Reviews
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Book Review: Tramp Printers – Forgotten Trails of the Travelling Typographers
February 9th: This handsomely and mostly hand-produced book is a tribute to the craft of printing and of historical insight, both of which verge on extinction in the modern world.![](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Detroit4.jpg)
Film Review: Detroit
January 26th: The misnamed film “Detroit” is more about a triple slaying by police than the city’s 1967 Rebellion.
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Book Review: Breaking the Spell – A History of Anarchist Filmmakers
January 19th: When I decided to destroy any chances at a film-making career, and to instead dedicate my life to producing videos that would hopefully propel people to destroy capitalism, well, there was no road map.
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Book Review: Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho Punk Identifications
January 11th: Like many anarchists who came of age in the 1990s, my first exposure to anarchism came through the punk scene.
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Review: Syria’s Disappeared by Sara Afshar
January 4th: The Syrian government led by president Bashar al-Assad is responsible for systematic and widespread torture targeting its opponents, activists and civilians.
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Film Review: New Town Utopia
November 23rd: Directed by Christopher Ian Smith Release date: 2018 Running time: 80 minutes ‘New Town Utopia is a feature documentary film about utopian dreams and concrete realities…
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Book Review: Divide and Conquer or Divide and Subdivide?
October 30th: by Mark Leier ISBN: 978-1-62963-383-1 PP: 32 Publisher: PM Press 2017 £4.50 ($5.95) This pamphlet is by the author of the best biography of Bakunin, Bakunin: The Creative Passion, Mark Leier and covers the Marx-Bakunin conflict in the First International.
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Book Review: +KAOS Ten years of Hacking and Media Activism
October 26th: Autistici/Inventati 139pp Link to book.
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Book Review: Squatting in Britain 1945-1955
August 25th: by Norman Spinrad ISBN: 978-1-60486-810-4 PP: 264 Publisher: The Merlin Press £16.99 After World War II, many people squatted empty properties, often government-owned ex-Army camps, since a housing crisis had been created as a result of the hugely damaged housing stock, slow state action to build new homes and a huge influx of returning servicemen as well
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Film Review: Dunkirk
August 17th: Directed by Christopher Nolan Released Jul 2017 Running Time 106 minutes Nolan’s Dunkirk amounts to a nostalgic remake of a 1950s World War II film where the brilliant cinematography and immersive sound fails to make up for the nationalist myth making and glorification of war.