Jamie O’Brien
4 July 2017
Bread and blood: Living in an industry town
My story of growing up surrounded by industry and injury in the Welsh steel town of Port Talbot
Features
Sisters Uncut
20 June 2017
Sisters Uncut: A look at Bristol
Sisters Uncut in Bristol have been carrying out protests against cuts and closures. The group occupied the Cheltenham Road library for 12 days this Spring protesting the…
Organise
18 June 2017
Why beer is in a bad State
In this special feature written for the Organise Issue 88, a member of the Anarchist Federation looks into the historic consequences of State intervention in beer, from frothing…
Anon 2017051001
10 May 2017
When your neighbour is your jailer
In 2012 Theresa May announced the creation of the “hostile environment” for “illegal migrants.” This new policy framework has extended the powers of the Home Office to…
Andrea Brock
23 April 2017
Why I shut down Britain’s biggest opencast coal mine
Reclaim The Power and Earth First! activist Andrea Brock explains why, on the first day since the industrial revolution in which none of Britain’s energy was generated from coal, she…
Tony W
22 April 2017
Anarchist Haringey: Brief radical history of a London borough
I guess Tottenham is most known for its riots in 1985 and 2011. These were in no way organised or led by anarchists, and we were a…
Anon 2017040401
4 April 2017
View from the floor: A supermarket worker on organising and retaking stolen life
In this piece from the shop floor, a supermarket worker talks about their initial feeling of isolation and slow making of links with others on the back…
Ross Bradshaw
2 April 2017
Anarchism and the bookshop trade
Other than the London Anarchist Bookfair and a few smaller regional book fairs—Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield for example—there are few places where anarchist books are seen. Few general…
Anon 20170320
20 March 2017
Democracy and the NHS
The mythology regarding the 1945-51 Labour governments dies hard on the left, particularly in the era of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour which often sees itself taking up the…
Darren Kingaby
8 March 2017
Nuclear Power At What Price?
March 11th will mark the sixth anniversary of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, releasing radioactive material into…
Kevin Blowe
4 March 2017
Why covering your face at a protest is the right thing to do
Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) co-ordinator Kevin Blowe explains why the organisation encourages activists to mask up. In June 2015 Netpol launched a campaign to try to…
Luther Blisset
2 March 2017
anti-fascist Sports, Autonomen, and PhDs: An Interview with Gabriel Kuhn
Gabriel Kuhn has been writing political books from the late ’90s on topics ranging from women pirates to football and the State. In this interview Freedom reviewer…
Freedom News
27 February 2017
Red Cap Terror and Other Tales from the Samosa Line
In this report from the shop floor, Greenford-based group Workers Wild West write about West London’s immense warehousing sector. Concentrating on Bakkavor’s Cumberland, Elveden, Abbeydale, Harrow and…
Iida Käyhkö
20 February 2017
Students are suffering — rent strikes are the solution
If you thought that the student mental health “crisis” was something of an exaggeration, let us start off with some fun statistics. According to recent research by…
Acorn
30 January 2017
Hamburg G20: Stop them crawling back to the city
There is more than one way to resist the industrial capitalist system. One is to stay put where you are and ferociously defend its onslaught. Another way,…