The Raven #34: Communication (3) Language

An illustration from a "Little Plum" cartoon by Leo Baxendale.

An issue of this anarchist journal published by Freedom Press in 1997, with a focus on language.

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Contents

Editorial - Neil Birrell
Reprieve for Babel - Neil Birrell
Esperanto from an Anarchist's Point of View - Max Nettlau
Newspeak - Brian Lesley
Language and its origins - John Zerzan
Literacy and the myth of mutual aid - Denis Pym
The mythology of technology: the internet as utopia - Jesse Hirsh
Anarchist impressions - Jonathan Simcock
Letterpress apprentice blues - 1993 - Dennis Gould
The Beano and "national consciousness" - Leo Baxendale
Fictitious anarchists in The Man Who Was Thursday - Donald Rooum
Language, thought and communicating rebellious ideas - Amorey Gethin

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