Category Archives: Editorial
Times are a changin’
Freedom’s December issue editorial As the turbulence of 2011 subsides just enough for us to catch our breath and look back over the last 12 months of a truly eventful year, it seems amongst the chaos and cacophony there were moments we can take as inspiration, some we can take comfort from and others that [...]
Go out and get ‘em – 2012
Are we going to make predictions about 2012? Certainly a degree of bravado and bluster is always necessary for someone to step up to the soapbox and preach the bleeding obvious about what is ahead of us, and the anarchist movement is littered with discarded soapboxes. Do we even dare to imagine what responses the [...]
Fighting talk for the future
Welcome to the new bigger, bolder, brighter Freedom newspaper. We ourselves are still coming to terms with the changed format, different layout and new content (and the novelty of having staples and internal colour pages) so we ask you to bear with us until we settle into a workable routine. We will continue to ask [...]
Freedom ‘March 26th’ special – contributions wanted
Dear Comrades, Freedom, the oldest and only regular anarchist newspaper, is preparing a ‘March 26th special’ to be distributed on the big national TUC demo. We are looking to double the print run to get as much anarchist and alternative propaganda, information and ideas out about the cuts to the widest possible audience on the [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
