Freedom Press

Content by and about Freedom Press, an anarchist publishing house and bookseller founded in London in 1886.

The new war on claimants: blaming the victims

With unemployment increasing, and hundreds of thousands more jobs facing the axe as a result of the cuts, the government is setting out new ways…

Agnes Henry

Henry, Agnes 1850-1915

A short biography of Agnes Henry, active in the British anarchist movement in the 1880s-1890s

Front page of Freedom (October 1886)

Freedom (October 1886)

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

Motler, Leonard Augustine, 1888-1967

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

The Tradition of Workers' Control

The tradition of workers' control - Geoffrey Ostergaard

In this book the English anarchist writer Geoffrey Ostergaard sets out to sketch the historical…

Austerity: No restoration for Aquila

Italy’s earthquake city set to remain a ghost town as cuts bite, reports Rob Ray for Freedom anarchist newspaper

CNT: Make Spain’s general strike indefinite

As a general strike is mooted to coincide with Europe-wide action, the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union is warning that one day outings will not be…

Cartoon from War Commentary

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…

Alfred Marsh

Marsh, Alfred 1858-1914

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

Tom Cantwell ( back left) with Charles Mowbray ( centre) and others

Cantwell, Thomas Edward, 1864-1906

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

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,…

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…