History
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Interview: Simon Hannah on the fight to stop the poll tax
April 6th: Author Simon Hannah spoke to Freedom Press about his new book Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: the fight to stop the poll tax which is published by Pluto Press.![](http://web.archive.org./web/20200513130923im_/https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screenshot-2020-03-20-at-11.48.54.png)
Anarchy in Albion: Building utopia in the heart of Yorkshire
March 21st: I often seek solace at the Brotherhood Church.
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Southwark Spain Shop: anti-fascist shop in 1930s Walworth Road
January 5th: This text first appeared at Transpontine blog.
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Brains Kan: Norfolk’s anarchist rave revolution
January 2nd: “It was the first time we had ever dealt with a riot squad ...
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Noj Giter-Granatsztajn: Belchatow’s anarchist tailor
December 31st: Noj Giter-Granatsztajn (aka Sznajder, or Noj Noj Lodzer) was born in 1886 in the central Polish town of Bełchatów.
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History: The rise and fall of the Knights of Labor
December 15th: Stephen Parfitt looks at the legendary US workers’ organisation from its founding in 1869 to its collapse in the 1890s and considers what lessons can be drawn by modern militants.
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“Power anywhere where there’s people!” – 50 years since the FBI murdered Fred Hampton
December 4th: Fifty years ago to the day, Fred Hampton – the 21 year old deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party – was assassinated by the FBI and the Chicago Police Department.
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Anarcho-Syndicalist Workers’ Revolution in Catalonia
December 1st: In an interview with world famous Dutch-Canadian journalist Pierre Van Paassen, Anarcho-Syndicalist leader and Spanish Loyalist general Buenaventura Durruti said: “We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia.
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Anarchism and the 1945 elections
November 22nd: Following a question posed by Labour supporters about anarchist responses to the policy proposals of what became the Attlee Labour government, below we reproduce Freedom’s front page article from June 2nd 1945.
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Poor, but not forgotten! The remembering of a Bristol workhouse
October 9th: Back in 2012, some historians from the Bristol Radical History Group (BRH) were sinking a couple of shandies, and pouring over old ordnance survey maps.