Freedom News

Statement by KCK co-Chair Cemil Bayik on Stop of Military Attacks

February 11th: Freedom reproduces a statement by KCK co-Chair Cemil Bayik on the recent earthquake in North Kurdistan and Turkey, including a call for the stop of all attacks by the military forces of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement: “To our honorable people: The earthquake [in North Kurdistan and North Syria] has caused a great disaster.

Ian Bone and the people’s republic of Hackney

January 29th: Rob Ray talks to Ian Bone of Class War and Anarchy in the UK fame about his experiences of Hackney during the anti-Poll Tax campaign.

A village to be evicted for coal – the defense of Luetzerath in Germany

January 9th: Freedom provides a transcript of an interview on A-Radio Berlin with an activist of Radio Aalpunk from Luetzerath on January 7, 2023.

“Leftists” outside Ukraine are used to listening only to people from Moscow: Interview with anarcho-syndicalists in Eastern Ukraine

October 4th: Yavor Tarinski from the Greek libertarian journal Aftoleksi interviews two anarchists from eastern Ukraine.

Ruth Jarman on defying the court’s authority

September 28th: Ruth Jarman of Christian Climate Action was arrested and remanded along with 50 other activists for breaking a civil injunction by blocking access to Kingsbury Oil Terminal with the group Just Stop Oil on September 15.

Brian Morris and the anarchist idea

September 12th: Brian Morris’s work as an academic over many decades has taken in everything from how cultures name things to how they interact with nature, religion and the concept of self.

Antifascism, football and skinheads- Interview with ex-member of RASH NYC

June 27th: This is an interview that originally appeared in Polish in issue #1 of antifascist magazine Alerta, and recently it was translated to English by 161 Crew.

Interview with a Finnish anarchist

May 20th: Yavor Tarinski of Greek libertarian journal Aftoleksi interviews Antti Rautiainen, from Finnish antiauthoritarian group A-ryhmä, on the latest developments in Finland as it applies for Nato membership.

Interview: Operation Solidarity in Ukraine

March 29th: This article sees the 161 Crew talking to one of the founders of the Ukrainian anarchist initiative about their project, the global solidarity response from libertarians and operating in a complex warzone.

Interview with the Coordination of Metal Workers (CTM) of Cádiz

January 5th: At the end of last year metalworkers in the southern Spanish port city went on an immense nine-day pay strike as inflation bit into the value of wages, before being brutally let down by union leaderships.