History
Anarchism and the 1945 elections
November 22nd: Following a question posed by Labour supporters about anarchist responses to the policy proposals of what became the Attlee Labour government, belo…
Poor, but not forgotten! The remembering of a Bristol workhouse
October 9th: Back in 2012, some historians from the Bristol Radical History Group (BRH) were sinking a couple of shandies, and pouring over old ordnance survey …
Pioneers of anarchism: Varlam Cherkezishvili (Tcherkesoff)
July 27th: Lesser-known of two “anarchist princes” exiled to London in the 1890s (the other being Peter Kropotkin), Cherkezishvili (Warlaam Tcherk…
Pioneers of British anarchism: Alfred Marsh
July 12th: From 1895-1913 Alfred Marsh was editor of Freedom when it was the only anarchist paper to survive the collapse of the movement in Britain at the tu…
Pioneers of British anarchism: Edward Carpenter
June 28th: Dublin Pride is tomorrow, and for this Pride season we note the 90th anniversary of the death of Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), a man who in the mo…
How we invaded Cuba
June 24th: On Friday 12 July 1963, anarchists invaded the Cuban Embassy in London.
Pioneers of British Anarchism: George Barrett
June 13th: To mark the launch of new Freedom Press title Our Masters Are Helpless, we will be publishing a number of historic reprints about historic anarchis…
Memorandum of imperialism: 1713, when Europe abandoned the Catalans
May 10th: Half Europe authorized, three centuries ago, to dismantle a crown with more than five centuries of history, in exchange for ending a war for the co…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
April 25th: Who were the most dedicated, active, and long-suffering revolutionaries in Czarist Russia?
Diving into our early syndicalist histories
April 20th: It is a standard cliché of Marxist attacks on anarchism to contrast “individualistic” anarchism with “collectivist” syndicalism.
A tribute to David Nicoll (1859-1919)
March 30th: In March 2019 it’s a hundred years since the death of David Nicoll, anarchist speaker, writer, editor, poet and activist.
Images and Mirages of the Paris Commune and the Pétroleuses
March 21st: Today, Paris and other French urban zones see the demonstrations of the gilets jaunes, organised in part through new media.
A-Infos: The original anarchist newswire
January 9th: At around the same time as Schnews was setting up its soon to be famous freesheet in 1994, before the advent of modern social media, a group of ana…
Removal of guilt
October 2nd: Anthony Weaver looks over L G Lennhoff’s book Exceptional Children. Weaver lectured in education at Whitelands, one of the teacher training …
Culture and Community
September 2nd: Nicholas Walter writes on Raymond Williams and his key literary contribution to the New Left.
