Freedom Press

Freedom Press is the oldest still working anarchist publisher of the English-speaking world and the largest anarchist publishing house in the UK.

In addition to numerous books and pamphlets Freedom Press produces since 1886 the bi-weekly magazine Freedom, the only regular anarchist newspaper of Britain, which is available across the country. ( Since 2014 only online. )

1886 founded a group of friends, including Charlotte Wilson and Peter Kropotkin a publisher for a little longer appearing Freedom. The history of publishing is closely connected with Vernon Richards, who was a leading figure in the publishing between the 1930s and the 1990s.

Among the authors of Freedom Press include Clifford Harper, Dennis Gould, Nicolas Walter, Ward, Murray Bookchin, Gaston Leval, William Blake. At times, it published the magazine The Raven, published by the numbers 43 to 2003.

The publishing house together with the connected bookstore is in Whitechapel in London's East End. In March 1993, the neo-Nazi group Combat 18 committed an arson attack on the building, the consequences of which are still partly visible. Since then, have been installed on the windows and doors on the ground floor metal blinds to protect the building from further attacks.

In addition to publishing offices and bookstore are still an archive, a Hacklab and the newspaper office in the building. The actual printing of the publications is done by an independent collective at other address since the 1980s. The library of the Freedom Press books located in the Bishopsgate Library.

A second arson attack on February 1, 2013 caused extensive damage, but no one was injured.