Category Archives: Editorial
Freedom editorial
It’s been a bleak beginning to the year 2010. Not only has January been the coldest month in over twenty years, right in the middle of a global recession and continuing financial crisis, but we have lost, in quick succession, some of the greatest political minds, radical thinkers and inspired anarchist comrades of our lifetime.
Both [...]
Goodbye Noughties
Time for us to take a retrospective look at the decade. In December 1999 things were looking up for libertarian politics. The upsurge of protests from the campaign against the Criminal Justice Act in 1994 had intertwined with more traditional anarchist strands to forge a genuine alternative to the perceived triumph of liberal democracy. The [...]
From The Editors: Looking Back, Looking Forward
How we got to here
A front page article in Freedom a few months back stated that we are living through a unique set of social conditions. Add to that strange and turbulent times and it gives a fair indication of the last six months as editors of Freedom newspaper. Both of us were literally thrown [...]
How we got to here
A turbulent year in politics
Editorial A front page article in Freedom a few months back stated that we are living through a unique set of social conditions. Add to that strange and turbulent times and it gives a fair indication of the last six months as editors of Freedom newspaper. Both of us were [...]
Copping the Bill
The HMIC report on protest policing – a new direction or a triumph of style over substance?
There is no denying that the latest report on the policing of protest by the HMIC (Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary) is hugely critical of the police. Throughout the 220-page document there are many polite ways of saying that [...]
It’s Still ‘No Comment’
As new people become involved, it periodically becomes necessary to repeat things that every anarchist, and indeed every person, should know about what to do if arrested. So once again we return to the issue of the right to silence, and in particular what to do when interviewed in custody. We focus specifically on this [...]
Where Does The Anarchist Movement Go Now?
When the Anarchist Movement conference ended back in June 2009 most people thought the event a worthwhile experience, and on balance thought it should happen again soon. The feeling was definitely positive and five or six embryonic groups came out of the final session.
Oh, how memories fade. Once the conference was over the knives came [...]
Anarchists and co-operation with the left
Over the last few weeks there have been various initiatives from the left to woo a larger anti-Labour Party front to fight the elections. We as anarchists have historically not got involved on in the election machine as we have always seen it as irrelevant and divisive. But there have been developments which mean that, [...]
