Category Archives: Analysis
Social Festival of Anti-fascist Culture, Bologna 2010
A report back from the international anti-fascist festival in Italy Freedom were invited to attend the annual “Festival Sociale delle Culture Antifasciste”, Bologna, an initiative that started in 2009 and organised predominately by “Ex-Mercato 24″ a social centre based in Via Fourivanti, a popular working class neighbourhood in central Bologna, in the process of mass [...]
The English Defence League
Who are the EDL, what motivates them and why are we unable to connect with the very people they are attracting – the disenfranchised working class. Once again working class kids are out on the streets, kicking back at authority, attacking conservatives and the cosy status quo, standing up for freedom, ridiculing religion and battling [...]
Deep Economy
A two part analysis by John Griffin exploring the contradictions between green economics and radical ecology PART I: ecology economics and culture in relation to anarchist theory The recent Copenhagen talks on climate change showed the huge gulf between what most ecologists say, and the behaviour of most people and their governments. Most appear to [...]
Under the Volcano
Freedom takes a look at response by the airline industry to the recent volcano eruption in Iceland and questions the economic motivations behind it. Within the past week, increasingly serious concerns have been raised over the motivations that reopened UK airspace to commercial flights after Eyjafjallajökull’s ongoing eruption spewed a cloud of fine volcanic ash [...]
Anti: manifesto – 2010 Election Special
The issues behind the election promises Once every five years we are asked to vote for MPs who we entrust to make decisions on our behalf for our best interests. Parliamentary democracy is based on the illusion our needs and our concerns will be best represented by those we elect. In reality MPs in power [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
