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Tag: Education
Book ban in Manchester school: Are we becoming Texas?
Without even being told to, the school authorities arbitrarily decided to censor titles like Twilight and 1984 ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ It has been …
SEND reforms: Cuts and culture wars
Reducing SEND provision is part of a wider fight against the disabled and the young ~ punkacademic ~ Labour’s long-awaited announcement of ‘ref…
Athens: Police tear-gas schoolchildren, blame anarchist parents
Wide coalition of teachers’ and parents’ groups organised protest over school conditions ~ Kit Dimou ~ Six children required medical ca…
The space between us: Parenting and the generation gap
I am not the parent I thought I’d be, but revolutions rarely unfold as we predict
Education and autonomy in times of ecological collapse
Zapatista education promotes a relationship with knowledge based on the needs and questions of students and communities ~ Ana Paula Morel, from…
Racism forced me to leave teaching
What use is an anti-racist curriculum delivered by a racist teacher?
Education is anarchy
What should we teach, to whom, how best should we do it, and why?
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the las…
University asylum, campus cops and student struggles in Europe
Anarchist students consider New Democracy’s intervention in Greek universities in the broader context of an EU-wide remaking of education alo…
Greece: Cops out of our universities!
The fundamental aim of authority in Greece is to reconfigure the university from a space of political resistance to an institution for those who ha…
An anarchist & trade-unionist critique of education
This essay is an attempt to further elucidate and elaborate on a previous article written about the British Eurocentric education curriculum.
Michelle Cruz Gonzales on staying punk and teaching lessons
Since the 18th century, European and Western anarchists have been keenly interested in education.
Removal of guilt
Anthony Weaver looks over L G Lennhoff’s book Exceptional Children. Weaver lectured in education at Whitelands, one of the teacher training …
On Education: An Interview with David Gilbert and Jalil Muntaqim
Political struggle, anarchism, and education have a long, complex history.
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Report from Durham Miners’ Gala
~ Tom Brown ~ The 140th Durham Miners’ Gala took place on Saturday 11 July with thousands of attendees as usual, banners and brass bands.
The Frankensteinian efforts to control us have failed
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…
Maja T interview: “I resist in the cage of isolation”
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…
Bristol activists blockade Elbit contractors
Workers at logistics provider DSV were “very supportive”, say organisers ~ Scott Harris ~ Disarm Bristol says a group of almost 40 pro…
Confessions of a communard: Meeting the people where they are
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…
