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Freedom Press is the oldest surviving anarchist publishing house in the English speaking world and the largest in Britain. It is based at 84b Whitechapel High Street in the East End of London. Alongside its many books and pamphlets, the group also publish a fortnightly newspaper, Freedom, which is the only regular national anarchist newspaper in the UK. Libertarian socialism includes a group of political philosophies that aims to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society within which individuals freely co-operate together as equals. ... Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom. ... The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is an area, with no formal authority or boundaries, that spans a number of administative districts of London in England. ... Cover of Freedom, dated 13th September 2003, showing the new cover design by Clifford Harper. ...


The Press was founded in 1886 by a group of friends, including Charlotte Wilson and Peter Kropotkin, who were already publishing Freedom newspaper, and has operated, with short breaks, ever since. Much of the bookshop's recent history was tied up with Vernon Richards, who ran both it and Freedom Newspaper from the 1930s until late in the 90s. Peter Kropotkin Prince Peter Alexeevich Kropotkin (In Russian Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин) (December 9, 1842 - February 8, 1921) was one of Russias foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of what he called anarchist communism: the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a communalist society... Vernon Richards (1915-2001) was an Italian-British anarchist, editor, author and companion of Marie-Louise Berneri. ...


The bookshop was attacked by neo-fascist group Combat 18 in March 1993, and eventually firebombed. The building still bears some visible damage from the attacks, and metal guards have been installed on the ground floor windows and doors, intended to ward against any further violence (see picture). Combat 18 (or C18) is a British neo-Nazi organization formed in 1992 after meetings between the group Blood & Honour and football hooligans such as the Chelsea Headhunters. ...


Today, although Freedom no longer press books themselves, they remain as a functioning publishing house. The building hosts an autonomy club, archive, bookshop, hacklab and newspaper. The library of the Freedom Press is held at Bishopsgate Library. Bishopsgate Library is an independent, charity-funded library located within the Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London. ...


Freedom Press have published titles by Clifford Harper, Dennis Gould, Nicolas Walter, Colin Ward, Murray Bookchin, Gaston Leval, William Blake and many others, including 43 issues of the journal The Raven. 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. ... Nicolas Hardy Walter (November 22, 1934–March 7, 2000) was a British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist. ... Colin Ward (1924-) was an editor of the British anarchist newspaper Freedom from 1947 to 1960, and the founder and editor of the monthly libertarian journal Anarchy from 1961 to 1970. ... Murray Bookchin[1] (born January 14, 1921) is an American libertarian socialist speaker and writer, and founder of the Social Ecology school of anarchist and ecological thought. ... Gaston Leval (born Robert Pillar October 20, 1895 - April 8, 1978) was an anarcho-syndicalist, combatant and historian of the Spanish Revolution. ... William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. ... Cover of the final issue of The Raven, issue 43, Food, (2002) The Raven was a quarterly anarchist review published by Freedom Press. ...


External links

  • Freedom Press website
  • libcom.org, British libertarian communist website linked to Freedom Press
  • Bishopsgate Library website
  • Publisher of the long-running Freedom newspaper (1886-) Informational page at the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia

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