Monthly Archives: May, 2011
Freedom #7206 March 26th Protest Special
It’s Kicking Off Big Time March 26th Action Map Legal advice – Do i have to give the cops my name and address? To fight the cuts, make the country ungovernable – Solfed organising Haringey Solidarity Group on organising locally against the cuts Industrial Workers of the World – a different kind of union London [...]
Anarchist Quiz
1. In what context was the word “anarchist” first used in English? » Answer 2. Where was the black flag first used as an explicitly anarchist symbol? » Answer 3. Which defunct European country lives on in an anarchist federation? » Answer 4. Which British city had a general transport strike 100 years ago? » [...]
The Curious Case of Libya
If the period we are living in now is going to be marked by anything at all in history, it will be the so-called Arab Spring. The Spring rose in Tunisia, escalated in Egypt, but it is Libya that will define it – at least for us outsiders. But western involvement in Libya has once [...]
Solidarity for Belarus anarchists
UPDATE: The Zavadski district court of Minsk delivered verdicts to a group of anarchists charged with a series of arsons of governmental buildings, including the Embassy of Russia in Minsk. The court found then guilty and sentenced Ihar Alinevich to 8 years in a medium security penal colony, Mikalai Dzyadok to 4 years in a [...]
Tomlinson’s killer to face trial
PC Simon Harwood who was found guilty of unlawful killing by a jury at the inquest to the death of Ian Tomlinson will face criminal proceedings for his actions. Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions has finally agreed that the riot officer will face charges over the death of the newspaper vendor at the G20 [...]
Still fighting Franco
Probably the most instantly recognisable name in UK anarchism, along with the Angry Brigade, Stuart Christie remains a figure of fearsome political reputation, not least for his attempt to assassinate fascist leader General Franco in 1964. As a young Scottish anarchist he travelled to Spain with the intention of blowing up Franco to aid the [...]
No sleep till Stokes Croft
Comrades from the Bristol Bookfair collective give us their take on the day Bristol’s annual anarchist bookfair on 7th May attracted the largest turnout yet for the fourth year running, as the vitality, creativity and politics of the anarchist movement continues to attract ever greater interest. With the credibility of the established political parties and [...]
Freedom #7210
State repression of the student movement Crisis and capitalism – how the Tories are benefiting from the economic slump Days of Action Against Office Angels and Atos Origin Postal workers update Bristol Bookfair Collective give us their thoughts on their big day Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Stuart Christie: Still fighting Franco Anarchist organising – Nottingham AF [...]
National Days of Action
Radical groups get upfront and active The week of 9-15th May saw not one but two national weeks of action organised by radical groups against companies involved in direct attacks on ordinary working class people. Solidarity Federation (Solfed) led a week long campaign against Office Angels, the agency that provides office temping work, after they [...]
Anarchists organising
As pointed in the letter of Pho Nenayme (23rd April 2011, p11) the Anarchist Federation already supports Freedom and the bookshop in several ways but perhaps members (new or old) could write more for it. It’s good to know via this letter that Freedom would like more AF members to write for it. However, we [...]