George Askaroff
27 August 2025
A cautionary tale from my Russian anarchist great-grandfather
On the danger of sacrificing principle for pragmatism
Features
Alice Hoole
25 August 2025
Football utopias: On and off the pitch with Republica and the Cowfolk
Both teams share a unique friendship based on anti-fascist and activist priorities, providing a safe home for identities who don’t fit the typical sporting trajectory
Tasos Sagris
24 August 2025
Kafka in the 21st century
As the groundbreaking play “Metamorphosis” reaches the end of its run in Greece, its director reflects on its significance today
Nikolay Gerasimov
22 August 2025
The adventures of G. P. Maximoff
How the Russian anarcho-syndicalist became a political journalist, ended up in the Red Army, and helped organise Kropotkin’s funeral
Neil Middleton
20 August 2025
“All of a sudden the streets were ablaze”: Nikos Romanos and legacy of the Greek revolt
The anarchist’s recent arrest continues a long story: ten years ago today, his prison hunger strike brought the country to the edge of insurrection on the anniversary of the 2008 uprising
Freedom Press
19 August 2025
The 2025 Anarchist Bookfairs List
Calendars are rapidly filling up, but there should always be time to hang out with comrades, peruse the latest political literature and scheme over a coffee …
Joel Sucher
17 August 2025
Is there a future for Anarchism in America?
The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges
Ryan Bunnell
15 August 2025
Book review: Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues
The Chicago Surrealist Franklin Rosemont tapped the subversive energy of popular culture
Rob Ray
10 August 2025
Radical Reprint: The false dawns of electoral leftism
The results of an election 80 years ago prompted arguments which have familiar, rhyming lines for our modern context
Bleart Thaçi
8 August 2025
The War Game: Still too real to broadcast?
As we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film the BBC suppressed 20 years later is more relevant than ever
Maurice Schuhmann
15 July 2025
You cannot arrest an Arsène Lupin!
A tribute to Maurice Leblanc’s ‘gentleman thief’, an anarchistic cultural icon
Rob Ray
13 July 2025
Radical Reprint: A defence against State overreach
The great and good who had mobilised to fight against attacks on the anarchists’ right to free speech recognised its true threat was broader …
Taib Hayat
12 July 2025
“Northern Lights” at 30
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds
Rob Ray
30 June 2025
Film Review: To Kill A War Machine
This lucid and passionate documentary about Palestine Action is well worth viewing before Starmer’s “social democrats” censor it
Rob Ray
29 June 2025
Book review: Everything To Play For
Marijam Did’s sharply-observed and well researched dive into the politics of gaming fills a major gap in how the Left has approached the subject