Freedom
Regular London-based anarchist newspaper, co-founded in 1886 by Peter Kropotkin and published regularly since 1936.
Bailouts, co-operatives or class struggle - a debate
A debate between Iain McKaye and the libcom group about an adequate workers' response to the credit crunch - should we advocate nationalisation, co-op's, or struggle?
The initial two articles were published simultaneously in Freedom newspaper, the latter responses were published online.
Propagandist - what the papers said about anarchism and G20
In the absence of a realistic threat to the status quo from Islamic fundamentalists, the state has tentatively been trying to paint anarchists as a parallel and growing internal threat to the nation.
Despite minimal evidence, the conjecture of the police that a major anarchist atrocity is inevitable has been taken almost verbatim by the mainstream media and was pushed even further during the G20, with several ludicrous stories appearing about what the movement might get up to appearing.
Rob Ray picks some of the best for Freedom.
Daily Mail
Not, for once, the most hysterical voice around – an honour which must go to the Evening Standard. However their suggestion that activists ‘pelted police with bottles as they tried to save a dying protester’, echoed uncritically from the police report by every other major paper, was among the most vicious libels to appear.
Ecology and its recuperation by capitalists
Brian Morris rings the changes for Freedom newspaper
Long ago the biologist Paul Sears described ecology as the "subversive science", and there is no doubt that when I first became involved in environmental issues in the 1960's, ecology was seen very much as a radical movement.
Masters of war
As 2007 began, Robert Walsh looked into the world of arms dealing for Freedom newspaper as pressure piled up on BAE systems over their arms sales to dictators scandal.
A second major investigation into arms sales from BAE looks likely to run aground as South African government authorities have blocked investigators looking into the sale of Hawk Jet trainers and Gripen fighters to the state.
Rebels without a pause
In May 2007, Freedom correspondent Nancy Davies reported from Oaxaca one year after the Mexican rebellion began, and found dissent alive and well.
In May 2006, the Oaxaca Popular Movement coalesced striking teachers, dominated by 60,000 from Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) who covered fifty blocks with tents and sleeping bags, cookware and laundry, kids’ drawings and soda cases.
Interview with a disillusioned UK ex-full-time union official
‘RPG’ is an anarchist who worked for trade unions from 1986 until the spring of 2007. He talks to Freedom about the lessons he learned
How did you originally get into union work?
North of the border: a look at anarchism in Scotland
Rob Ray interviews Declan of the Alba Anarchist Federation and Nick Durie of Praxis Glasgow in this 2008 feature for Freedom newspaper.
Scotland has had a strong tradition of class struggle. Are there many links between today’s younger and older radicals?
The grand bluff: private profits, social risks
In this 2008 feature for Freedom, published shortly after the first major bank bailout as the recession began to bite, Iain McKay explains the cost of believing big business
With the financial markets in a panic, the calls for bailouts have increased – and the bank of England has responded with a huge rates cut, while Brown has underwritten banks to the tune of billions.
Democratic Russia has little cause for optimism
In this interview originally published in Freedom in 2008, Rob Ray talks to Vadim, a Russian anarchist, about the state of the country in that year.
Rob Ray: What is the economic situation in Russia at the moment?
Crimethinc and the corrupting influence of art
In this article for Freedom, first published in 2008, Jim L looks at the gulf between creations enjoyed by the masses and Art for the elites
The left has always had something of a love affair with art. From the mural paintings of the Mexican revolution, to the Bolshevik Constructivists and Left Front of the Arts, to the Situationist International.
