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Zapata of Mexico
by Peter E. Newell Who was Zapata? Man, myth, inspiration or movie icon? Zapata was the leading figure of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He fought for the rights of local communities against greedy landlords, treacherous politicians and foreign-owned companies. Under the slogan ‘Land and Liberty!’ he became the purest embodiment of the Mexican Revolution. Zapata’s memory,
Yesterday's To-morrow
pagesBristol's Garden Suburbs by Steve Hunt In 1909, the Bristol Garden Suburb Limited was set up to implement the ideas Ebenezer Howard popularised in To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, first published in 1898. Garden-City principles inspired promising developments at Shirehampton, Sea Mills and Keynsham chocolate factory, but were diluted in the construction of
Writings against Power & Death
By Alex Comfort Alex Comfort, who was born in 1920, is best known nowadays as the author of the phenomenally successful Joy of Sex. But he is also a poet, novelist, critic, doctor, medical biologist, the pioneer of gerontology in Britain, a pacifist - and an anarchist. From the early 1940s he was for a
World War - Cold War
edited by Vernon Richards This is the Third volume in the FREEDOM PRESS Centenary Series covering the years 1939-1950. During this 50th anniversary of the declaration of war against Germany we shall be bombarded with books and TV series as well as church services throughout the country, and the government will not spare expense to
Work, Language & Education in the Industrial State
by Michael Duane Work: "The nature of work in industrial society today is such that those who stop to think about it wonder why so many millions of otherwise sane people spend so much of their lives, apparently without complaint, at work over which they have no control and from which they derive no personal
Words in the Snow
By Juan Pedro Aparicio, Luis Mateo Diez & Jose Maria Merino From the blurb: The "Filandon" in Hay-on-Wye. This volume collects the tales that are the basis for Aparicio, Diez and Merino's "Filandon": that is, very short stories of a genre reborn midway through the twentieth century and known variously as the micro-story, min-fiction or
William Blake: Visionary Anarchist
by Peter Marshall William Blake (1757–1827) was a poet, painter, engraver and visionary. Considered eccentric, if not mad, in his own day, he now appears as a key figure in English Romanticism. He listened to ‘Messengers from Heaven’ but he had his feet firmly on the ground and was involved in the central issues of his revolutionary age. Throughout
Wildcat: Twenty Year Millenium
by Donald Rooum A selection celebrating 20 years of Wildcat appearances in Freedom newspaper. Freedom Press 1999 ISBN: 0-900384-97-2 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat: Health Service Wildcat
by Donald Rooum Wildcat concentrates on the health services. Freedom Press 1994 ISBN: 0-900-384-73-5 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat: Anarchists Against Bombs
by Donald Rooum For review see: Peace News Freedom Press 2003 ISBN: 1-904491-01-4 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat: ABC of Bosses
Third volume in the Wildcat series of anarchist comics. Freedom Press First Published 1991, Reprinted 2009 ISBN: 978-0900384608 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat Strikes Again
by Donald Rooum The second volume of Donald Rooum's Wildcat cartoons. Freedom Press 1989 ISBN:0-900-384-47-6 48 pages Black and White
Wildcat Keeps Going
by Donald Rooum The latest in the 'Wildcat' series of cartoons by Donald Rooum, this time in full colour! See short review in Peace News. Freedom Press 2011 ISBN: 978-1-904491-14-9 48 pages Colour Illustrations
Wildcat Anarchist Comics
by Donald Rooum The first anthology of comics culled from the pages of Freedom and other UK anarchist periodicals. Political satire at its finest. Freedom Press First Published 1985, Reprinted 1995 ISBN: 0-900384-30-1 48 pages Black and White
What Is Communist Anarchism?
by Alexander Berkman From the blurb: Alexander Berkman's WHAT IS COMMUNIST ANARCHISM? is a key text in the development of anarchist ideas. It was first published in 1929 and to a large extent still provides an introduction to the Anarchist position, written 'in the plainest and clearest terms'. Berkman was not an original thinker and
What Is Anarchism? An Introduction
by Donald Rooum What anarchists believe; what anarchists do; how anarchists differ. An introduction by Donald Rooum, along with some classic texts from the likes of Malatesta, Kropotkin, Rocker, Ward, Berkman, Bakunin et al. A useful primer. Freedom Press First Published 1992, Reprinted 2001 ISBN: 0-900384-66-2 74 pages Black and White
We, the Anarchists!
by Stuart Christie A detailed, scholarly study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), a group of twentieth-century militants dedicated to keeping Spain’s largest labor union, the CNT, on a revolutionary, anarcho-syndicalist path. Stuart Christie’s analysis covers the history of Spanish anarchism and the Spanish Civil War, and provides lessons relevant to today’s largely neutered labor
We Come For Our Own and Shall Have It
Smuggling in Poole and Dorset by Kevin Davis A look at the history of smuggling in Dorset and the government responses to it. This pamphlet examines to whether smugglers should be considered folk heroes and to what extent smuggling was a community enterprise. Bristol Radical Pamphleteer 24 pages Black and White
We Are Not Removing
The 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike. In 1915, during World War 1, one of the largest rent strikes in urban history broke out in parts of Glasgow, in response to steep rent rises imposed by private landlords. 20,000 joined the refusal to pay rent, organizing a grassroots movement that physically resisted evictions and contested them in
Votes for Ladies
The Suffrage Movement 1867-1918 by Sheila McNeil The Suffragettes are widely seen as the pinnacle of Women’s radical action in the early Twentieth Century. However, beyond the passion and drive of such unladylike militancy, were the organisation and aims of this movement as radical as the means used to try to obtain it? Were the
Visions of Poesy: An anthology of 20th Century Anarchist Poetry
Edited by Clifford Harper, Dennis Gould and Jeff Cloves From the blurb: Shelley, the greatest of all anarchist poets, said that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". The poets in Visions of Poesy are not asking for your vote, only that you read their poems. This anthology brings together for the first time