History
Anarch-iversaries: Miners’ strike and the Carnival Against Capital
December 8th: Looking back to two events that shaped the last decades’ radical history ~ Scott Harris ~ We can’t let this year pass without tributes for …
Radical Reprint: Conflict and class struggle
November 17th: The anarchist split over the Great War (WW1) burst into print in November 1914, with grave consequences ~ Rob Ray ~ One of the most famous articles…
Radical Reprint: Anarchism in China
October 6th: There is a very obvious article to reprint from the October 1914 issue of Freedom, which is precisely why I’m selecting a different one.
Radical reprint: War arrived, and with it the anarchists despaired
September 29th: By the time Freedom‘s September issue hit the streets in 1914 the disaster that was to become known as World War One was already underway, an…
The circled A at 60 part three: The true story
August 28th: The circled A is a symbol so widespread, so widely recognised and disseminated that it has come to be taken as a traditional symbol of anarchism, s…
The circled A at 60 part one: Birth of a symbol
August 23rd: Tomás Ibáñez gives first-hand testimony on the origins of the famous anarchist symbol, first proposed in April 1964
My arresting experience the day Prince Charles came to town
August 20th: Charles Windsor has form for pre-emptively arresting people who would spoil his parties.
Radical Reprint: Austria declares war, the world is on the brink
August 11th: The international political grouping around Freedom was aware of the threatened onrush of what was to become World War I — and wrote with inc…
Radical Reprint: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
July 14th: For its July issue Freedom of course led with the most infamous event of the moment, and as ever was not shy in its take, headlining a short, wry r…
“Let the dead rest – and fulfill their hopes”: Remembering Erich Mühsam
July 10th: The anarchist author and poet, murdered by the Nazis on July 10, 1934, is now part of Germany’s literary canon
Radical Reprint: The Ludlow Strike
June 16th: In June 1914 much of that month’s edition of Freedom was given over to a lengthy analysis in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre, one of the…
Remembering Wat Tyler: Stakes are head high
June 15th: Standing up against rape, murder and repression remains at the heart of our acts of resistance
Radical Reprint: The Voice of Labour
May 19th: With militarism and the expectation of a war in Europe on the rise, Freedom‘s approach wasn’t getting as much of a bump in readership a…
Art Young’s dangerous cartoons
May 4th: Soon after the United States became involved in World War I, the federal government began its prosecution of avant-garde socialist magazine The Ma…
“No Gods, No Masters, No Husbands”
April 27th: An exhibition showcases women editors, translators, proofreaders, typographers and packagers in anarchist print culture
