Frank Leech
11 April 2021
Frank Leech: Why I went on Hunger Strike
The following article by a wartime conscientious objector is taken from an April 1944 issue of War Commentary, brought out by the Freedom Group during World War…
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Sammy Gullan
1 April 2021
ANTIFA to sue George Soros for unpaid wages
This week court cases began in several countries against George Soros for what is believed to be a legal first for anarchists. Many ANTIFA groups are already…
Jack Saunedrs
29 March 2021
Freedom and Empire, 1948
In his second article looking at recent additions to the Freedom digital archive, historian Jack Saunedrs considers the anarchists’ take on Britain’s declining imperial holdings as another vicious…
Jack Saundrs
23 March 2021
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 create a sizeable library of the…
Junk Comix
16 March 2021
Dunkirk Jungle: A comic about life behind the UK border
This new illustrated work from Junk Comix offers a glimpse of the difficulties faced by people who are being pushed from pillar to post by authorities in…
Joe Reynolds
12 March 2021
A Gun Without a Culture? An interview with Nabil Al-Raee
In the crypt of a church built into the face of a cliff, I wait to meet the action director of the Palestinian Freedom Theatre, Nabil Al-Raee.…
Jaroslava Tomanova
10 March 2021
Reasonability is not a reproduction of universal laws declared from above: A conversation with Kilian Jörg
The end of February marks a year since the WHO warned the national governments, saying that COVID-19 is “literally knocking at the door” and that they might…
Yavor Tarinski
2 March 2021
Futureless Present, Time and Social Transformation
The following is the introduction of the new book “Common Futures: Social Transformation and Political Ecology” by Yavor Tarinski and Alexandros Schismenos. Futureless Present Why have we…
Selva Varengo
28 February 2021
Kropotkin and Freedom
Rounding off our month of articles commemorating 100 years since Kropotkin died, Selva Varengo writes on the political philosopher’s long association with the Freedom Group through the…
William Dare
23 February 2021
Hidden exposures: coercion and COVID-19 in the office
George, 24, is having to go to work at a small London office during the pandemic, despite being able work from home. “The whole thing is to…
Peter Kropotkin
22 February 2021
Kropotkin: Syndicalism and Anarchism
The following long read first appeared in Freedom’s July and August issues in 1912, as the Great Unrest was in full swing. He discusses the differences between…
Peter Kropotkin
20 February 2021
Kropotkin: The Permanence of Society After the Revolution
Continuing our multi-part series marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Peter Kropotkin, this October 1890 article considers how to avoid the curdling of a revolutionary…
Warren Draper
17 February 2021
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’. Austerity, socio-economic polarisation and the shuffling…
Iain McKay
15 February 2021
A revolutionary heart: Kropotkin’s politics
Part Two of this analysis looks at the thinker’s key works and impact as a political philosopher.
Iain McKay
13 February 2021
A polymath mind: Kropotkin’s contributions to science
While Peter Kropotkin is today best remembered as a leading anarchist thinker, one of the most persuasive advocates of anarchist communism, we should not forget that he…