Spycops Inquiry: Closing statements roundup
Yesterday saw closing statements in the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), a sprawling investigation into the use of spycops covering four decades of operations, focusing in this tranche on the 1968-1982 period. 
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/02/23/spycops-inquiry-closing-statements-roundup/
#ErnestRodker #FreedomPress #MI5 #Mitting #SpecialDemonstrationSquad #spycops #UndercoverPolicingInquiry

Book Review: A Normal Life
M Morrison takes a lengthy look at the autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas, better known as the Greek Robin Hood.

A Normal Lifeby Vassilis PalaiokostasISBN: 978-1-904491-40-8Paperback: 352pp£15 (available here)

Illegalism is a practice that has its roots in the French anarcho-individualist movement of the late 19th century. The idea in, its initial form,
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/06/09/book-review-a-normal-life/
#BookReview #FreedomPress

Radical reprint: Wait! Wait! Wait!
In 1932, a Freedom Bulletin was produced by Tom Keell which took aim at the state of the economic crisis in Britain, calling on workers to cease listening to the lies of the political class — it almost could have been written yesterday.

The paper, produced when Freedom consisted of Keell and his partner Lilian Wolfe following the collapse
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/05/28/radical-reprint-wait-wait-wait/
#FreedomPress #radicalhistory #TomKeell

Beer punks and anarchist cafes: politics for profit
Many could be forgiven for thinking it was a belated April Fools prank when, at the beginning of the month, Freedom Press released a statement reading that close to their premises in Whitechapel and out with their knowledge, the colossal Hilton hotel group had opened an upmarket cockta
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/04/21/beer-punks-and-anarchist-cafes-politics-for-profit/
#Anarchism #branding #cooption #FreedomPress #London #marketing

Freedom Press co-opted by … the Hilton?
This story is so utterly ridiculous that when we heard it yesterday we all initially thought it was an April Fools. 
Freedom Press has, admittedly, got an interesting sort of history and some nice old-timey aesthetics - we’ve been around for a long time after all, selling anarchist books and n
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/04/02/freedom-press-co-opted-by-the-hilton/
#CanopyHilton #Capitalism #Freedomhistory #FreedomPress #gentrification #Hilton

📚💸 Wir können freudig verkünden, dass Mahngebühren der Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten in Zukunft auch in der neuen Cryptowährung #KropotCoin von @Freedom_Press beglichen werden können.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/04/01/introducing-kropotcoin-the-new-cryptocurrency-by-freedom-press/

#Witten #GLBibW #FreedomPress

The Met spychief who infiltrated Freedom Press: a memory
Freedom, among many other left organisations, was targeted by the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) multiple times over the years, most notably by senior officer Roger "Thorley" Pearce. Back in 2018, we published the results of our investigation, tracking his articles t
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/08/21/the-met-spychief-who-infiltrated-freedom-press-a-memory/
#FreedomPress #RogerPearce #RogerThorley #spycops #undercoverpolicing

Freedom Press and the MI5 vendetta
Today we've uploaded a new set of 25 War Commentary newspapers, mostly covering late 1943 through 1944, to our digital archive and to mark the occasion Jack Saundrs looks at a set of MI5 files which show exactly how angry the Freedom Group publication was making the State at the time. The files tie in directly with an infamous free spe
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/17/freedom-press-and-the-mi5-vendetta/
#1944 #1945 #FreedomPress #MI5 #WarCommentary

📗 Neuerwerbung der Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten:

Rob Ray:
A Beautiful Idea
History of the Freedom Press Anarchists

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27763160M

https://inventaire.io/entity/isbn:9781904491309

📚🏴💂🏽🇬🇧 #GLBW #GLBibW #Witten #FreedomPress #Freedom #Anarchismus #London

📘 Neuerwerbung der Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten:

Albert Meltzer:
The Anarchists in London
1935–55

📚🏴🇬🇧💂🏽 #GLBW #GLBibW #Witten #Anarchismus #London #AlbertMeltzer #FreedomPress

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27721993M

https://inventaire.io/entity/isbn:9781904491293