Freedom News

Freedom subscriptions and mail orders

Most online orders have now been sent out but there are a few where we haven’t got the titles or t-shirts to hand. The latest issue of Freedom is being posted out this week, and special apologies to international subscribers who won’t have got the last issue as it was incinerated before it could be posted.

Rainbow shop opens

While we do repairs and renovations downstairs after the firebomb attack, we’ve opened a substitute bookshop upstairs. It’s been designed by ‘Isla’™ and is known as the rainbow bookshop because all the books are sorted by colour. This isn’t as silly as it might sound. Firstly everything will have to be moved downstairs again in a

How you can help

We’d like to thank the many people who have already helped us try and sort out the mess after the firebomb at the bookshop. With your help we will be back better than ever! The clean-up continues on Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th and Friday 8th February from 1pm, so spread the word. All welcome. A lot of

The December crossword

Apologies to readers who wondered what was going on with December’s prize crossword by Bjarni Halfnelson. There was a glitch and the wrong grid was inserted, but here’s the correct one (the clues are as they appeared in the December issue). The closing date for entries is Monday 14th February 2013. You can send your

Bookshop re-opens

Following Friday’s firebomb attack we’ve had an amazing response from people worldwide. So much so that we will be able to open the shop on Monday 4th February for business… not quite as usual, but reasonably close. Our stock is somewhat reduced, but now features some interesting fire-damaged memorabilia. As so much of our stock

Freedom, December 2012

December 2012 issue of Freedom The December 2012 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical bookshops or social centres. Stockists: » Freedom Bookshop, London » Housmans bookshop, London » LARC, London » 56a Infoshop, London » Newham Bookshop, London » Pogo Cafe, London » Rough Trade, east London » Rough Trade, west London » Whitechapel Art Gallery,

The clean-up continues

We would like to thank everyone who came down on Saturday to help clean up the shop. We have been awestruck by the tremendous solidarity that’s been shown and also for the many supportive messages and donations that have been sent to us from around the world. The clean-up will be continuing at the bookshop

Freedom firebombed

The bookshop has been firebombed. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but there’s quite a lot of damage from both the fire and the water used to douse the flames. If you’d like to help us sort out some of the mess, please come down to the shop on Saturday 2nd February from 1pm and give us a