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As the hordes of people who have been to Freedom know, we have for a long time had something of an eccentric setup. On the top floor, alongside a somewhat mysterious office there is the home of the Advisory Service for Squatters.

Ayre, Dave et al “the Flying Pickets. The 1972 Builders' Strike and the Shrewsbury Trials” Des Warren Trust. September 2008 396pp £12.99

Catherwood, Christopher “Making War in the Name of God” Citadel. November 2008. 320pp. £9.99

Frank, Joshua and Jeffrey St Clair “Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland” (USA) AK Press. November 2008. 280pp. £13.00

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Except that’s actually a load of old bollocks. The good General and knight of the realm is being just a little misleading – I’m sure it’s unintentional, him being such a respected state figure and all - when he fails to point out that, unlike the average traffic warden, our boys in khaki also get a number of little perks.

For those of you who aren’t up on what the Newcastle-based Projectile anarchist film festival does, it really provides the main northern answer to the London Anarchist Bookfair as the place for libertarians to get together (though Manchester, Bradford and Glasgow all have their own regular bookfairs, none are on quite the same scale).

Global Fire: 150 Fighting Years of International Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power Vol 2):
by Lucien Van Der Walt (Author), Michael Schmidt (Author)

RRP: £18.00
Product details

* Paperback: 500 pages
* Publisher: AK Press (1 May 2008)
* Language English
* ISBN-10: 1904859682
* ISBN-13: 978-1904859680

Against the State
An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory

Crispin Sartwell - author

$49.50 Hardcover - 124 pages
Release Date: May 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7447-1

$14.95 Paperback - 124 pages
Release Date: May 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7448-8

(also available in UK from amazon etc)

Summary

A new book on Herbert Read has just been published by the Freedom Press, London.

It is called Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read, and contains sixteen essays on Read's writings on anarchism, art, literature and general culture, by authors including Dana Ward, Allan Antliff and Jerry Zaslove. The book is edited by Michael Paraskos.

ChristieBooks now hangs out its digital shingle at

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and expand our multimedia library-archive project.

This is actually a very serious accusation to level.

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Email campaigning has been one of the surprise success stories of the last few years in labour struggle.

Anarchism and Authority
A Philosophical Introduction to Classical Anarchism
Paul McLaughlin
Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

$99.95/£55.00

ANARCHISM, REVOLUTION AND REACTION
Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923
Angel Smith

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/covers/SmithAnarchism.jpg

418 pages, 11 tables, 5 figs, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-176-9 Hb $89.95/£55.00 Published (Summer 2007)

excellent review here (in English):

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-4-192

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Scans your Winamp/Itunes music library and scans tickets for sale in your area and gives you a page of when all the music you listen to is gunna be playing live near you.

Back in November 2006 in this blog, I did a quick analysis of our media and how it compares to the mainstream in any given fortnight (to accommodate the fact that Freedom comes out that often - look at me ma I'm making the sun orbit the earth - also because it's a handy ten-day cycle of workdays).

Forthcoming Attractions – February 2008

Broue, Pierre and Temine, Emile “The Revolution and Civil War in Spain” Haymarket Books, Pbk, 590pp £30.00

St. Clair, Jeffrey “Born Under a Bad Sky. Notes from the dark side of the earth” AK Press, Pbk, 300pp £10.00

Forthcoming Attractions – March 2008

Attached are the submission deadlines for the first half of this year's Freedom, so if any of you budding writers need to check, it's now on here. First of the year is January 10th.

Okay so it looks like we're going to do this thing with making Freedom an A4 size publication, which means the inevitable confusion, tears and recriminations. It's kind of like moving house except the arguments begin with what shape the furniture should be and decorating has to be done by committee.