Interviews
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 al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab are the authors of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, an important book in which they recounted the early years of the revolution and the
“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 powerful since the end of the second World War.
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, Black Cat Press (BCP) in Edmonton, Canada, has served as a local hub for the city’s radical community and as an important publisher of anarchist material.
“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 thread from 2019, when many young people in Western countries heard about the Lebanese world for the first time.
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 Schindler, Le Monde Libertaire ~ Opening a new activist space in Exarcheia has a significant dimension.
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 ~ Can you tell us about who you are and how it all started and what are your activities?
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 years as the author of The Joy of Sex.
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 history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the war on Ukraine.
“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
