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. ~ Rob Ray ~ The obvious article is ‘A Letter on The Present War’, an infamous piece by Peter Kropotkin in which he called on anarchists to “to do everything in
Tag: World War 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, and anarchists found themselves shouting sanity into a world that no longer wanted to listen ~ Rob Ray ~ The edition is a curious beast, mixing a thunderous front page
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 increasing desperation in its August 1914 issue, calling on workers to resist calls to arms as Austria used the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to justify an imperial invasion. The declaration of
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 Masses for anti-war activity. Among those charged was cartoonist Art Young, who also contributed to several IWW publications.
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 heaviest hitters, Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin, throwing down in the pages of anarchist journal Freedom. In the following extract from A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press Anarchists, Rob Ray