On February 10th a military court sentenced three 16-year-old activists from Kansk in the Krasnoyarsk Krai, southern Russia. Nikita Uvarov, wh…
Russia: Teenager gets five years for flyers and Minecraft chat
Tag: Anarchism
Lessons of the Covid mutual aid projects
In the early days of the pandemic, Freedom put out a call to found mutual aid groups for helping people struggling under lockdown, which went spect…
Ireland: A farewell to the Workers Solidarity Movement
After 37 years the WSM has announced that it intends to disband, shutting down Ireland’s best-known anarchist organisation.
It ain’t liberation until it’s total liberation
The Total Liberation Club reflects on Do or Die Magazine, Earth First!
In the face of oppression, trans anarchists demand solidarity
To Kell and Back ‘dispatches from the front line’ Content note for discussion of transphobia and mention of suicide On June 5th, in its 200th y…
Impressions: A Normal Life, the memoir of Vassilis Palaiokostas
As Freedom Press launches its (first ever) crowdfunder to get the story of the Greek Robin Hood into print, George F waxes lyrical about the import…
Cuba: Economic change and authoritarian stasis
Octavio Alberola looks at the Cuban state’s post-Fidel shift towards a more privatised economic model and the way it has prioritised retainin…
Kropotkin: Syndicalism and Anarchism
The following long read first appeared in Freedom’s July and August issues in 1912, as the Great Unrest was in full swing.
A polymath mind: Kropotkin’s contributions to science
While Peter Kropotkin is today best remembered as a leading anarchist thinker, one of the most persuasive advocates of anarchist communism, we shou…
100 years on, Kropotkin remains strikingly modern
The centenary of Kropotkin’s death is a good time to return to the question he asked in Freedom in 1886: what must we do?
Against anarcho-smugness
As Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party occasions yet another wave of anarcho-smugness, Anna K.
Voice from the frontline: Brazil’s antifa firefighters
As record-breaking wildfires rage in the rainforest a member of the newly-formed Autonomous Brigade writes for Freedom about its defence of affecte…
History: Baltic and Polish anarchism at the end of the 19th century
At the beginning of the twentieth century, anarchist anti-State ideals were most widely felt in what were then the western regions of the Russian E…
D I Why?: Because we gotta!
As Ruth Kinna reminded us lately in issue 11 of Dope magazine, John Lydon of the Sex Pistols has openly confessed that he was never an anarchist.
David Graeber (1961-2020): An anarchist and anthropological farewell to a ‘sudden thinker’
When a friend messaged me a few days ago to ask me if I had heard about David’s death, before the news had been published, my initial reactio…
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