Freedom Press pamphlets An overview of the early pamphlets published by Freedom Press. Written by Barry Pateman for Kate Sharpley Library.
Notes on Freedom and the Freedom Press 1886-1986 - Heiner Becker A detailed history of the early years of Britain's anarchist newspaper Freedom. Originally published…
Thomas Keell 1866-1938 This extract is from a centenary history of Freedom, published in 1986. Written by Heiner Becker, it offers as full a biography as we're likely…
A beautiful idea: history of the Freedom Press anarchists by Rob Ray [Book review] A review of Rob Ray's 2018 history of Freedom Press taken from KSL: the Bulletin of the Kate…
The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle The revolution in Rojava captured the imagination of the left, sparking a worldwide interest in the…
Capitalism vs. freedom A review of a book that systematically refutes right-wing "libertarianism." Forward this to all your libertarian friends.
Marsh, Alfred 1858-1914 A short biography of Alfred Marsh, English anarchist communist who doggedly kept the Freedom newspaper going for many years
Anarchism: what it is and what it isn't - Chaz Bufe A short article addressing common misconceptions about anarchism, and explaining what it really means.
The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III The Sociology of Freedom is the fascinating third volume of a five-volume work titled The Manifesto…
Reflections on Freedom JOHN DAVEY recently left school where he edited a magazine with the superscription "if we have offended our offensive community, we are not offended."
London's anarchist HQ: 127 Ossulston St, 1894-1927 Originally written for the Freedom building fundraising blog as part off a history series kicking off the campaign, this article looks at the…
Land, law and decades of devastating douchebaggery This article looks at the recent wave of community protests in South Africa with a focus on the case of Freedom Park in Soweto
Challenges to Freedom: From Nihilism to Anarchist Rebirth Notes on the Anarchist Impulse and Its Necessary Return to the West
Critique’s quarrel with church and state (excerpt) - Edgar Bauer The young Edgar Bauer (1820-1886) was credited by Gustav Landauer and Max Nettlau with founding the…
Freedom bookshop torched London based anarchist bookshop Freedom was damaged in an arson attack in the early hours of Friday morning. Nobody was hurt in the fire which…
Freedom must be saved The potential closure of an iconic publication such as ‘Freedom’ is an absolute travesty, and would be in whatever circumstances that it may have…
Escape from freedom - Erich Fromm The pursuit of freedom has indelibly marked Western culture since Renaissance humanism and Protestantism began the fight for individualism and self-determination.
Man, Society, and Freedom - Mikhail Bakunin Translated and edited by Sam Dolgoff, 1971. Man, Society and Freedom is taken from a long, unfinished note to The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the…
100 years of Freedom A collection of writings celebrating the 100th anniversary of Freedom newspaper from 1986. We do not agree with all of the articles but reproduce…
100 years of anarchism in New Zealand celebrated today 100 years ago today, 9 July, the Freedom Group was formed in Wellington, New Zealand.
An agreement of the people - John Wildman A short appeal from army regiments under the sway of the Levellers for peace and political reform to more equally distribute power within England…
Dryhurst, Nannie Florence, 1856-1930 A short biography of anarchist Nannie Dryhurst, active in the Freedom group.
Berneri, Marie Louise, 1918-1949 Marie Louise Berneri was a leading member of the Freedom Group during the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and until her early death.
Revolutionary Catechism A programmatic statement of 1866 (not to be confused with Nechayev's notorious Catechism).
A Tale of Two Mobilizations: South Asian Truckers Build Class Solidarity, “Freedom Convoy” Builds Fascism At the same time as the far Right Freedom Convoy was organizing and then carrying…
Direct Action (SolFed) #26 2003 Anarcho-syndicalist magazine published by the Solidarity Federation, the theme of this issue is freedom.
Freedom (September 1988) Issue of Freedom, volume 49, issue 9, with articles about the Iran-Iraq war and more.
The Promise of an Anarchist Sociological Imagination A pamphlet integrating C. Wright Mills' sociological imagination with anarchist principles.
Autonomy and daily life - Spinoza and Kant's imperative: "Treat others and yourself as ends, not as means" - humanaesfera A short text about the basics of materialist ethics, our power to change the…
Dunn, Fred 1884-1925 A short biography of English anarchist Fred Dunn, active opponent of the First World War.
The law of freedom in a platform - Gerrard Winstanley Set out in 1652, this is Winstanley's vision for a future without money or such extreme laws of…
Freedom 1972 From Sparrowsnest Archive http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/PAR0335.pdf
Freedom of speech: a libertarian perspective A critical examination of the concept of free speech, examining some of the background assumptions that common claims about free speech rest on.
