by Marie-Louise Berneri
with illustrations by John Olday

Not to brag, but Neither East Nor West is currently the oldest Freedom title in stock, with copies still available for purchase in the shop from the 1988 print run.

Here is a critic who was wise during the events.

These articles are a perceptive and prescient analysis of the politics and policies of the war and the following flowering of witch hunts of the West and the repressions of the East. Now we are away from the topicality of the dread dead disasters that spurred them, see what now shines through: the author’s warm humanism and intellectual honesty.

In the decades since, we have gone from cold wars through detente to current glasnost. Bloody wars all the time. Marie-Louise stands firm for freedom, us against them. The choice before us all at every turn from entropy is expediency and comfort or the harder but more rewarding radical proposition that “an injury to one is the concern of all”. Read and marvel and work away at it.

Includes 16 Anti-War Cartoons by John Olday from 1943-1944 issues of War Commentary newspaper

About the Author

Marie Louise Berneri (born Maria Luisa Berneri) was an anarchist activist and author. Born 1 March 1918 in Italy to equally famed Italian anarchists Camillo and Giovanna Berneri, Marie spent much of her life in Spain, France, and England. She was one of the founding members of anarchist newspaper War Commentary and served as editor throughout the postwar period. She sadly died at the young age of 31 in London from a viral infection resulting from childbirth.

Freedom Press
1988
ISBN: 0900384425 / 9780900384424
192 pages
Black and White