History
The circled A at 60: The true story
April 19th: The circled A was invented in Paris in 1964 and reinvented in Milan in 1966
The circled A at 60: True and false
April 12th: Tomás Ibáñez debunks several myths about the famous anarchist symbol, which was created only in April 1964
Radical Reprint: The French Anarchist Conference
September 17th: One of the most useful aspects of sometimes dry reports from gatherings is the snapshot of otherwise amorphous movements — in this case, the Fren…
Radical Reprint: The Labour War in South Africa
August 20th: A historical tale in which South African miners strike while Herbert Gladstone fiddles.
Radical Reprint: The Land and the Labourer
July 23rd: The July 1913 issue of Freedom features a lengthy article hooked on a major strike of agricultural workers in Ormskirk
Radical Reprint: Image of an alternate past
June 25th: A speculative work by two prominent French anarcho-syndicalists, Emile Pouget and Emile Pataud, Syndicalism and the Co-operative Commonwealth (How …
Radical reprint: The Napoli revolt of 1913
March 20th: On a cold day in the wake of a war, starving Italian citizens wanted to put up a poster against raised tariffs but were told to hop it by the gover…
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…
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 …
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…
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 s…
