This week we turn back to 1978, and another international football tournament legitimating a dictatorship ~ punkacademic ~ So it’s finally here: …
Radical Reprint: World Cup (fascist) fever
Tag: Radical reprint
Radical Reprint: Beware the lesser of two evils
We turn back time to 1970 for an anarchist plea not to settle for the fantasy politics of the electoral machine ~ punkacademic ~ We’re in a fever…
Radical Reprint: Remembering the Poll Tax revolt
Thirty-six years on, Freedom revisits the 1990 Poll Tax riots and considers their legacy ~ punkacademic ~ For folks of a certain age (me), the …
Radical Reprint: Iran and the empires
A British- and American-sponsored coup in Iran caused widespread bloodshed in 1953 — then, as now, states are aggressors and people are victi…
Radical Reprint: The false dawns of electoral leftism
The results of an election 80 years ago prompted arguments which have familiar, rhyming lines for our modern context ~ Rob Ray ~ At long last, afte…
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 …
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 mo…
Radical Reprint: The frustration of Leonard Motler
A fierce working class propagandist, Motler couldn’t stand the stilted, esoteric tones of many anarchist and socialist writers – and wa…
Radical Reprint: Conflict and class struggle
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
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
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…
Radical Reprint: Austria declares war, the world is on the brink
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
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…
Radical Reprint: The Ludlow Strike
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…
Radical Reprint: The Voice of Labour
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…
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