Megan Williams
16 March 2025
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: Internationalist poet
An early British anti-fascist, her working-class voice was powerful and unique
Features
Rob Ray
9 March 2025
Radical Reprint: Defence of four London Anarchists
As the State’s machinery of repression ground slowly onwards, War Commentary had extensive coverage of anarchists being sent to court, solidarity actions and continued police searches
Freedom Press
25 February 2025
Freedom seeks contributions to May print issue
The title theme this time: “Our Power”
Cristiaan Verwey
11 February 2025
Joke Kaviaar: “We make music very clearly from an anarchist point of view”
The poet and performer is a veteran of the Dutch grassroots movement
Rob Ray
9 February 2025
Radical Reprint: Arrests and jail terms for Freedom Press editors
Following raids on Freedom Press by Special Branch, at the behest of the Home Office, which had been reported in January 1945 (recounted in last month’s column), pressure was kept up with a succession of court cases, reported on at length by the right-wing press
Don B.
7 February 2025
Report from Derry Radical Bookfair
My expectations were high, and I was not disappointed over the weekend
La Grappe
24 January 2025
In pictures: Land occupation against HS rail in France
A new zone to defend, La Guinguette Vaillante opposes the destruction of natural habitats north of Toulouse
Maurice Schuhmann
9 January 2025
Remembering Louise Michel: “Now I have only the revolution left”
120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire
Ben Cowles
5 January 2025
Haunting old ruins at the edges of Fortress Europe
Following No Name Kitchen as they do vital solidarity work with migrants on the Bosnia-Croatia border
Rabihan Luleci
3 January 2025
Book review: Woman, Life, Freedom
Directed by celebrated graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, this variety of insightful vignettes also leaves out minority voices
Eloísa Benvenutti de Andrade
23 December 2024
Feminism and anarchism in Brazil
Anarchist and libertarian feminism in Brazil was created as a revolutionary project for material independence from the “sink, kitchen, and bed” triad
Alisa-Ece Tohumcu
22 December 2024
The story of A-infos
This year is the 30th anniversary of A-infos—the multilingual news clearing-house that pioneered anarchist publishing on the web
Rob Ray
15 December 2024
Radical Reprint: The frustration of Leonard Motler
A fierce working class propagandist, Motler couldn’t stand the stilted, esoteric tones of many anarchist and socialist writers – and wasn’t shy in saying so
Agência de Notícias Anarquistas
11 December 2024
Report from Porto Alegre Anarchist bookfair
Keeping the flame of anarchist agitation alive and spreading throughout the city, meetings between anti-authoritarian individuals and those eager for change, and distributing books and publications—we gathered in the hall of the Acadêmicos da Orgia Samba School
Rob Ray
8 December 2024
Anarch-iversaries: Miners’ strike and the Carnival Against Capital
Looking back to two events that shaped the last decades’ radical history