From Freedom News UK
Editorial: In this bumper issue we’re exploring some of the themes from across that long haul of radical thinking
From Kate Sharpley Library, Alice Smith, & Incline Press
We’re sad to report the death of Graham Moss (1947-2025). He learnt printing at Freedom Press in the 1960s and was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. His friend Nick Heath told us more.
From Freedom News UK
We round up some of the titles to keep an eye out for, from retrospectives on punk social centres in London to the lives of brilliant organisers and mutual aid that thrives in the wake of wildfires.
From Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025 by Rui Preti.
a review of Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and mutual aid in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis Ed. Jim Donaghey, Foreword by Ruth Kinna; Afterward by Rhiannon Firth. Freedom Press, 2024
From The Guardian UK
Roger Pearce withdraws allegation Dave Morris was among anarchists who planned to plant bombs at military base
An undercover police officer who went on to become the head of the Metropolitan police’s special branch has admitted he mistakenly accused an activist of planning to plant bombs at a military base.
From Freedom News UK
Undercover Roger Pearce — later head of the Special Demonstration Squad — attempted to link to Northern Irish republicans in the 1980s
New article from the latest issue (#6, May 2023) of the Radical Bookselling History Newsletter from the Alliance of Radical Booksellers
June 8, 2023
A long article about Anarchist Papers, Publishing and Bookshops, by Dave Cope, starting from two books: Rob Ray’s A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press Anarchists and Albert Meltzer’s autobiography I Couldn’t Paint Golden Angels, representing two different trends of anarchism.
Anarchist Papers, Publishing and Bookshops: An Introduction
By Dave Cope
From Vice News by Simon Childs
The hotel chain changed the branding of its "Freedom Cafe" in East London, after a local anarchist group complained that it ripped them off.
East London anarchists have accused the Hilton hotel chain of copying their radical image and history as branding for a luxury bar for “wanky City types” where cocktails cost up to £14.
We cannot leave the recent comment pieces in Freedom uncommented on. The first piece, “Fuck Leftist Westplaining” by Freedom editor, Zosia Brom (4th March), contained much that we politically and intellectually, disagreed with. While we have every sympathy for where it was coming from emotionally, unfortunately, any point that needed to be addressed was drowned out because it had been so heavily framed in identity politics. However, when this was compounded by the actual nationalism and xenophobia of the piece, A Thousand Red Flags by Darya Rustamova (7th March), a polite veil could no longer be drawn over the matter. We have long warned that the danger of identity politics was that it was leading the unwary into right wing territory.
From Freedom Press UK
a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition