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Sister Not Cister member

24 August 2019

Sister not Cister: a fight to be safe

The issue of trans rights is one which has caused enormous upheaval across the left, including the anarchist movement. Below, a member of trans-solidarity group Sister Not…

GAF

18 August 2019

Climate is class war — what next for green activism?

An alliance of non-hierarchical groups formed over the last few months, the Green Anticapitalist Front is attempting to provide a link between the extensive anarchist experience of…

Mangal Media

15 August 2019

Is genocide denial anti-imperialist now? How tankies are taking over leftbook and the London student scene

Picture a British second-year Sociology student holding a Socialist Worker’s Party placard and shouting “hands-off DPRK” outside your student halls (that image in your head, he’s male…

Peter Ó Máille

14 August 2019

The Social Centre Bulletin: GAS and bookfairs

Is there really anywhere else quite like a good social centre? Peter Ó’Máille considers the value of rebel community hubs and updates on what’s happening in our…

Anarcharlot

11 August 2019

Sex work: A guide for activism

Anarchists through history have often been at the margins of society, associated with criminality and other unacceptable categories. So, it should be no surprise to know some…

Darya Rustamova

4 August 2019

Morrissey isn’t senile, he’s always been a racist

CW: racism “Bengali in Platforms”, “England for the English”, “Asian Rut”, and “This is Not Your Country” are quotes you’d expect from the mouth of Boris Johnson;…

IFA reports

3 August 2019

The 11th Congress of the IFA

The end of last month saw the 11th Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations, which co-ordinates social anarchist organisations across 13 different national and language regions…

Squatter's Digest

30 July 2019

Squatter’s Digest: Greece

Greece, the home of democracy. And molotov cocktails. They also enjoy regular cocktail nights to raise money for the squats and imprisoned anarchists. It’s one thing to…

Rob Ray

27 July 2019

Pioneers of anarchism: Varlam Cherkezishvili (Tcherkesoff)

Lesser-known of two “anarchist princes” exiled to London in the 1890s (the other being Peter Kropotkin), Cherkezishvili (Warlaam Tcherkesoff in the Russian manner) was an influence on…

Rob Ray

20 July 2019

The anarchist reading list: Summer 2019

Below is a brief run-down of a selection of books recently or soon to be published in the forthcoming months which we feel may be of interest…

Peter Ó Máille

17 July 2019

The Social Centre Bulletin: Raise the roof!

The second instalment of this new column for Freedom News, which aims to support and publicise what’s happening at radical social centres around Britain.

Maïra Al-Manzali

16 July 2019

On the possibility of a Rainbow

‘The Rainbow in Jordan is a microcosm of our issues in the region.’Lioness was speaking to me in a shisha café-restaurant in the upscale Amman neighbourhood of…

George F.

1 July 2019

Catalonia: Punk pirates battle off coast of Barna!

GEORGE F joins over a dozen DIY pirate boats as they engage in battle off the coast of Barcelona. It’s fucking hot. It has been for days.…

Rob Ray

28 June 2019

Pioneers of British anarchism: Edward Carpenter

Dublin Pride is tomorrow, and for this Pride season we note the 90th anniversary of the death of Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), a man who in the most repressive…

Peter Ó Máille

19 June 2019

The Social Centre Bulletin

This new column for Freedom News aims to support and publicise what’s happening at radical social centres around Britain.

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