Editorial from our summer issue, a rare all-colour one, out today with the theme of Our Power – looking at how anarchists and the working class c…
Our Power: Freedom on May Day
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Radical Reprint: The French Anarchist Conference
One of the most useful aspects of sometimes dry reports from gatherings is the snapshot of otherwise amorphous movements — in this case, the Fren…
Radical Reprint: The Land and the Labourer
The July 1913 issue of Freedom features a lengthy article hooked on a major strike of agricultural workers in Ormskirk
Radical reprint: The Napoli revolt of 1913
On a cold day in the wake of a war, starving Italian citizens wanted to put up a poster against raised tariffs but were told to hop it by the gover…
France and the anarchist general strike of 1912
Much of the December 1912 issue of Freedom was given over to a celebration of its star writer Peter Kropotkin’s 70th birthday celebrations.
50 years on: The trials of Purdie and Prescott
In this extract from the mid-December 1971 issue of Freedom, Nicolas Walter reported on court proceedings in the cases of Ian Purdie and Jake Presc…
Freedom and Empire, 1948
In his second article looking at recent editions to the Freedom digital archive, historian Jack Saundrs considers the anarchists’ take o…
Freedom and the 1974 Miners’ Strike
Jack Saundrs looks over some recent additions to Freedom’s extensive digital archive, which draws together unique scans and mirrored works to…
Kropotkin and Freedom
Rounding off our month of articles commemorating 100 years since Kropotkin died, Selva Varengo writes on the political philosopher’s long ass…
Pioneers of anarchism: Varlam Cherkezishvili (Tcherkesoff)
Lesser-known of two “anarchist princes” exiled to London in the 1890s (the other being Peter Kropotkin), Cherkezishvili (Warlaam Tcherk…
At the anarchist bookfair: Freedom’s new site, books, journal and archive!
Many regular Freedom readers will be aware that the last few years have been tumultuous at the Press, with the near-catastrophic fire in 2013, clos…
Freedom, December 2013
December 2013 issue of Freedom The December 2013 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical …
Freedom, November 2013
November 2013 issue of Freedom The November 2013 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical …
Freedom, September 2013
September 2013 issue of Freedom The September 2013 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radica…
Freedom, August 2013
August 2013 issue of Freedom The August 2013 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical book…
Recent Articles
No consent to confinement
UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
Anarchist News Review: Belfast pogroms and World Cup corruption
Jack and Mike discuss some of the worst racist violence in recent Northern Irish history, looking at the factors behind it, both historic loyalist …
Abolish AI – before it abolishes us
Evidence of the existential threat posed to humanity by artificial intelligence accrues day by day ~ Bill Weinberg ~ The United Nations on 4 June i…
Israeli academia “under command”
Report exposes Israeli higher education’s collaboration with military and arms manufacturers ~ Nissi Peli ~ Israel’s deliberate and thoroug…
Revolt in Albania: Besa and Flamingos
An ancient obligation to protect is animating the mass protests against the Jared Kushner’s destructive resort ~ Joel Sucher ~ I’ve said it…
