Interviews
Watching the far right
February 8th: ~ Anti-fascist update with Alex Robert ~ What can you tell us about activist monitoring of the far right?
“Stalinism is a Marxist invention to save Lenin and Trotsky”
January 8th: Ignacio de Llorens has just published the first biography of the Russian anarchist Volin, a key figure in the creation of the first soviet and late…
Holding back the police state: Interview with Kate Wilson
June 27th: Fifteen years on, one of the women who blew the lid off the Spycops scandal talks to Freedom about her political insights — and what the Unde…
Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone
June 1st: The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all.
Leila Al-Shami: “The future of Syria will be decided by the Syrians and nobody else”
December 18th: We are still in the early days of the regime’s collapse, but Syrians are already organising themselves ~ From Lundi Matin via Autonomies ~ Leila …
“You can actually see this ‘far right international’ taking shape”
November 10th: Grzegorz Piotrowski discusses far right power and its international networking and funding ~ Uri Gordon ~ The far right agenda has never been so po…
Malcolm Archibald: 50 years of Black Cat Press
October 31st: In this interview, the founder of Edmonton’s anarchist publishing house looks back on its legacy ~ Sean Patterson ~ For the past five decades…
“People are disillusioned, they believe Lebanon’s fate is corruption and war”
October 15th: Interview with Lebanese activist Maroun, an active participant in the 2019 popular uprising in Lebanon ~ From Aftoleksi ~ Let’s pick up the t…
Athens: La Zone, a new libertarian space in Exarcheia
October 14th: “Steeped in history and struggles, this neighbourhood belongs to its inhabitants and occupants”, say founders Eva and Nicolas ~ Patrick…
Cowley Club Interview: “Every community can benefit from a social centre”
October 9th: One of UK’s longest running social centres, the Cowley Club is Brighton is structured as a members-run co-operative ~ Interviewed by Zosia Brom ~…
How Sweden’s oldest anarchist paper survived so long
August 31st: Printed four times a year, Brand [‘fire’] has been published in Sweden since 1898.
Not just sex: Talking about Alex Comfort with Eric Laursen
August 30th: When I discovered the Freedom Press collection of Alex Comfort’s anarchist and anti-militarist writings, I’d already known him for 15 y…
Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross
August 30th: For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long hist…
“We were disruptors, creativity was our action and rebellion”
August 1st: The Grey Organisation’s escapades in Thatcherite Britain let the radical underground bleed over into the art world
“No deals with the henchmen of the capitalist state”
June 12th: Interview with G20 defendant Gabi Müller from Berlin
