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Cole, Clara Gilbert (1868-1956)

Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 16 2012 14:20
Sylvia Pankhurst by Herbert Cole

A short biography of Clara Gilbert Cole,anti-militarist and anarchist

"Clara Gilbert, with her unusual slender loveliness, her deft fingers and vivid imagination, was like a caged bird in the post office.” The Home Front, Sylvia Pankhurst

" A remarkable, sincere and much loved woman". John Hewetson

In defense of the city. Review of 'Common Ground in a Liquid'

Review of Matt Hern's 'Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future'

Matt Hern lives in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver has major endorsements like Expo 86, the Commonwealth games and as recently as 2010 the Winter Olympics and Paralympics under its belt, but on top of that with Melbourne, a business review recently granted the city has being a top example of a ‘livable city’.

Due process? Review of 'Come Hell or High Water'

Review of Delfina Vannucci & Richard Singer's 'Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry'

I was tickled recently to find climate camp spent five days trying to reach a consensus over whether to disband. Along with an overdrawn practice to the point of tedium, consensus has hand signals that work in tandem with the process that are, has someone put it, ‘alienating culty shit’.

Freedom, Vol 1 #1

The first-ever issue of Freedom newspaper, subtitled A journal of anarchist socialism, dated October 1886.

Motler, Leonard Augustine, 1888-1967

Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 2 2011 16:47

A short biography of Leonard Motler, English anarchist, deaf mute and activist against the First World War.

[i]“I went round to help Freedom at its Ossulston Street offices… Working there were two deaf-mutes, L.A.Motler and G.Scates, who were respectively editor and manager of Satire: a paper of social criticism, the only illustrated anarchist periodical in English to have appeared.

Anarchists in court, England, April 1945

Submitted by Boris Badenov on Jun 1 2010 17:30
Cartoon from War Commentary

This article describes the British state's efforts to suppress the anti-militarist views expressed by the anarchist paper War Commentary and the Freedom Press group during World War II, and the subsequent popular campaign that sprung up in defense of the paper in particular, and freedom of the press in general.

Introduction

During the last difficult months of World War II, four anarchists were prosecuted by the British authorities on the suspicion of having disseminated ideas that might incite members of the armed forces to desert. While the Allied victory was almost certain, the English authorities wanted to make clear that discipline would be maintained until the final shot had been fired.

Marsh, Alfred 1858-1914

Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 8 2010 21:00
Alfred Marsh

A short biography of Alfred Marsh, English anarchist communist who doggedly kept the Freedom newspaper going for many years

Alfred Marsh was born in Clerkenwell ( like Guy Aldred, another anarchist communist) on 3rd November 1858. His mother died whilst he was young and his father, of Radical persuasions, was a close friend of the Freethought pioneer George Holyoake. His second marriage was to a daughter of Holyoake.

Cantwell, Thomas Edward, 1864-1906

Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 6 2010 17:22
Tom Cantwell ( back left) with Charles Mowbray ( centre) and others

A short biography of Tom Cantwell, anarchist active in the Socialist League and with Freedom

"Cantwell was neither a great writer nor speaker, yet he did both well whenever he made the attempt. His specialty was spade work. He often comes to my mind when I listen to the excuses of those who think they cannot be useful without genius.

Bailouts, co-operatives or class struggle - a debate

A debate between Iain McKaye and the libcom group about an adequate workers' response to the credit crunch - should we advocate nationalisation, co-op's, or struggle?

The initial two articles were published simultaneously in Freedom newspaper, the latter responses were published online.

Propagandist - what the papers said about anarchism and G20

In the absence of a realistic threat to the status quo from Islamic fundamentalists, the state has tentatively been trying to paint anarchists as a parallel and growing internal threat to the nation.

Despite minimal evidence, the conjecture of the police that a major anarchist atrocity is inevitable has been taken almost verbatim by the mainstream media and was pushed even further during the G20, with several ludicrous stories appearing about what the movement might get up to appearing.

Rob Ray picks some of the best for Freedom.

Daily Mail

Not, for once, the most hysterical voice around – an honour which must go to the Evening Standard. However their suggestion that activists ‘pelted police with bottles as they tried to save a dying protester’, echoed uncritically from the police report by every other major paper, was among the most vicious libels to appear.