A little something for the weekend: Two of the Building user Groups in Freedom are hosting Saturday evening talks on Saturday… Radical Care and Trauma in Activism 6.30pm at Decentre, 2nd floor, Freedom Building, 84b Angel Alley, London E9 7QX A discussion and guide on practical approaches to taking care and tackling repeated trauma in […]
Happy New Year! Here’s a top ten list.
The bookshop folks have totted up this year’s sales and compiled a list of our best-selling titles, so if you’re short on reading material after Christmas (joking, joking, everyone loves to get anarchists books in the vague hope it’ll keep us occupied) here’s the popular choices down in Angel Alley. Class Struggle and Mental Health Breaking […]
From the Decentre collective
London radicals, looking for a free meeting/workshop/social space in Zone One? Decentre is a social and meeting room above Freedom Bookshop. Part counter-info hub, part not-so-hipster hangout, Decentre is Whitechapel’s place for radical organising, discussion and avoiding your boss. Previously used as the Autonomy Club, the room was done-up by volunteering anarchos after […]
The Big Freedom Rebuild: Fundraising Merch!
Satan’s elves have been busy ahead of Anarchist Christmas and if the secular sleigh arrives on time Freedom will be the proud possessor of 50 tote bags, selling at a very reasonable fiver, as well as 50 Save the Freedom Building t-shirts at £10 — all proceeds going towards the vital building works we’re raising cash for, […]
Our new magazine arrived!
Exclusively available for free/donation from Freedom Bookshop up until the London Anarchist Bookfair on October 29th (where we’ll be giving as many away as we can), and featuring: Iida Käyhkö on student rent strikes A look at Sisters Uncut’s campaign work in Hackney An in-depth analysis of what’s happening in the controversial fracking industry by Frack […]
The Anarchist Bookfair and Big Freedom Rebuild
Freedom’s been up to a fair bit this year, so ahead of the London Anarchist Bookfair on October 29th this is an update on how the Press is doing, what we’re publishing, and how on Earth we’re going to raise £40,000-odd for repairs. For readers who don’t know much about Freedom, the collective, at that time […]
Freedom Collective Statement on Brian Bamford
We’re sad to report an incident which occurred today (June 22) at the Freedom building, in which a member of the Freedom Press collective and one of the nominees for the Friends of Freedom were attacked by Brian Bamford, a former contributor to Freedom newspaper who has been excluded from involvement for the last four […]
New patches in store
Pop into the shop to see our newest patches: hand made, lino cut and from comrades in Mexico They’re a bit more expensive than our normal patches, ranging from £3 up to £15 but they’re amazingly beautiful, some of them are huge and they feature riot dogs – what more could you want from art […]
Freedom Building Collective Benefit
The shop will be hosting a monthly benefit night to raise money for essential building works on the 2nd Friday of every month. Come along this Friday, 13th May 2016 and bring your 2nd hand anarchist books to donate while you’re at it 😉 It’s an early one: 6:30pm – 8:30pm, so use us as […]
Anarchist Bookfair posters and flyers! Hot off the Press!
We’ve got loads of the new London 2015 bookfair flyers and posters at the shop. If you want some for your space, event, walls etc, then pop in and pick some up. Hurry, there’s only 5 months left to go! […]