Category Archives: Analysis
Greece: Update
Update on the tensions and continued social crisis in Greece
“Greece is going to hell, it is going to hell and I am glad it is so that we can comeback and start things from the beginning” These were the last words of an anarchist comrade in Greece as we spoke about events that have [...]
Strangeways prison riot, April 1st 1990
Twenty years ago the very day after the Poll Tax riot erupted in Trafalgar Square prisoners in Manchester’s oldest jail took control of the chapel for the start of what was to become the biggest riot and longest rooftop protest in British penal history and triggered a wave of revolt in over twenty other prisons [...]
Greek capitalism – a tragedy in several parts
Greece is the latest in a line of countries squeezed by the ongoing financial crises continuing to ripple around the world. It is an important case to watch, more so than say Iceland or Ireland, as the situation in Greece is closer to the economic positions of the UK – both have governments who form [...]
Haiti: The Aftershock
Louis Further, Freedom’s US correspondent, takes an indepth look at the political consequences of the Haiti earthquake and examines the history behind Haiti’s current troubles.
Last month’s severe earthquake in Haiti could not have been prevented. The death toll may reach a quarter of a million. Some three million Haitians – a third of the country’s [...]
Getting Active: Football’s coming home
As reported elsewhere in Freedom football fans are becoming more vocal and more militant in their dissent against the corporate take over of the beloved game. The massive explosion in players wages and transfer fees, exorbitant ticket prices, introduction of corporate hospitality sponsorship deals, plus the celebrity lifestyles of the top players and profit-seeking owners [...]
Getting Active: Getting Organised
One of the more intriguing aspects of last year’s impressive Anarchist Movement Conference was the emerging realisation amongst serious anarchists that there was at last a recognisable potential for building a proper movement. To that end it inspired a re-assessment of how anarchists choose to organise with each other, how they work together, how they [...]
Visteon Workers Fight On
Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK.
Visteon UK, formerly the main car parts supplier to Ford, went into administration [...]
A London Conference?
If we are going to have another anarchist movement conference in 2010, then we need to start thinking about it and planning it fairly soon.
With this in mind a couple of us in London, who were involved in the planning of the 2009 conference, have been discussing the options.
At the same time we have [...]
Economic Commentary
In this fifth part of his look at the financial crisis, John Griffin examines the secret handouts given to banks
I thought we’d got to the end of the banking saga, but then on the 24th November Mervyn King (pictured right), Governor of the Bank of England, revealed further handouts to RBS and HBOS which [...]
COP15: Notes From Below
This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the interceding years between these cycles of struggle? And what [...]
