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Radical Reprint: The French Anarchist Conference
One of the most useful aspects of sometimes dry reports from gatherings is the snapshot of otherwise amorphous movements — in this case, the French syndicalists and anarchists of 1913.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/17/radical-reprint-the-french-anarchist-conference/
#1913 #Anarchism #France #FreedomNewspaper #RadicalReprint

Radical Reprint: The Land and the Labourer
The July 1913 issue of Freedom features a lengthy article hooked on a major strike of agricultural workers in Ormskirk
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/23/radical-reprint-the-land-and-the-labourer/
#1910s #Agriculture #farming #FreedomNewspaper #GreatUnrest #Ormskirk #RadicalReprint #Strikes

Radical Reprint: Image of an alternate past
A speculative work by two prominent French anarcho-syndicalists, Emile Pouget and Emile Pataud, Syndicalism and the Co-operative Commonwealth (How We Shall Bring about the Revolution)

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/06/25/radical-reprint-image-of-an-alternate-past/
#books #CGT #EmilePataud #EmilePouget #RadicalReprint #Syndicalism

Radical reprint: The Napoli revolt of 1913
On a cold day in the wake of a war, starving Italian citizens wanted to put up a poster against raised tariffs but were told to hop it by the government - which in short order was faced with 100,000 protesters and severe rioting.

Italy's imperial excursion to Libya in 1911-
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/03/20/radical-reprint-the-napoli-revolt-of-1913/
#1913 #Avanti! #Freedomnewspaper #Italy #Malaesta #Naples #Napoli #Radicalreprint #RobRay

The Tsar shivered, but not from the cold.
In the first weeks of 1913 Russian revolutionary activity, never truly suppressed for all the violence and vindictiveness of the regime, burst once again onto the public stage. Freedom Press at this time maintained, through Peter Kropotkin, a strong link to the country and regularly reported o
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/02/05/the-tsar-shivered-but-not-from-the-cold/
#1913 #CatherineBreshkovsky #Radicalreprint #RedSunday #Russia #StPetersburg

Fuel for thought: 1913’s taxi strike
The tech industry loves to present itself as "disrupting" industries with innovations such as online ordering of deliveries, or driver services. In fact however they are often just reproducing age-old forms of exploitation.

Take this January 1913 article, 'The Taxi-cab Strike':

"If 1913 is to continue as it ha
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/01/08/fuel-for-thought-1913s-taxi-strike/
#1913 #fuelshortage #London #Radicalreprint #strike #transport

France and the anarchist general strike of 1912
Much of the December 1912 issue of Freedom was given over to a celebration of its star writer Peter Kropotkin's 70th birthday celebrations. The political philosopher had long since established a reputation as one of anarchism's greatest thinkers, and was fulsomely praised for hi
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/12/11/radical-reprint-the-anarchist-general-strike-of-1912/
#1906 #Anti-war #France #Freedomnewspaper #generalstrike #Radicalreprint

Syndicalism – a working-class conception of socialism
Taking a look into the archives of Freedom in November 1912 as a wave of militant, non-hierarchical trade unionism reached its high water mark.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/11/18/radical-reprint-syndicalism-a-working-class-conception-of-socialism/
#1910s #britain #France #Owenism #Parliamentarianism #Radicalreprint #Syndicalism #tradeunionism