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FREEDOM, A Journal Of Anarchist Communism, London, November, 1914
* Anti-World War I outbreak
* Anarchists - Communism
Freedom is a London-based anarchist news publication. It is the world's oldest surviving anarchist publication, still existing today.
The paper was started in 1886 and continued with a short interruption in the 1930s until 2014 as a regular publication, moving its news production online and publishing irregularly until 2016, when it became a bi-annual. Originally, the subtitle was "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism". The title was changed to "A Journal of Anarchist Communism" in June 1889. Currently it's labelled simply as an "Anarchist Journal".
Eight pages, 10 by 15 inches, good condition.
Background: This November 1914 issue of Freedom (Vol. XXVIII, No. 307) holds exceptional historical significance and extreme rareness, as it captures the immediate, fractured response of the global anti-war left to the outbreak of the First World War. Beyond being an original physical specimen from the world's longest-running radical news organ—founded in London in 1886—this specific 8-page, 10 × 15-inch folio edition stands out as an pivotal turning point in 20th-century political philosophy. Most notably, it features Italian revolutionary Errico Malatesta’s famous anti-militarist rebuttal, "Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles," alongside pro-defense essays by French theorist Jean Grave, marking the historic, bitter split over the war between international pacifists and figures like Peter Kropotkin. Original printings from late 1914 were tightly suppressed, confiscated, and destroyed due to wartime censorship under Britain's Defense of the Realm Act, making surviving complete copies in good condition virtually non-existent outside a tiny handful of academic institutional archives.
* Anti-World War I outbreak
* Anarchists - Communism
Freedom is a London-based anarchist news publication. It is the world's oldest surviving anarchist publication, still existing today.
The paper was started in 1886 and continued with a short interruption in the 1930s until 2014 as a regular publication, moving its news production online and publishing irregularly until 2016, when it became a bi-annual. Originally, the subtitle was "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism". The title was changed to "A Journal of Anarchist Communism" in June 1889. Currently it's labelled simply as an "Anarchist Journal".
Eight pages, 10 by 15 inches, good condition.
Background: This November 1914 issue of Freedom (Vol. XXVIII, No. 307) holds exceptional historical significance and extreme rareness, as it captures the immediate, fractured response of the global anti-war left to the outbreak of the First World War. Beyond being an original physical specimen from the world's longest-running radical news organ—founded in London in 1886—this specific 8-page, 10 × 15-inch folio edition stands out as an pivotal turning point in 20th-century political philosophy. Most notably, it features Italian revolutionary Errico Malatesta’s famous anti-militarist rebuttal, "Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles," alongside pro-defense essays by French theorist Jean Grave, marking the historic, bitter split over the war between international pacifists and figures like Peter Kropotkin. Original printings from late 1914 were tightly suppressed, confiscated, and destroyed due to wartime censorship under Britain's Defense of the Realm Act, making surviving complete copies in good condition virtually non-existent outside a tiny handful of academic institutional archives.
Item from last month's catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026
Category: The 20th Century
No Longer Available
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