NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Freedom (newspaper)


Type	Fortnightly newspaper
Format	Compact (Tabloid)

Owner	Freedom Press
Editor	Rob Ray, Matt
Founded	1886
Political allegiance	Anarchist
Headquarters	84b Whitechapel high Street, London

Website: Freedom Press

Cover of Freedom, dated 13th September 2003, showing the new cover design by Clifford Harper.

Freedom (ISSN 0016-0504 ) is a London-based anarchist newspaper published every two weeks by Freedom Press. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Freedom Press is the oldest surviving anarchist publishing house in the English speaking world and the largest in Britain. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The front cover of Freedom newspaper from 13th September 2003, showing the new cover design. ... The front cover of Freedom newspaper from 13th September 2003, showing the new cover design. ... Cover art of Harpers 1978 Class War Comix Clifford Harper (born July 13, 1949) is an artist who describes himself as a committed anarchist and cartoonist. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Anarchism is a political philosophy or group of philosophies and attitudes which reject any form of compulsory government[1] and support its elimination,[2] often because of a wider rejection of involuntary authority. ... Theory Relationships Culture By region Lists Anarchism Portal Politics Portal Â· The Freedom Press premises in Angel Alley, Whitechapel, east London Freedom Press is the oldest surviving anarchist publishing house in the English speaking world and the largest in Britain. ...

The paper started in 1886 by volunteers including Peter Kropotkin and Charlotte Wilson and continues to this day as an unpaid project. Originally, the subtitle was "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism." The title was changed to "A Journal of Anarchist Communism" in June 1889. Today it is labeled simply as "anarchist news and views". Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: ) (December 9, 1842â€“February 8, 1921) was one of Russias foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of anarchist communism: the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a communalist society free from central government. ... Charlotte Wilson was an anarchist who co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin. ... Libertarian socialism is a group of political philosophies that aim to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access to tools of information and production, or... Anarcho-Communism, or Libertarian Communism, is a political ideology related to Libertarian socialism. ...

The newspaper's mission statement is stated in every issue, on page 6, and summarises the writers' view of anarchism: Look up mission statement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Anarchists work towards a society of mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. We reject all government and economic repression. This newspaper, published continuously since 1936, exists to explain anarchism more widely and show that only in an anarchist society can human freedom thrive.

The term mutual aid has multiple meanings: Mutual aid, a tenet of anarchist thought Mutual aid, an agreement between emergency responders Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, a book by anarchist Peter Kropotkin Mutual aid, in social work with groups Category: ...

Part of the Politics series on

Anarchism The Politics series Politics Portal This box: Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. ... Anarchism is a political philosophy or group of philosophies and attitudes which reject any form of compulsory government[1] and support its elimination,[2] often because of a wider rejection of involuntary authority. ...

Schools of thought

Capitalist • Christian
Collectivist • Communist
Feminist • Green
Individualist • Mutualist
Philosophical • Primitivist
Social • Syndicalist
Without adjectives
Image File history File links Anarchy-symbol. ... Anarcho-capitalism refers to an anti-statist philosophy that embraces capitalism as one of its foundational principles. ... Christian anarchism is any of several traditions which combine anarchism with Christianity. ... Left Anarchism is a term used almost exclusively by opponents of traditional anarchism to denominate philosophies that oppose private ownership of the means of production (or capitalism). ... Anarchist communism is a form of anarchism that advocates the abolition of the State and capitalism in favor of a horizontal network of voluntary associations through which everyone will be free to satisfy his or her needs. ... Anarcha-feminism combines anarchism with feminism. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Individualist Anarchism is an anarchist philosophical tradition that has a strong emphasis on sovereignty of the individual[1] and is generally opposed to collectivism[2]. The tradition appears most often in the United States, most notably in regard to its advocacy of private property. ... Mutualism is an economic theory or system, largely associated with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, based on a labor theory of value which holds that in extreme laissez-faire, market competition will cause the market values (prices) of commodities and services to align with the amount of labor embodied in those things. ... Philosophical anarchism is a type of anarchism that sees the state as lacking moral legitimacy but does not recommend any immediate revolutionary action for its elimination. ... Anarcho-primitivism is an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization. ... Social anarchism is a term self-applied by many anarchists of the libertarian socialist thread of anarchism. ... Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Theory

