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Radical Reprint: A defence against State overreach

Radical Reprint: A defence against State overreach

The great and good who had mobilised to fight against attacks on the anarchists’ right to free speech recognised its true threat was broader … ~ Rob Ray ~ Sometimes when going back through old issues of Freedom (or War Commentary, as it was in July 1945) articles really do read as though they were

Our Power: Freedom on May Day

Our Power: Freedom on May Day

Editorial from our summer issue, a rare all-colour one, out today with the theme of Our Power – looking at how anarchists and the working class can and have resisted the rightwards ratchet of capitalist politics ~ The issue includes an interview with Toby Shone on prisons and resistance, and retrospectives on Reclaim the Streets,

Radical Reprint: Defence of four London Anarchists

Radical Reprint: Defence of four London Anarchists

As the State’s machinery of repression ground slowly onwards, both the 10 March and 24 March 1945 issues of War Commentary, Freedom’s wartime newspaper, had extensive coverage of anarchists being sent to court, solidarity actions and continued police searches ~ Rob Ray ~ The headline case, following on from raids at the end of 1944

Radical Reprint: Arrests and jail terms for Freedom Press editors

Radical Reprint: Arrests and jail terms for Freedom Press editors

Following raids on Freedom Press by Special Branch, at the behest of the Home Office, which had been reported in January 1945 (recounted in last month’s column), pressure was kept up with a succession of court cases, reported on at length by the right-wing press ~ Rob Ray ~ That the February 24th edition of