Freedom

Cologne students protest cuts and militarisation during Merz visit

July 15th: Demonstration decries CDU government’s slew of social cuts while investment in weapons surges ~ Josefine Peters ~ German chancellor Friedrich…

Athens bank fire: Looking for new victims

July 15th: Investigation of fatal 2010 arson revived as fresh prosecutions re-centre ‘law and order’ politics ~ Blade Runner ~ Sixteen years after…

Report from Durham Miners’ Gala

July 13th: ~ Tom Brown ~ The 140th Durham Miners’ Gala took place on Saturday 11 July with thousands of attendees as usual, banners and brass bands.

Maja T interview: “I resist in the cage of isolation”

July 10th: Locked in a Hungarian prison, she's been living in a cell without social interaction for two years: "It's an inhumane system that prevents even min…

Notes from the US: A rolling coup

July 14th: As ICE kidnappings continue, and despite signs of dissent, Trump’s grip remains strong ~ Louis Further ~ It’s probably no surprise that…

They broke his hands to silence his guitar

July 4th: A furious sixteen-minute documentary responding to the coup in Chile remains a defining work of anti-fascist cinema ~ Bleart Thaçi ~ Three months …

The new Palmer Raids

June 29th: How Trump’s war on dissent borrows from America’s darkest playbook ~ Joel Sucher ~ History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes &…

The Frankensteinian efforts to control us have failed

July 12th: Isolating our bodies in fluorescent-lit cells 24/7 has proven unable to desensitise us ~ Hybachi LeMar ~ It’s no coincidence so many of us on the…

Confessions of a communard: Meeting the people where they are

July 9th: Our strategy for 2027 has been about visible grassroots initiatives which announce our presence ~ Wren Albion ~ At the end of 2026 A Commune in the…

Radical Reprint: Spanish Revolution remembered

July 5th: Ninety years after anarchism’s greatest experiment, we revisit Nicolas Walter’s reflections on its fiftieth anniversary ~ punkacademic …

Trump’s World Cup—and Mussolini’s

July 7th: Authoritarian regimes have regularly used the World Cup for sportswashing ~ Aris Chatzistefanou ~ It was only the second FIFA World Cup when FIFA b…

The forbidden truth we all know

July 6th: Imperial nostalgia is shoring up the remnants of a decaying order ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ 305 people received British Empire Medals in King’s Bir…

Capital punishment: The state’s strength and weakness

July 2nd: Killing prisoners does not rehabilitate them, nor does it benefit their victims ~ Wrona ~ The death penalty is again in the global headlines.