Anarchist theorists
Co-operatives • Direct action
Direct democracy • Economics
Especifismo • History
Issues • Mutual aid
Platformism • Post-left
Self-ownership • Social ecology
Spontaneous order • Symbolism
Workers' self-management
A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is an association of persons who join together to carry on an economic activity of mutual benefit, in an egalitarian fashion. ... Direct action is a form of political activism which seeks immediate remedy for perceived ills, as opposed to indirect actions such as electing representatives who promise to provide remedy at some later date. ... Direct democracy, classically termed pure democracy,[1] comprises a form of democracy and theory of civics wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate. ... Anarchist economics entails theory and practice relating to economic activity within the philosophical outlines of anarchism. ... Especifismo is an anarchist praxis which originates in South America. ... Anarcho-primitivists assert that, for the longest period before recorded history, human society was organized on anarchist principles. ... It has been suggested that Major conflicts within anarchist thought be merged into this article or section. ... Mutual aid is a term in political economy used to signify the economic concept of voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit. ... Platformism is a tendency within the wider anarchist movement which shares an affinity with organising in the tradition of Nestor Makhnos Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. ... Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that promotes a critique of anarchisms relationship to traditional leftism. ... Self-ownership or sovereignty of the individual or individual sovereignty is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral right to control his or her own body and life. ... Social ecology is, in the words of its leading exponents, a coherent radical critique of current social, political, and anti-ecological trends as well as a reconstructive, ecological, communitarian, and ethical approach to society. Social Ecology is a radical view of ecology and of social/political systems. ... Spontaneous order (sometimes called self-organization) is a phenomenon that happens when individuals each follow a set of self-interest-based rules without a central authority designing a plan for everyone. ... Worker self-management (or autogestion) is a form of workplace decision-making in which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer care, general production methods, scheduling, division of labour etc. ...

Relationships

Culture

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Lists

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Cover of Freedom dated 16th November 2002 (old design)

The paper has historically featured news from peace and labour movements and events, as well as listing planned events and protests on the back page. Staying true to Kropotkin's principle of mutual aid, the paper regularly features reviews of other anarchist and libertarian publications, such as Organise! and Direct Action as well as other local and international newsletters and journals. Cover of Freedom newspaper, volume 63, issue number 21, 16th November 2002 This work is copyrighted. ... Cover of Freedom newspaper, volume 63, issue number 21, 16th November 2002 This work is copyrighted. ... A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. ... The labour movement (or labor movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labor relations. ... Demonstrators march in the street while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2005. ... The term mutual aid has multiple meanings: Mutual aid, a tenet of anarchist thought Mutual aid, an agreement between emergency responders Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, a book by anarchist Peter Kropotkin Mutual aid, in social work with groups Category: ... This article does not adequately cite its references. ... Theory Relationships Culture By region Lists Anarchism Portal Politics Portal Â· The Solidarity Federation (SolFed) is a federation of class struggle anarchists active in Britain. ...

It regularly features Donald Rooum's Wildcat cartoon strip as well as Rooum's articles, and has Svartfrosk and Mark Barnsley as regular columnists. In recent years it has heavily focussed on pensions and the NHS, and on investigative articles over a wide range of topics. Donald Rooum is an anarchist cartoonist. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... A pension (also known as superannuation) is a retirement plan intended to provide a person with a secure income for life. ... The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly-funded healthcare system of the United Kingdom. ...

Along with a number of gradual changes in the content and structure of the paper and organisational changes at Freedom Press, Freedom got a re-design in September 2003, which can be seen to the top left. In 2006 the paper gained a colour front for the first time in its history. It currently costs 80p per issue.

External links

Freedom Press website
Old issues, preserved at the Anarchist Archives. Includes the first ever issue.
libcom, which carries some of the newspaper content online

Categories: Anarchist publications | Newspapers published in the United Kingdom

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