tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post6704441845558769382..comments2024-03-04T15:23:07.880+00:00Comments on Northern Voices: Who Killed Freedom?: an unauthorised history 4.Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-47907496920115069302015-10-26T16:08:51.498+00:002015-10-26T16:08:51.498+00:00CHRIS Draper's forensic analysis of the demise...CHRIS Draper's forensic analysis of the demise of the Freedom newspaper is excellently researched and demonstrates the culpability of the Freedom Collective. It deserves to be widely read throughout the libertarian movement. Barry Woodlingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-23054187645446424402015-03-23T15:42:42.476+00:002015-03-23T15:42:42.476+00:00From Griffin 7/02/15
Well said Iain, couldn't ...From Griffin 7/02/15<br />Well said Iain, couldn't have put it better myself. As an aside,as someone who regularly wrote for Freedom, including plenty of non class related articles ( on food, gardening, architecture, skate boarding, sport, history, art, film, music) I personally found the collective including the editors decent people working really hard to keep the paper afloat. Not perfect but who the fck is? Richard P.Griffinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-70673694791663019682015-03-23T15:40:15.892+00:002015-03-23T15:40:15.892+00:00Dear Brian,
I'm getting increasingly sick of ...Dear Brian,<br /> I'm getting increasingly sick of these posts which are basically personal attacks on individuals. I'm unhappy that Freedom is no longer being published -- however, for years those involved in the paper asked for people in the movement to get involved but with little response. Without active participation from others then any newspaper will run into trouble. No massive conspiracy is needed to explain this -- just basic awareness of producing a magazine. As for the class struggle bugbear, having went through the archives of Freedom from the 1880s to the 1940s I can assure you that it was always a "class struggle" journal, a communist-anarchist one. The problem with Freedom in the post-war period is that it drifted away from it.<br /> So rather than attack individuals, name them when they prefer not to be publicly known, and so forth, it would be better to discuss whether enough people can be found to get a regular revolutionary anarchist journal going. We are trying to achieve that with Black Flag and we don't waste our time with personal diatribes. Iain McKay (7/02/15)<br />Iain McKaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-30345871944255257682015-02-07T11:24:51.205+00:002015-02-07T11:24:51.205+00:00Chris has written an excellent expose of the role ...Chris has written an excellent expose of the role of Freedom Editorial Collective in the "killing" of the Freedom newspaper. In particular the role of those members of AF and Sol Fed. The Freedom Bookshop and building must be retained as an essential resource for the libertarian movement.barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15678078921547004213noreply@blogger.com