ Owen Clayton ~ Born Joseph Em…
Book review: Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
November 5th: A principled anarchist who faced death with bravery, Fumiko Kaneko is a model of unwavering defiance in the face of overwhelming odds ~ Jay Arachni…
Radical Reprint: Against Armageddon
October 26th: With American nukes back in Britain, Freedom’s editorial at the height of the cold war could as well have been written today ~ punkacademic …
Two different paths to world peace?
September 7th: Erich Mühsam and Bertha von Suttner, anarchist antimilitarism and organised pacifism ~ Bernd Drücke, ZivilCourage ~ The Civil Courage editorial t…
A cautionary tale from my Russian anarchist great-grandfather
August 27th: On the danger of sacrificing principle for pragmatism ~ George Askaroff ~ Originally published 22 October 2024 When faced with substantial external…
The adventures of G. P. Maximoff
August 22nd: How the Russian anarcho-syndicalist became a political journalist, ended up in the Red Army, and helped organise Kropotkin’s funeral ~ Nikolai Ge…
“All of a sudden the streets were ablaze”: Nikos Romanos and legacy of the Greek revolt
August 20th: The anarchist’s recent arrest continues a long story: ten years ago today, his prison hunger strike brought the country to the edge of insurr…
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…
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 …
“Let us become beautiful ourselves”: Élisée Reclus on vegetarianism, anarchism, and colonial violence
July 5th: The great geographer and theorist of anarchist communism was part of a radical milieu that engaged a wide range of social issues, from capitalism a…
Elisée Reclus: 5 levels of social-ecological practice
July 5th: His compelling and realistic revolutionary vision shows the preconditions for a liberated world ~ John P Clark ~ Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) was one…
Élisée Reclus on anarchy and nature
July 4th: For the great anarchist geographer, anarchy was at play in every natural relationship grounded in solidarity ~ Fabio Carnevali ~ Reclus was the ana…
