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anarchist publishing Est. 1886 Catalogue 2019 contacts & information [email protected] | 07752 083-400 shop orders trade orders You can order online, by email, phone Trade orders come from Central Books, who or post (details below). Our business offer 33% stock discounts as standard. Postage hours are 10am-6pm, Monday to is free within the UK, with £2.50 extra for orders Saturday. from abroad — per order not per item. You can pay via Paypal on our website. We can also accept postal Contact details: orders or cheques made payable to Central Books Ltd, “Freedom Press.” 99 Wallis Road, London , E9 5LN In order to make anarchist material T: +44 (0)20 8525 8800 as accessible as possible Freedom Press [email protected] titles are sold at the cover price given when they were printed. Our Central Books publisher page is at: The exception are pre-decimal centralbooks.com/ compilations of Freedom, which are now £3 each. publishers/FREEXX other contacts Our shop Freedom runs a bookshop in Whitechapel (see page 19 for map and directions), and also sells both its own stock and many other anarchist titles at freedompress.org.uk. To get in touch email: [email protected] Our news website Freedom runs the freedomnews.org.uk website, which updates daily with new content and hosts thousands of articles. Also hosted on the site is the Freedom Newspaper Archive, consisting of more than 1,300 papers from 1886 to present. To get in touch with the editorial team, email: [email protected] Our paper Comes out twice a year, copy deadlines April 1st and September 1st. For submissions see above. INTRO/INDEX wELCOME TO THE index freedom 4-20 new / front list 5-6 FREEDOM CATALOGUE top sellers 7 Anarchism is almost certainly the most interesting backlist (by category) political movement to have slipped under the radar of activism / childhood & education 8 public discourse. classic freedom press essays 9 It is rarely pulled up in today’s media as anything other culture 10-11 than a curio or a threat. But over the course of 175 years cartoons & entertainment 11 since Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s declaration “I am an history 12-15 anarchist” this philosophy of direct action and free thought housing & land 13-14 has repeatedly changed the world. From Nestor Makhno’s legendary war on both Whites introductions to anarchism 14-15 and Reds in 1920s Ukraine, to the Spanish Civil War, to science and sci-fi 15-16 transformative ideals in the 1960s and street-fought sex 16 antifascism in the 1980s, anarchism remains a vital part society 16-17 of any rounded understanding of humanity’s journey the state 17 from past to present, let alone the possibilities for its violence 19 future. work 19 For most of that time there has been Freedom Press. Founded in 1886, brilliant thinkers past and present have published through Freedom, allowing us to present today corporate watch 20-24 a kaleidoscope of classic works from across the modern about 20 age. front list 21 Featuring books from Peter Kropotkin, Marie Louise Berneri, William Blake, Errico Malatesta, Colin Ward and introductions and guides 22 many more, this catalogue offers much of what you might middle east 23 need to understand a fascinating creed. india 24 about us Freedom was founded by a group of friends including Charlotte Wilson (left) and Peter Kropotkin, who were already publishing Freedom newspaper. It has operated, with short breaks, ever since and has been at its home in Tower Hamlets for the last 50 years. An independent, radical co-op controlled by its volunteers and part-time staff, Freedom runs Britain’s oldest anarchist publishing house and its largest bookshop. Alongside our own extensive back catalogue of classic works we stock thousands of books, newspapers and pamphlets on everything from history to sex, philosophy to workers’ struggles, fiction to anti-fascism, as well as the latest magazines, periodicals and newsletters from all the major anarchist and radical groups. 