A fierce working class propagandist, Motler couldn’t stand the stilted, esoteric tones of many anarchist and socialist writers – and wa…
Radical Reprint: The frustration of Leonard Motler
Tag: World War One
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…
Art Young’s dangerous cartoons
Soon after the United States became involved in World War I, the federal government began its prosecution of avant-garde socialist magazine The Ma…
Book Extract: World War, and Freedom’s nadir
When the Great War broke out in 1914 most anarchists took their customary anti-militarist position, but the conflict also led to two of its heavie…
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