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Cyril Smith: Our Part in His downfall! by John Walker
Cyril Smith's Spanking memoires!
George Tapp Shames Manchester Politicians
'Tameside Eye': In Bed with a Blacklister
Tameside Councillors Grab Perks!
Border Agency and Burnley Man
Salford Spy: Cuts, Fracking, Allowances
'Six O' the Best': Northern Artists by Christopher Draper
Northern Town Centre: Rochdale's Hidden Gem by Debbie Firth
Seeds Beneath the Snow (Book Review) by Derek Pattison
'Four Alls' near Burnley
Rochdale's Seascapes
Harold Riley at Salford Art Gallery
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Freedom, the British anarchist paper, will has just published its last printed version of the paper after being published, with a some interruption in the 1930s, for 128 years, ever since 1886. That makes Freedom the oldest publication on the British left.
ReplyDeleteIn their closing statement in the current paper the Freedom Group explain their decision to close down Freedom:
'An underlying problem has been a lack of capacity to sustain it. We had hoped that Freedom would be adopted as the paper of the anarchist movement. Despite a great deal of goodwill from anarchist groups and individuals over the years, sadly this has not been the case.'
The reason they believe is that: 'Although Freedom Press has changed from a political group with a particular point of view to a resource for anarchism as a whole, we have not managed to shake the legacy of the past and get different groups to back it as a collective project.'