5 for 2019 anarchism is movement by Tomás Ibáñez Tomás Ibáñez grew up in France as the child Freedom Press, NOV 2019 of anarchist refugees in the aftermath of the ISBN: 978-1-904491-33-0 Spanish Civil War. Joining the CNT in exile, he b&w was active through Paris 1968 and returned to further details tbc Spain as Franco’s grip loosened in 1973. After a lifetime of struggle, AIM distils his thought and predictions on anarchism in times to come. The trouble with national action by mark haYES This short work examines the neo-nazi organisation’s emergence in Britain in 2013, Freedom Press, oct 2019 its evolution until it was proscribed by the ISBN: 978-1-904491-34-7 government in 2016 and the impact such A6 B&W reliance on State mechanisms is having on Further details tbc both far-right and left-wing politics. our masters are helpless Essays by george barrett, eDITED BY iAIN MCKAY George Barrett was one of the anarchists’ key Freedom Press, mAY 2019 organisers through the period of the Great ISBN: 978-1-904491-32-3 Unrest, a syndicalist-led uprising which shook b&w, 148 pp Britain shortly before the first world war rrp: £7.50 began. Written mainly between 1910-1915, this selection of essays offers a unique political view from the time and remains incisive today. invisible: diary of a rough sleeper by andrew fraser Many writers and books talk about the homeless. Andrew has direct experience. His Freedom Press, Jan 2019 writing on life as a rough sleeper, interwoven ISBN: 978-1-904491-31-6 through this scorching diary piece, offers a b&w, 208pp clear-eyed truth from the gutters of Britain’s rrp: £10 housing crisis. 6 front list a beautiful idea: History of freedom press by rob ray Since 1886 Freedom Press has printed some of the world’s most important libertarian Freedom Press, oct 2018 thinkers. The oldest anarchist publishing ISBN: 978-1-904491-30-9 house in the English-speaking world has b&w, 300 pp survived wars, political trials, police raids, rrp: £9.50 fascist attacks and innumerable internal crises. the anarchists in london 1935-55 by albert meltzer At the beginning of the 1930s British Freedom Press, may 2018 anarchism was barely clinging on as great ISBN:978-1-904491-29-3 movements happened elsewhere. By the mid- b&w, 108 pp 1960s however all that had changed, with a rrp: £7 newly invigorated movement. Meltzer tells the story of his part in those in-between years, as anarchists dealt with two world wars. the slow burning fuse by John Quail, foreword & biographies by Nick heath John Quail’s history of the anarchist movement in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s offers Freedom Press, oct 2017 unique insights into a force that has fascinated, ISBN: 978-1-904491-27-9 horrified and helped change the face of b&w, 404 pp modern Britain. This new edition features rrp: £13 updated foreword, biographies and full index. deep ecology & anarchism various This collection of essays from ecology Freedom Press, oct 2017 thinkers including Brian Morris. Chris Wilbert ISBN: 978-1-904491-28-6 and Murray Bookchin offers a thoughtful b&w, 140 pp contribution to what has belatedly become that rrp: £6.50 most mainstream of questions — how do we save ourselves from the havoc we’re wreaking? 7 top sellers why work? various, forword by nina power Freedom Press, 2016 A provocative selection of writers from the 19th ISBN: 978-1-904491-25-5 century through to today dissect work, its form under B&W, 184 PP capitalism and the possibilities for an alternative RRP: £7 society producing for our needs, rather than mere avarice. Beating the Fascists by Sean Birchall A compelling account of Anti-Fascist Action by Freedom Press, 2010 those on the frontline. This organised group of ISBN: 978-1-904491-12-5 ordinary working class people took the fight to B&W, 412 PP the far right during the 1980s-90s. They waged a rrp: £15 nationwide street war – and won. ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman Freedom Press, 2006 Alexander Berkman answers some of the charges made First Published 1929 against the political creed and presents the case for ISBN: 978-0-900384-03-4 communist anarchism. Thorough and well constructed, b&w, 147 pp it is today regarded as a classic statement of the cause’s rrp: £6 goals and methods. CLASS STRUGGLE AND MENTAL HEALTH by LIBCOM.ORG CONTRIBUTORS This thoughtful work brings together accounts Freedom Press, 2015 from anarchists around the globe about what it ISBN: 978-1-904491-24-8 means to suffer from mental illness as an activist b&w, 44 pp and what we, as individuals and a movement, can rrp: £4 do about it. At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism errico malatesta Freedom Press, 2005 Originally written in Italy in the 1890s, this collection ISBN: 978-1-904491-06-5 was only translated in 2005, and charts debates the &w, 157 pp a6 author had at a local cafe in which he argued the rrp: £5 corner of anarchism. Malatesta put himself at some risk to do so, as he was wanted by police. 8 activism backlist Bumping Back by L Hobley Practical ideas on how to approach a target and Niccolo Press, 2008 conduct surveillance without being seen, how to ISBN: 978-0-944061-16-5 approach and leave during an action and, if all B&W, 239 PP goes wrong, how to escape. Along the way are top RRP: £9.50 tips, essential skills and very bad puns.