History
Radical Reprint: Freedom struggles against government raids
January 12th: The beginning of 1945 was a turbulent time for Freedom Press, along with anarchism in Britain and western Europe ~ Rob Ray ~ While the Germans were mounting their last, doomed offensive, the outcome of World War II was already no longer in doubt.
Remembering Louise Michel: “Now I have only the revolution left”
January 9th: 120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905.
Feminism and anarchism in Brazil
December 23rd: Anarchist and libertarian feminism in Brazil was created as a revolutionary project for material independence from the “sink, kitchen, and bed” triad ~ Eloísa Benvenutti de Andrade, from Patos à Esquerda ~ Anarchist women in Brazil have, from the beginning, made a major contribution to identifying the feminine in the constitution of feminist thought as
The story of A-infos
December 22nd: This year is the 30th anniversary of A-infos—the multilingual news clearing-house that pioneered anarchist publishing on the web ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ A shift in global communication was underway in the 1990s, and as digital networks began to transform the dissemination of information there was a need for a decentralised, non-hierarchical platform to facilitate the
Radical Reprint: The frustration of Leonard Motler
December 15th: 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 ~ Rob Ray ~ Freedom was contacted, around this time last year, by a small production company interested in doing a documentary for the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust.
Anarch-iversaries: Miners’ strike and the Carnival Against Capital
December 8th: Looking back to two events that shaped the last decades’ radical history ~ Scott Harris ~ We can’t let this year pass without tributes for two big anniversaries in radical political history.
“All of a sudden the streets were ablaze”: Nikos Romanos and legacy of the Greek revolt
December 6th: 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 ~ Neil Middleton ~ The recent arrest of Nikos Romanos, following the widely publicised explosion in an Athens apartment, took place in the run-up
Radical Reprint: Conflict and class struggle
November 17th: The anarchist split over the Great War (WW1) burst into print in November 1914, with grave consequences ~ Rob Ray ~ One of the most famous articles Freedom ever carried, at least in historical terms, was a piece by Errico Malatesta, that titan of the Italian anarchist movement, entitled ‘Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles‘, in
A cautionary tale from my Russian anarchist great-grandfather
October 22nd: On the danger of sacrificing principle for pragmatism ~ George Askaroff ~ When faced with substantial external pressure and uncertainty, principles of liberty are often sacrificed in the name of ‘pragmatism’.
Radical Reprint: Anarchism in China
October 6th: There is a very obvious article to reprint from the October 1914 issue of Freedom, which is precisely why I’m selecting a different one.
