History
Kropotkin: The Permanence of Society After the Revolution
February 20th: Continuing our multi-part series marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Peter Kropotkin, this October 1890 article considers how to avoid the curdling of a revolutionary mindset over the long haul of social change.A polymath mind: Kropotkin’s contributions to science
February 13th: While Peter Kropotkin is today best remembered as a leading anarchist thinker, one of the most persuasive advocates of anarchist communism, we should not forget that he was also a world-renown scientist, a geographer who revolutionised our understanding of the physical features of Asia.
Kropotkin: Act For Yourselves
February 6th: Continuing our multi-part series marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Peter Kropotkin, this January 1887 article is one of his better-known essays, and indeed lends the title of Freedom’s book of selected articles.
Kropotkin: Practical Questions
February 1st: Next up in our multi-part series marking the upcoming 100th anniversary of the death of Peter Kropotkin, this article July 1887 article considers the ways in which limited socialist visions are doomed to failure.
Kropotkin: What Revolution Means
January 30th: The first of a multi-part series marking the upcoming 100th anniversary of the death of famed anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin, this article was among his first for Freedom, written in November 1886.
Betraying Anarchy? Xin Shiji & The Four Elders
December 18th: Today there is often a great deal of discussion about what makes (or inversely, what does not make) someone an anarchist.
Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
November 30th: This is Part Two of the text Freedom published last week.
Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
November 23rd: I was approached by Jeff Stein to write up a summary of Abel Paz, La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española so that English-language readers might be made aware of the Spanish anarchist approach to Morocco during the civil war.
History: Bolsheviks shooting anarchists
October 29th: The following is the letter from Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman on the persecution of anarchists under the bolshevik rule in Soviet Russia.
History: the death of Terence MacSwiney
October 25th: The Lord Mayor of Cork died 100 years ago on October 25th 1920 after a 74 day hunger strike. Terence MacSwiney, a Sinn Fein MP and leading member of the Cork IRA Brigade, was arrested by British troops during a raid at Cork City Hall in August 1920.