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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

How valuable are “British values”?

How valuable are “British values”?

A teacher and philosophical anarchist reflects on schools’ imposed language – I have two confessions to make; First, I am part of the state system: I am a teacher, inculcating society’s rules in this sociocultural context since the mid-1990s. I entered the world of education with the notion that it could empower others. I’d worked with younger students, those who had fallen by the wayside, or perhaps more appropriately, those who had been failed by the system. I had the belief that I could change the system, especially as an academic. Yet the system appears exceedingly averse to change.

Orwell among the anarchists

Orwell among the anarchists

Vernon, Richards George Orwell at Home (and Among the Anarchists): Essays and Photographs, (1998) London: Freedom Press. Photographs by Vernon Richards. Essays by Vernon Richards, Colin Ward, and Nicholas Walter. Review by Raymond S. Solomon There are few people who had the knowledge and understanding of George Orwell as did the three contributors to George

Double book analysis: Peter Davison on George Orwell

Double book analysis: Peter Davison on George Orwell

In this review and analysis piece, Raymond S. Solomon discusses works by George Orwell and annotations by Peter Davison in two of the Orwell expert’s books, exploring the turbulent 1930s including issues around Palestine, the Spanish revolution, and the beating of Oswald Mosely’s British Union of Fascists. BOOKS REVIEWED Davison, Peter (ed.) (2013) George Orwell: A Life In