History
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…
Sophia Kropotkin (and a trip to Hartlepool)
September 18th: Notes and an extract on the life of an under-researched figure of revolutionary Europe.
75 years since ‘the luxury squatters’ seized properties in West London
September 8th: On September 8th 1946, some 1500 men, women and children occupied properties in Kensington and Chelsea as part of the largest single direct action…
The kidnap of Alexander Haitoglou
May 25th: To mark Freedom Press’s fundraising campaign to publish A Normal Life, the autobiography of “Greek Robin Hood” Vassilis Palaiokostas, this pi…
Frank Leech: Why I went on Hunger Strike
April 11th: The following article by a wartime conscientious objector is taken from an April 1944 issue of War Commentary, brought out by the Freedom Group dur…
Freedom and the 1974 Miners’ Strike
March 23rd: Jack Saundrs looks over some recent additions to Freedom’s extensive digital archive, which draws together unique scans and mirrored works to…
International anarchist statement on the centenary of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising
March 7th: Today marks the 100th annviersary of the beginning of the Kronstadt uprising.
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 th…
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 shou…
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-know…
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 t…
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 w…
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.
