As the State’s machinery of repression ground slowly onwards, both the 10 March and 24 March 1945 issues of War Commentary, Freedom’s wartime newspaper, had extensive coverage of anarchists being sent to court, solidarity actions and continued police searches ~ Rob Ray ~ The headline case, following on from raids at the end of 1944
Following raids on Freedom Press by Special Branch, at the behest of the Home Office, which had been reported in January 1945 (recounted in last month’s column), pressure was kept up with a succession of court cases, reported on at length by the right-wing press ~ Rob Ray ~ That the February 24th edition of
In this classic explainer of trade unionism without bureaucrats from 1952, Philip Sansom (pictured) considers the thinking behind anarcho-syndicalism before giving an example from the time — the fascinating and little-known Mutual Aid Society of the Euston railwaymen. The trouble with most theories is that they have so little relationship with the facts. One can
Ahead of Christmas, we reproduce the following historic seasonal Freedom article from nearly 60 years ago, comprised of a selection of small festive vignettes by Philip Sansom. Please note some of the language is dated — the main lesson here however is that the issues raised by Sansom (pictured above) at the time are decidedly
Andy, Rhiannon, Sam and Simon discuss the UK Supreme Court’s ruling, what it means legally and what it actually means for trans people, as well as the solidarity demonstrations that took place over the weekend.
The series of raids, have been labelled a desperate response as State forces struggle to contain public anger over percieved corruption and incompetence.
From an anarchist perspective, Pope Francis was certainly not the worst of the men who have sat their elderly backsides on Papal thrones in living memory.
The only descendant of the anarchist revolutionary José Buenaventura Durruti has died in France at the age of 93.
Trump’s presidency is still not widely seen for the fascist coup that it is ~ Louis Further ~ Be honest and ignore your ‘scepticism’ about the ‘decency’ of politics in the United States: would you have believed it, had you been told ten years ago, that its president would be a twice impeached convicted felon,
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