Freedom Press

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

Do you have to give your fingerprints to police?

Going on protests can often be a legal minefield, which is why you need to know your stuff when you go on them. Below, a member of the Activist…

Workers in Stalin's Russia - Marie Louise Berneri

A short book written in 1944. Berneri outlines how socialism did not exist in the U.S.S.R. and how the lives of workers under state socialism was…

The Fighting-call. Vol. 1, no. 4

The fourth edition of Fighting-call, a journal of the Freedom Group and Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, from February 1937.

The Fighting-call. Vol. 1, no. 3

The third edition of Fighting-call, a journal of the Freedom Group and Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, from December 1936.

The Fighting-call. Vol. 1, no. 1

The first edition of Fighting-call, a journal of the Freedom Group and Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, from October 1936.

The Jamaican Emigrants - Freedom Press

A Freedom Press editorial from June 26th, 1948 on Jamaican 'Windrush' immigrants and British emigrants.

Wildcat strike at Teesside power plant continues despite police repression

Workers go on strike due to unsafe working conditions. The State responds with a heavy police…

A beautiful idea: history of the Freedom Press anarchists by Rob Ray.

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…

Spanish anti-fascist prisoners in Chorley

Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46

Fascinating and detailed paper by Richard Cleminson examining the appalling treatment of Spanish…

Albert Meltzer

Anarchist tactic for Palestine

British anarchist Albert Meltzer's commentary on the Britain-Israel-Palestine crisis circa 1939.

Poor Substitute

A contribution to the "Reflections on J18" collection, originally from an article in Freedom newspaper.

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…