Freedom News
First circled A in block letters (1964)

The circled A at 60: The true story

April 19th: The circled A was invented in Paris in 1964 and reinvented in Milan in 1966

The circled A at 60: True and false

April 12th: Tomás Ibáñez debunks several myths about the famous anarchist symbol, which was created only in April 1964

The circled A at 60: Birth of a symbol

April 5th: Tomás Ibáñez gives first-hand testimony on the origins of the famous anarchist symbol, first proposed in April 1964

Radical Reprint: The French Anarchist Conference

September 17th: One of the most useful aspects of sometimes dry reports from gatherings is the snapshot of otherwise amorphous movements — in this case, the French syndicalists and anarchists of 1913.

Radical Reprint: The Labour War in South Africa

August 20th: A historical tale in which South African miners strike while Herbert Gladstone fiddles.

Radical Reprint: The Land and the Labourer

July 23rd: The July 1913 issue of Freedom features a lengthy article hooked on a major strike of agricultural workers in Ormskirk

Radical Reprint: Image of an alternate past

June 25th: A speculative work by two prominent French anarcho-syndicalists, Emile Pouget and Emile Pataud, Syndicalism and the Co-operative Commonwealth (How We Shall Bring about the Revolution)

My arresting experience the day Prince Charles came to town

May 6th: Charles Windsor has form for pre-emptively arresting people who would spoil his parties.

Radical reprint: The Napoli revolt of 1913

March 20th: On a cold day in the wake of a war, starving Italian citizens wanted to put up a poster against raised tariffs but were told to hop it by the government – which in short order was faced with 100,000 protesters and severe rioting.

The Tsar shivered, but not from the cold.

February 5th: In the first weeks of 1913 Russian revolutionary activity, never truly suppressed for all the violence and vindictiveness of the regime, burst once again onto the public stage.