Freedom News

The Tsar shivered, but not from the cold.

February 5th: In the first weeks of 1913 Russian revolutionary activity, never truly suppressed for all the violence and vindictiveness of the regime, burst once again onto the public stage.

France and the anarchist general strike of 1912

December 11th: Much of the December 1912 issue of Freedom was given over to a celebration of its star writer Peter Kropotkin’s 70th birthday celebrations.

Long struggle: The IWA at 100

December 4th: Founded in 1922, the International Workers’ Association (IWA) is celebrating its centenary this month.

Syndicalism – a working-class conception of socialism

November 18th: Taking a look into the archives of Freedom in November 1912 as a wave of militant, non-hierarchical trade unionism reached its high water mark.

Tom Mann and the industrial union movement

October 16th: A legendary trade unionist and communist of his era, Mann (1856-1941) was by turns an inspirational and frustrating figure for the syndicalist and anarchist movements in Britain.

10 years of S144

September 1st: 10 years ago the government criminalised squatting in residential property, taking away the ability to make use of empty property best designed for living.

Let Anarchy Soar Perfect Okupas: 10 years of LASPO

September 1st: Let anarchy soar Perfect okupas Love all scum, piss off Landowning arseholes: Sitex property opened!

The Commune and the Balkans: The Case of Bulgaria

June 6th: If we are to try to identify some of the most important aspects of the history of the Balkans, we cannot but point out the persistent vision of a surprisingly consistent utopia…~Andrej Grubacic[efn_note] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrej-grubacic-don-t-mourn-balkanize#toc16[/efn_note] The Commune, as a political form, was a reoccurring theme within Bulgaria’s liberatory movement that fought against the Ottoman Empire, suggesting

50 years ago: The Trial of the Stoke Newington Eight

May 30th: The Angry Brigade was one of the most famous and controversial phenomenons of the 1970s.

70 years ago: Imperial greed on Africa’s west coast

January 7th: Amid the horrors of the Mau Mau uprising Britain’s malignant role in 1950s West and Southern Africa is less well covered, but it wasn’t entirely ignored by progressives, as today’s featured article from Freedom‘s January 5th issue of 1952 shows.