The Commoner #15: Care Work and the Commons
Issue 15 of The Commoner magazine
The Freelance Journalists Union Goes Public
Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 17 2019 18:14
The Industrial Workers of the World has just launched a new organisation for workers in the Journalism sector.
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 Sharpley Library
Yiddish radicalism, Jewish religion: Controversies in the Fraye Arbeter Shtime, 1937–1945
Submitted by wojtek on Jan 18 2019 12:48
Lilian Türk & Jesse Cohn's joint essay examining the debates over religion hosted in the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime.
A Victim of Power (Corp) and Police: The La Presse Conflict and the Tear Gas Suffocation of Michele Gauthier
Submitted by greensyndic on Mar 7 2018 04:37
A report on the 1971 conflict at La Presse and the police killing of socialist feminist Michele Gauthier. The broader struggle against Power Corp., the impact of the police killing, and the development of the Common Front and subsequent general strikes.
“Radical Gotham” – New York City, Just Like You Pictured It
Submitted by Alan W Moore on Sep 8 2017 09:51
Review of Tom Goyens, ed., Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City (2017). Describes the essays on 19th-20th century anarchist groups at first by ethnicity and the newspapers they produced in NYC – Johann Most and the Germans; Saul Yanovsky and the Jews; Luigi Galleani and his Italian followers; and the Spanish circle around El Despertar. Also a chapter on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Post-WWII, the essays discuss the Why? group of post-WWII anarchists; the Living Theatre; Black Mask/Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers; the artist Gordon Matta-Clark; the ABC No Rio cultural center; and finally anarchism in Occupy Wall Street.
Folk devils and moral panics
Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 11 2017 11:01
A detailed study by Stanley Cohen of the making of "moral panics" by the media, in particular examining the mods and rockers youth culture in the UK in the 1960s.
Freedom (February 1887)
The February 1887 edition of Freedom
Freedom (December 1886)
The December 1886 edition of Freedom
Freedom (November 1886)
The November 1886 edition of Freedom
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