Last year, I wrote in this blog that the UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis was one of ‘callous incompetence’.[1] In hi…
Incompetence, Cronyism, Repression: One Year On, What is the Covid State?
Tag: mutual aid
Overkill on Gloucester Road: Bristol occupation evicted
A massive bailiff operation backed by police ended the occupation of a landmark building in Bristol yesterday after two months of operation.
Northumberland: Alnwick Community Larder forced to close following ‘vandalism’ allegation
Alnwick is a town of around 8,000 people in north Northumberland.
Crops NOT Shops: Growing the Mutual Millennium
Last month I suggested that there was good reason to believe that we were witnessing the birth of the ‘mutual millennium’.
Base and Roses Raise Money for Penally Camp Residents
Bristol mutual aid group Base and Roses are raising money for asylum seekers currently housed in Penally Camp in Wales.
Welcome to the Mutual Millenium
One of the fundamental differences between anarchists and authoritarians (both left and right) is that anarchists believe in people.
From Mutual Aid to Food Co-ops
It has been almost a year since Cooperation Town came into being.
Interview: Mutual aid in Lebanon in the wake of disaster
As riots threaten to topple government control in the wake of the Beirut explosion Freedom talks to a Lebanese radical who is witnessing another si…
Anarchists in England and Wales launch Autonomy News website
This week anarchists based in England and Wales launched a new website, Autonomy News.
Scrub Hub: An autonomous Mutual Aid response to COVID-19
In the Covid-19 crisis the combination of serial incompetence, public services scythed by forty years of neo-liberalism, and a callous disregard fo…
Time for artists’ Mutual Aid?
The following is the first text contributed to Freedom’s new Art & Anarchy column.
Don’t Despair, Organise! An introduction to the (yet-unnamed) confederation of Solidarity Funds
The following text was contributed to Freedom by a person involved in Goose Green Solidarity Fund: a newly formed organisation for people who live …
Beet & Two Veg: Grow Your Own Emancipation
Looking at some of the mainstream vegan publications and some of the more high profile social media superstars, you would be forgiven for thinking …
Lessons from COVID-19: How transformative justice and mutual aid can help to address harm in communities
This article was originally published on the Transforming Society blog.
Solidarity against barbarism: The fight against coronavirus and the far-right in the USA
This interview was originally published by Brighton Antifascists.
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Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
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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.
