~ Mike and Jon are joined by anarchist historian Constance Bantman, who talks through the situation for anarchists in France, the rise of a well-fu…
Anarchist News Review: War rages, antifascists demonised
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Can Tory chaos be an opportunity?
When it comes to anarchist activities, we are often in search of physical space that we can occupy and use.
UK Elections 2022
Jon Bigger rounds up the local electoral drama and the jamboree’s implications for the various political factions.
British Politics and Anarchism in 2022
I’ve been thinking recently about the various themes that I’ve written about since starting this regular column for Freedom in 2016.
Solidarity of the rich
Jon Bigger considers the actions of those who preach individual strength, but practice a very particular, and extraordinarily successful, form of m…
We need to stop Boris Johnson before it is too late
Boris Johnson is the most dangerous prime minister I’ve suffered.
The multiple and overlapping crises in the UK point to a sustained need for mutual aid
In the recent printed edition of Freedom, there was an article reflecting on Covid and the mutual aid groups that sprung up in the early days of th…
Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ agenda could end the era of neoliberalism in the UK but mark the start of something equally harmful
Back in 2010, when the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government began, austerity was the order of the day.
Reflections on the incompetence of the Johnson government
Being ideologically opposed to government, or the very least top-down imposed upon us government, we can sometimes just criticise government action…
Remember on International Workers Memorial Day but also organise for a new economy
Today is International Workers Memorial Day, a time to think about workers that have been killed by capitalism.
Five things that could happen to make election night interesting
There will be anarchists that avoid the election and anarchists who soak it all up.
The next UK election could be terrifying
If there’s a general election in 2019 I’m starting to feel really uneasy about it.
We live under a box set regime
“Do you remember a few months ago when the government losing a vote was a really big deal?” That’s what a close friend said to me after the l…
Britain After Brexit
Jon Bigger writes on the likely scene awaiting us and the UK’s decline as a world power – with or without the EU.
Why and how Trump is about to get worse than ever
I didn’t stay up all night awaiting news of the US mid-term elections but I did take a look at the results when I got up.
Recent Articles
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
