Fight? for What? Poem read at the Old Bailey Extracts from a paper which was said to have advocated anarchy, and verses of a poem which asked that landlords should do the fighting, were read…
Anarchists against the Army - Philip Sansom Philip Sansom — one of the editors of War Commentary / Freedom found guilty of incitement to disaffection — describes the background to the trial…
The abolition of work - Bob Black Bob Black argues for the abolition of forced labour and instead its replacement by playful forms of production and activity. We have…
Tom Mann's memoirs The personal memoirs of syndicalist Tom Mann. While we disagree with much of his politics, such as his support for the Stalinist Communist Party,…
Community turns out in force for the Halesowen 4 On Saturday 26th January over 200 people took to the streets of Halesowen to demand the reinstatement of four members of the Maths department who…
54 - Wu Ming 1954. Hollywood actors, cold warriors, mobsters, drug dealers and homing pigeons. What will Yugoslavian president Tito do, now that Joe Stalin is dead? What is the hidden link between Lucky…
The case against voting - Colin Ward An article from Freedom newspaper (1987) - No politician of any colour likes a non-voter. Last week Labour MP Tony Banks introduced a bill in an…
Witness for the Prosecution - Colin Ward The revival of interest in anarchism at the time of the Spanish Revolution in 1936 led to the publication of Spain and the World, a fortnightly…
Leaflet for which Tom Mann was jailed in 1912 The first issue of The Syndicalist reprinted a ‘Don’t Shoot’ letter originally published in The Irish Worker and written by a Liverpool building…
GI revolts: The breakdown of the US army in Vietnam - Richard Boyle Two stories of revolts by US troops, including the shooting of a top sergeant and the mutiny of…
Anthropology: Reclaiming the dragon (what was primitive communism?) - Lionel Sims Article arguing that class society and patriarchy only arose ten to twenty thousand years ago. For…