Charlotte Wilson (1854-1944) - Jeff Shantz A brief biography of Charlotte Wilson, Fabian Society member and anarchist. Wilson, with Peter Kropotkin, founded the anarchist newspaper Freedom…
Cantwell, Thomas Edward, 1864-1906 A short biography of Tom Cantwell, anarchist active in the Socialist League and with Freedom
Notes on the Freedom Anarchist Newspaper Archive When Freedom updated its website back in October I took the opportunity to start a side project I've been meaning to do for a while - digitising…
Do you join the Party to fuck or do you fuck to join the Party? Iulia: A participant in the queer and anarchist movements
The Destructive Urge Marxism's greatest discovery is that it cannot prescribe any science of revolution, any fail-safe program. On the contrary what it provides is a…
Our struggle must goes beyond what our lifestyle demands This article points out a couple of issues that are slowing down our movement. They are single…
Gavril Miasnikov's Reply to Lenin's Letter (August 1921) Miasnikov's response to Lenin's letter criticizing Miasnikov's activities in the Perm region. Much…
Crimes of Freedom - Collective Inventions (1979) Situationist text circulated at Gay Freedom Day march in San Francisco on June 24th 1979. The text expresses solidarity with participants in the…
The Specific Organisation An English translation of the text produced by Jaime Cubero in São Paulo, Brazil. It deals with the concept of individual and collective responsibility within the specific anarchist organisation
2006 in focus 2006 was a year for the state to forget there was ever a public sector. Rob Ray looks into the archives of the Freedom anarchist newspaper.
Lenin on 'freedom of love' as a bourgeois demand Letters from Lenin to Inessa Armand Written on 1915 where he describes 'freedom of love' as a bourgeois demand. Furthermore freedom of love is…
George Barrett, anarchists and the Great Unrest Freedom Press published a selection of essays by 1910s anarchist activist George Barrett, Our Masters Are Helpless, at the start of this month…
A Modern Anarchism (Part 2): Anarchy This essay is part 2 in a series wherein I develop a modern anarchist synthesis, taking into account the progress of the sciences and the results…
Sewing freedom: Philip Josephs, transnationalism & early New Zealand anarchism - Jared Davidson Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the…
‘We can’t leave the idea of freedom to the far right!’ – Sergio Bologna on the ‘anti-vax’ movement We translated this text (https://www.officinaprimomaggio.eu/non-regaliamo…
Woman's freedom - Lily Gair Wilkinson An interesting anarchist-communist feminist text first published by Freedom Press in 1914.
Freedom Spring 2016 Reduced paper focusing on reproductive rights, homelessness and the Panama papers.
White Rose - Leaflet 6 The sixth and final leaflet of the German anti-Nazi group the White Rose, produced in February 1943. White Rose founder member Sophie Scholl was spotted by a Nazi Party member distributing them at the Munich University. The remainder of the group was then rounded up, its leaders beheaded and supporters jailed.
The Anarchist Concept of the Revolution - Luigi Fabbri This text forms the bulk of a key chapter from Luigi Fabbri's 1921 work, 'Dictatorship and…
Freedom (October 1886) The first-ever issue of Freedom newspaper, subtitled A journal of anarchist socialism, dated October 1886.
Anarchists in court, England, April 1945 This article describes the British state's efforts to suppress the anti-militarist views expressed by the anarchist paper War Commentary and the…
Gerrard Winstanley: 17th Century Communist at Kingston - Christopher Hill A lecture delivered at Kingston University in 1996 by the great historian of the English Civil War…
Freedom September 17, 2005 NB// This is a bit rough and ready as I'm testing a new scanning wand, but what the hey.
Freedom: is it a crime? - Herbert Read The strange case of the three anarchists jailed at the Old Bailey, April 1945. Two speeches by Herbert Read. Foreword by E Silverman. Published…
An Address to the Anarchists - Antonio Gramsci, 1920 Writing on the eve of the April 1920 Turin general strike led by factory councils, Gramsci attacks the Italian anarchists in a rather patronising…
Self-Organization instead of Democratic Fools' Freedom Leaflet by the German Council Communist group "Unabhängigen Rätekommunisten" where they critique…
Bolshevism: Promises and Reality – Gregori Maximov A short pamphlet entitled 'Bolshevism Promises and Reality' (An appraisal of the results of the Marxist dictatorship over Russia) written by…
Anarchists against World War I: two little known events - Abertillery and Stockport A short account of little known episodes in the history of anarchist opposition to World War One
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement - Akinyele Omowale Umoja Akinyele Omowale Umoja demonstrates how black armed resistance was critical to the…
Anarchism not suitable - Anton Pannekoek Short piece by Anton Pannekoek arguing why he believes anarcism is unsuitable for revolutionary organisation.
Braveheart and Scottish nationalism Article on national self-determination in Scotland. Written by Iain MacSaorsa, Scottish Anarchist, number 3, the magazine of Scottish Federation…
The dubious virtues of propaganda: Ken Loach's "Land and Freedom" - Gilles Dauvé Gilles Dauvé reviews Ken Loach's film on the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom.
The ghost of freedom always comes with the knife between its teeth, 2008 Statement of the Surrealist Group of Athens on the wave of riots in December, 2008.
Cores, George 1867-1949 A brief biography of George Cores, an English anarchist active for over sixty years.
Invitation to a public meeting on Freedom Press To whom it may concern, As you may or may not have already heard, Freedom Press is in some difficulty, both financial and in terms of volunteer…
