The Jamaican Emigrants - Freedom Press
Submitted by wojtek on Jun 27 2019 03:09
A contemporary Freedom Press editorial from June 26th, 1948 on Jamaican 'Windrush' immigrants and British emigrants.
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
Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46
Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 10 2018 14:26
Fascinating and detailed paper by Richard Cleminson examining the appalling treatment of Spanish anti-fascist resistance fighters during World War II being detained in internment camps in Britain alongside Nazi and fascist prisoners.
Anarchist tactic for Palestine
British anarchist Albert Meltzer's commentary on the Britain-Israel-Palestine crisis circa 1939.
Notes on the Freedom Anarchist Newspaper Archive
Submitted by Rob Ray on Feb 21 2018 13:52
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 Freedom's newspaper back catalogue. Herein some notes which are a bit internal-bloggy to put on the news site ...
Anarchism and the British warfare state: the prosecution of the 'war commentary' anarchists, 1945
Submitted by Craftwork on Sep 18 2017 23:01
Article by Carissa Honeywell, published in 'International Review of Social History', Volume 60, Issue 2, pp. 257-284 (August 2015). This article argues that in the closing months of World War II the British government decided to suppress War Commentary because officials feared that its polemic might foment political turmoil and thwart postwar policy agendas as military personnel began to demobilize and reassert their civilian identities.
Freedom Spring 2016
Reduced paper focusing on reproductive rights, homelessness and the Panama papers.
Greece: Karypidis supermarket worker commits suicide after 18 months without pay
Submitted by Rob Ray on Aug 9 2017 12:45
The Thessaloniki Libertarian Initiative writes about the suicide of a worker in supermarket chain Karypidis, after 18 months in which the firm simply didn’t pay its staff salaries. Early this month the initiative carried out a protest action outside one of the company’s supermarkets in Thessaloniki (above). This rally was the only collective reaction following the suicide-murder of the worker.
On leaving Russia
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 22 2017 13:34
Russian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer, who was deported to Russia, on her being deported from Russia by the Bolsheviks for condemning their persecution of revolutionary workers.
Interview: The Antifascist Assembly of Piraeus
Submitted by Rob Ray on Jun 30 2017 12:33
Having struggled to find a foothold since the end of 1967-74 military junta, Greek fascism saw a turning point with the spectacular rise of Aube Dorée (Golden Dawn) during the late 2000s financial crisis. The murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn (GD) assault squad in 2013 saw the organisation lose momentum and support, but it has recently been growing in confidence again as it seeks to exploit the Syrian refugee crisis. Self-defence groups, such as the Antifascist Assembly of Piraeus, have formed to push back.
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