Long Read
Resisting Nazi Occult Metal: Lessons from Australia
July 4th: Black Metal still has a far right problem—here are some tools to fight back Despite what some fans may claim, far right political organizing in the extreme metal scene was not a flash-in-the-pan phenomenon that ended in the 1990s.
Conspiracy and interstice: Notes on the wasteland
June 20th: Struggles over vacant land defend a plurality of ungovernable uses and relationships, beneath the mechanisms of capitalist ownership and state control
Radical Reprint: The Ludlow Strike
June 16th: In June 1914 much of that month’s edition of Freedom was given over to a lengthy analysis in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre, one of the most infamous strikebreaking incidents in United States history.
Remembering Wat Tyler: Stakes are head high
June 15th: Standing up against rape, murder and repression remains at the heart of our acts of resistance
The colonial breach and the colonial bind
June 6th: The ruse of international law has no means of ending the killing—Western states are supporting Israel to reassert their colonial agency From Interregnum Whatever the contentions on the term we use to express the scale and method of killing we are witnessing in Gaza, the description at the International Court of Justice as a ‘live-streamed
Chip production in the multi-crisis
May 30th: With its massive ecological footprint, the semiconductor industry has been the material foundation for the IT assault - and now drives economic war between the US and China
Before Solzhenitsyn: A long review of Berkman and Goldman
May 10th: In this lengthy essay, based in a review of Sasha and Emma, Raymond Solomon looks at the politics, and personal histories of two iconic anarchist figures — and the context in which they led their lives.
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 entirely ignored by progressives, as today’s featured article from Freedom‘s January 5th issue of 1952 shows.
50 years on: The trials of Purdie and Prescott
December 14th: In this extract from the mid-December 1971 issue of Freedom, Nicolas Walter reported on court proceedings in the cases of Ian Purdie and Jake Prescott as they faced accusations of conspiring towards a series of bombings attributed to the anarchist Angry Brigade.
Ireland: A farewell to the Workers Solidarity Movement
December 9th: After 37 years the WSM has announced that it intends to disband, shutting down Ireland’s best-known anarchist organisation.
