Confessions of a communard: All-in for the revolution
If trying to use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house didn’t work on an international level, why would it work for anarchist groups and individuals working at a community level?
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Argentina’s new President: ‘Crisis and confrontation’
It is difficult to imagine that he can carry out his ‘anarcho-capitalist’ postulates of eliminating the State since the State and capital are complementary and necessary elements in the capitalist system.
Stamped on a human facial recognition database, forever
Rob Ray writes on proposals to roll out facial recognition cameras across Britain, alongside the bringing of passport photos into police databases.
It’s all out for a new wave of strikes
Tube engineering worker and RMT rep Andy Littlechild writes on the background and forming of the latest strike wave, building the wave to a tsunami, and our broader need for community defence. So complex is the situation we’ve been in over the last six months; with such an amount and range of strikes occurring, that
Making Mad History: Mad Pride 2022
A month ago, we wrote for Freedom about the history of Mad Pride, and how we’re bringing it back in 2022 and well, we, all of us, did exactly that. It was a day filled with lunacy, screams, tears, hope and abolition. We cannot thank enough everyone who participated and turned up more for the
Two Poll Taxes and One King’s Head: wishing you a Happy Wat Tyler Day
At the beginning of June we witnessed a sickening bout of ‘sycophantasia’, with what Jon Bigger described as “four days of union flag bunting, […] media hype and wall to wall news coverage, reminding us that we still suffer the monarchy.” Outside of media-land there was little appetite for cap-doffing and brown-nosing in the midst
Mali’s Expulsion of France
The Republic of Mali’s recent expulsion of French diplomatic agents will come as a huge blow to Françafrique – France’s decades-long aspiration to cement its postcolonial influence over its former West African colonies. Mali has, in many ways, reignited the spirit and furore of anticolonial resistance that promised to sweep through the region following the
The Menshevik’s Pants: Es lebe die Freiheit!
| CW: Contains a non-graphic instance of sexual assault | Dear Prisoner, “I fell in love – completely and with passionate sincerity – with the idea of revolution.” Evgeniia Iaroslavskaia Markon She sells the arts of the working class to the rich but I know she doesn’t believe in it. A newspaper held in shaking
On the periphery of police violence: dispatches from London, Athens & Mexico City
The first time I encountered violence outside of the family I was fifteen and there was a machete pointed at my throat. My boyfriend and I used to take a long walk to the only 24- hour off-license in several square miles when we were doing pills and ran out of cigarettes. We never prepared
ALERT: Transphobic feminism and far-right activism rapidly converging
As the conversation around transgender people’s human rights continues to generate heat, many have speculated on the extent to which anti-trans “gender critical” (GC) activists who often claim to be either feminists or otherwise motivated mostly by concern for women’s safety and human rights are aligned with openly conservative and right-wing interests. In an unfortunate
