History
Radical reprint: War arrived, and with it the anarchists despaired
September 29th: By the time Freedom‘s September issue hit the streets in 1914 the disaster that was to become known as World War One was already underway, and anarchists found themselves shouting sanity into a world that no longer wanted to listen ~ Rob Ray ~ The edition is a curious beast, mixing a thunderous front page
The circled A at 60 part three: The true story
August 28th: The circled A is a symbol so widespread, so widely recognized and disseminated that it has come to be taken as a traditional symbol of anarchism, seeming to have existed forever.
The circled A at 60 part one: Birth of a symbol
August 23rd: Tomás Ibáñez gives first-hand testimony on the origins of the famous anarchist symbol, first proposed in April 1964
My arresting experience the day Prince Charles came to town
August 20th: Charles Windsor has form for pre-emptively arresting people who would spoil his parties.
Radical Reprint: Austria declares war, the world is on the brink
August 11th: The international political grouping around Freedom was aware of the threatened onrush of what was to become World War I — and wrote with increasing desperation in its August 1914 issue, calling on workers to resist calls to arms as Austria used the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to justify an imperial invasion.
Radical Reprint: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
July 14th: For its July issue Freedom of course led with the most infamous event of the moment, and as ever was not shy in its take, headlining a short, wry report with ‘Cause and Effect.’ The assassination, known for sparking the series of events that led to World War One, was worldwide news and, with the
“Let the dead rest – and fulfill their hopes”: Remembering Erich Mühsam
July 10th: The anarchist author and poet, murdered by the Nazis on July 10, 1934, is now part of Germany’s literary canon
Radical Reprint: The Ludlow Strike
June 16th: In June 1914 much of that month’s edition of Freedom was given over to a lengthy analysis in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre, one of the most infamous strikebreaking incidents in United States history.
Remembering Wat Tyler: Stakes are head high
June 15th: Standing up against rape, murder and repression remains at the heart of our acts of resistance
Radical Reprint: The Voice of Labour
May 19th: With militarism and the expectation of a war in Europe on the rise, Freedom‘s approach wasn’t getting as much of a bump in readership as hoped, according to reports from the anarchists’ annual gathering in Newcastle in May 1914.
