Ask difficult questions.
Open forums, conversations and shared research connect economic ideas with everyday experience and lived struggles.
ABOUT FREE / OUR MISSION
An economy that serves people.
The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation is a community of neighbours, organisers and thinkers working together to understand the systems shaping our lives and to build democratic alternatives rooted in care.
KNOWLEDGE · COMMUNITY · ACTION01 / WHY WE EXIST
The economy belongs to everyone.
Our lives are shaped by economic decisions: the cost of housing, conditions at work, the resources available to our neighbourhoods, and the choices that determine our collective future.
FREE brings economic questions into public life. We examine how power and wealth are organised, how local struggles connect to wider systems, and how people can shape different possibilities together.
Learning, imagination and organising belong together. FREE connects public education with the practical work of building collective democratic power.
WHAT GUIDES US
Economic democracy grows through knowledge, participation and collective organising.
02 / HOW WE WORKPeople learning.
01 / PUBLIC EDUCATION 02 / COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES 03 / COLLECTIVE ACTION
People learning.
People organising.
Decide together.
Assemblies create spaces for people to deliberate, develop priorities and practice collective decision-making.
Build alternatives.
Local organising turns shared knowledge into projects, cooperation and practical experiments in economic democracy.
03 / A MOVEMENT IN PLACES
From local assemblies to a global movement.
FREE's work starts with people gathering where they live. Assemblies bring their own priorities and experiences into a growing network of shared learning and democratic experimentation.
The Global Platform helps people discover assemblies, explore their activities and find opportunities to participate.
Explore FREE World04 / READ, LEARN & CONNECT
Go deeper with FREE.
FREE's original About page
Read the organisation's official mission and introduction.
FREE Wiki
Visit FREE's shared knowledge and documentation space.
Start an assembly
Explore FREE's guidance for organising locally.
Official FREE website
Discover FREE's current activities, events and public conversations.
THE NEXT CHAPTER IS COLLECTIVE
There is a place for you in FREE.
Join an existing assembly, connect with the movement or help bring FREE to your community.