ASS
24 August 2020
Notes for New Squatters
The government’s U-turn on evictions is merely a temporary reprieve—and today Freedom is publishing this newly updated Advisory Service for Squatters guide, which will only get more…
Features
Let's Get Rooted
22 August 2020
Interview: The Manchester Housing Officer
The following interview with a housing officer from Manchester by Let’s Get Rooted reveals the impact of the lockdown on both workers and working class tenants. I’ve…
Rachel Horne
15 August 2020
The Doncaster Heads. From the Perspective of One of the Heads.
In 2017 a famous artist called Laurence Edwards was commissioned to create an artwork dedicated to the miners’ and their families in Doncaster. This was a well-intentioned…
Freedom Press
10 August 2020
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 side of the event – society-wide, grassroots solidarity that has inspired them to become an anarchist.
Zosia Brom
8 August 2020
Poland: Stop Bzdurom, Queer struggle and the events of yesterday in Warsaw
Dozens of people were arrested in Warsaw yesterday following the police executing a court order granting two-month pre-trial detention of a member of Stop Bzdurom (Stop Bullshit)…
Carl Spender
7 August 2020
“Blackness anarchises anarchism” – Marquis Bey on the theory of Black anarchism
To coincide with the release of their new book with AK Press , Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Towards a Black Anarchism, Marquis Bey sits down with Chuck Mertz from…
Wayne Price
3 August 2020
Book review: Too Much and Never Enough
Taking a deep dive into Mary Trump’s recent work on the political psychopathology of her US President uncle.
Rob Ray
29 July 2020
Pioneers of British Anarchism: Rita Milton
After the Second World War British anarchism was left in a state of near-collapse, with Rita Milton being one of a very few people who kept the…
Jim Donaghey
23 July 2020
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 for the lives of ordinary people…
Leeds SolFed
13 July 2020
What a Japanese Anarchist taught me about British politics
At the start of the 20th Century, Japan was in a state of technological, cultural and political acceleration. As a nation, it had been forced to open…
Warren Draper
12 July 2020
Feed ‘em with Freedom: Maria Zazzi Minestrone
This is the first in our new regular(ish) Feed ‘em with Freedom cookery slot. Each recipe includes ingredients which are affordable and easy to obtain, many of…
Freedom Press
7 July 2020
Diary of a Squat: free audiobook
Diary Of A Squat (1989) Written by Jean Delarue Read by Dorothy Spencer and Carl Cattermole We loved this very rare and beautiful book so much that…
GGSF member
25 June 2020
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 in SE22 and…
Peter Gelderloos
19 June 2020
Police Killings and the Settler State
In a new article for Freedom written following anti-racist protests which have reverberated around the globe, Peter Gelderloos considers how history acts to inflect today’s racism in the US, UK and settler colonial states worldwide.
Louis Further
16 June 2020
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks. There are two…