With militarism and the expectation of a war in Europe on the rise, Freedom‘s approach wasn’t getting as much of a bump in readership as hoped, according to reports from the anarchists’ annual gathering in Newcastle in May 1914. Anarchism’s reach in Britain at the time was, as ever, limited compared to the greater movements
Following the YIVO conference on Yiddish anarchism which took place on January 20th in New York (video here), Raymond S Solomon puts it in context with an earlier work — 1980 documentary Free Voice of Labor. A conference on Yiddish Anarchism which took place in New York earlier this month is reminiscent of Free Voice
Three decades after Criminal Justice Act took away legal duty, FOI requests reveal systemic racism across the UK ~ Lulu Smith ~ A newly-released report highlights the lack of transit provisions for Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and other travelling families across the UK.
This killing, this individual act of war, would mean nothing, and get no support, if it wasn’t a shot fired in a war that was already ongoing ~ Madeline Silver ~ Imagine, if you will, a thought experiment, in Minecraft, many miles away.
Campaigners and artists remain quietly active despite China’s tightening control ~ Levon Kwok ~ On 19 October, 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to prison for subversion.
Guys like him shoot a CEO one day, and a lot of kids on another—they just hide their personal reasons behind “brutal honesty” ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ The last days have been full of news about Luigi Mangione, the shooter of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.
Keeping the flame of anarchist agitation alive and spreading throughout the city, meetings between anti-authoritarian individuals and those eager for change, and distributing books and publications—we gathered in the hall of the Acadêmicos da Orgia Samba School ~ Anarchist News Agency ~ On the walls and outside of the hall in Porto Alegre, Brazil, banners
Having gone mostly online in 2014, Freedom continues to publish an irregular paper today. Those and many other issues stretching back to our founding in 1886 are online above, at libcom.org, and via the Sparrow’s Nest.
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