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Radical Reprint: A defence against State overreach
Tag: War Commentary
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 w…
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: Freedom struggles against government raids
The beginning of 1945 was a turbulent time for Freedom Press, along with anarchism in Britain and western Europe ~ Rob Ray ~ While the Germans were…
Freedom Press and the MI5 vendetta
Today we’ve uploaded a new set of 25 War Commentary newspapers, mostly covering late 1943 through 1944, to our digital archive and to mark th…
Frank Leech: Why I went on Hunger Strike
The following article by a wartime conscientious objector is taken from an April 1944 issue of War Commentary, brought out by the Freedom Group dur…
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Israeli academia “under command”
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