Features

Affinity Collective

19 November 2020

Don’t despair, organise!: Affinity Collective

Immense urban belts are encroaching unrelentingly on the countryside, replacing flora and fauna with concrete, metal and glass, and enveloping large regions in a haze of atmospheric…

Dorothy Spencer

17 November 2020

Mainstream publishers are vampires

Mainstream publishers are vampires. From 19th century collectors of folk verse who butchered working class prose to suit their own idea of the English vernacular (more cottages,…

Emma Goldman

29 October 2020

History: Bolsheviks shooting anarchists

The following is the letter from Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman on the persecution of anarchists under the bolshevik rule in Soviet Russia. We have just received…

Autonomous Brigade

17 October 2020

Voice from the frontline: Brazil’s antifa firefighters

As record-breaking wildfires rage in the rainforest a member of the newly-formed Autonomous Brigade writes for Freedom about its defence of affected people, animals and the environment.…

A2Day

16 October 2020

History: Baltic and Polish anarchism at the end of the 19th century

At the beginning of the twentieth century, anarchist anti-State ideals were most widely felt in what were then the western regions of the Russian Empire. This reflected…

Warren Draper

3 October 2020

D I Why?: Because we gotta!

As Ruth Kinna reminded us lately in issue 11 of Dope magazine, John Lydon of the Sex Pistols has openly confessed that he was never an anarchist.…

Anon 2020100201

2 October 2020

Artist: Efa Supertramp  Apocalipstick Blues  Label: Afiach  Release Date: 2nd October 2020  Website: www.efasupertramp.co.uk Welsh solo acoustic-punk Efa Supertramp returns with Apocalipstick Blues, the long-awaited follow up…

Lousy Badger

28 September 2020

W.A.R. Camp Diaries 1: A protester’s view from inside StopHS2

Earlier this month Freedom correspondent Lousy Badger packed his bags and headed to Wendover Active Resistance camp to help in the fight to protect ancient woodlands from…

GAF

26 September 2020

Interview with Liebig34 squat in Berlin as it resists eviction

The anti-capitalist struggle is an intersectional one. Liebig34 provides a perfect example. In their fight against housing being a commodity, capitalism and patriarchy, they have been a…

Shiri Shalmy

22 September 2020

From Mutual Aid to Food Co-ops

It has been almost a year since Cooperation Town came into being. In December 2019, Labour lost yet another election and Corbyn was out of the game.…

Warren Draper

19 September 2020

Get Shit Done: the future is collaborative

Unless it can be used for marketing, ‘bread and circuses’ entertainment, or to create commodities for the rich, the innate creativity of human beings is actively discouraged…

Dimitris Dalakoglou

8 September 2020

David Graeber (1961-2020): An anarchist and anthropological farewell to a ‘sudden thinker’

When a friend messaged me a few days ago to ask me if I had heard about David’s death, before the news had been published, my initial…

Desert Worm

2 September 2020

Don’t despair, organise!: Reading Red Kitchen

Like many homeless people during the lockdown, asylum-seeking migrants are being bundled into cramped hotels. With their asylum allowance confiscated, they rely on 2 x plain pasta…

Jim Jepps

1 September 2020

Review: Great Anarchists

Great Anarchists By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper Dog Section Press 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9160365-6-7 Review by Jim Jepps With the newly released Great Anarchists, Dog Section Press…

Scorsby

25 August 2020

How to Challenge a Section 21 Notice

Despite the government’s temporary pause on eviction proceedings the system is going to be back soon enough—here’s what you need to know if you’re facing it. We…