The Freedom Press (which includes Freedom Newspaper, Freedom Bookshop and Freedom Publishing) is a longstanding anarchist publisher based in Whitechapel, East London. Founded in 1886 it offered an outlet for radical ideas and a meeting place for the anarchist thinkers of the day. We seek to continue that tradition, along with promoting and supporting current social and political struggles. We are the largest anarchist publishing house in the nation and the oldest of its kind in the English speaking world.
We publish a range of radical literature including classics from such anarchist heavyweights as Kropotkin, Malatesta, Rudolph Rocker, Alexander Berkman and Colin Ward, to the history of the Spanish revolution and the Makhnovist movement, as well as biographies on Zapata, Bakunin and Nechaev, George Orwell, Willliam Godwin and William Blake, and home of the ever popular Anarchist Quiz Book. Alongside books, we also publish a fortnightly newspaper which remains the oldest and only regular national anarchist newspaper in circulation in the UK. It covers all aspects of the anarchist movement as well as news and issues, from a radical perspective, relevant to people’s everyday lives. News articles feature on the home page.
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. Read more on the history of Freedom here.
Our bookshop is in Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. The alley is next to the KFC near Aldgate East tube, Whitechapel Art Gallery exit. Email: shop@freedompress.org.uk
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Writing for Freedom
We are always looking for articles for the paper so if you feel you have journalistic talent please send us your stuff. News items are around 450 words or you can send a 100 word brief and we always welcome letters up to 600 words. Copy dates are Thursday 6th and 20th August and fortnightly thereafter. Send to copy@freedompress.org.uk