Simon Saunders' Forgets So Much

FORMER Freedom editor, Simon Saunders, in a recent comment claimed that Brian Bamford and Chris Draper had had little involvement with Freedom in the last 10 years.   Below are two entries from the Freedom archives published on the 10th, September 2011 and December 2010, which were discovered purely at random, that show the involvement of Northern Voices in reports that went into Freedom about activities in the North of England:

Tag Archives: Northern Voices

     Academics & anarchists: on doing hacking & phone taps

Published September 10, 2011

‘A Company of Bastards’ & the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Recent comment on the ethics of phone-hacking and the media reminded me of our practices in the 1970s, during the time of the alternative press and counter-cultural journalism in the North of England; not to mention what we got up to in the name [...]

Posted in History, Web front page | Also tagged Brian Bamford, Northern Anarchist Network, RIPA

     Northern Anarchist Network Bolton Conference, 11th Dec

Published December 6, 2010

Northern Anarchist Network (NAN) Bolton Conference, Saturday 11th, December 2010 11am start NAN Conference Bolton Socialist Club 16 Wood Street (off Bradshaw Gate) Bolton, BL1 1DY Theme: Do Anarchists have an answer to the Economic Crisis? Updated Agenda 11.00am – Richard Holland on “Luddites 200: preparing for the Bicentenary” 11.30am – Dave Goodway on “Colin Ward [...]

Posted in News, Web front page | Also tagged Bolton, NAN, Northern Anarchist Netowrk

     Bookshop News

• December issue of Freedom December issue of Freedom is now available to buy in the shops. The UK’s longest running anarchist publication is now monthly, with new sections, more features, and an expanded format – all for just £2. More…
• Lucien van der Walt Talk – Dec 10th