«We don’t build our movement on obscure ideas. Perhaps we should produce fewer ideas, but we should be able to understand them completely and explain them to others at any time. »

One of the less public but most important figures of the Freedom Press (Nicolas Walter, anarchist historian)
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Lilian Wolfe was born on December 22, 1875, in London. Hired by the General Post Office, she became a member of the Civil Service Socialist Society.
Having joined the Women’s Freedom League but considering granting women the right to vote as a mere « palliative », she joined the anarchist movement in 1913. She (…)

Russian libertarian mathematician of Tatar origin imprisoned in Russia.
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Anarchist Azat Miftakhov was arrested on February 1, 2019, on charges of « making explosives ».Tortured by the police, he was released on February 7, 2019, due to lack of evidence.
In Moscow a window of Vladimir Putin’s party offices was smashed in 2018. Based on two secret testimonies, Azat Miftakhov was arrested. On January 18, 2021, the Moscow (…)

A meeting was held in Chicago’s Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886. Anarchist speakers Albert Parsons, August Spies and Samuel Fielden supported the demand for an eight-hour day for workers. The “Knights of Labor” had just launched a major mobilization campaign to obtain this right. The demonstrators begin to disperse when the police charge in. A bomb explodes among the police, who then fire into the crowd.

Radio Libertaire, "The voice without god, nor master, nor ads", began broadcasting on FM on September 1, 1981.

Galas in support of RL follow one another in 1983, in Paris with top artists as Bernard Lavilliers at the Olympia in June and Léo Ferré at the Espace Balard in December, attracting 6,500 spectators [1].

On August 28, 1983, the CRS ransacked the studio and seized the transmitter. Police technicians dismantled the antenna.

5,000 people march in Paris on September 3, 1983. Following the demonstration, RL resumed broadcasting.

Supported in France and abroad by the libertarian movement and numerous artists, trade unionists and community activists, RL has waged a long struggle for freedom of expression.

For 40 years, RL has been broadcasting on 89.4 MHz all around the capital, and since 2004 has been streaming on the Internet.

Lucia Carter was born in Texas in 1853, to a Creek Indian father and a Mexican mother of African-American descent. She illegally married Albert Parsons, a socialist activist, in 1871. Texas law had prohibited interracial marriage since 1837. The bride and groom fled Waco, and she called herself Lucy Parsons when they arrived in Chicago in 1873.

A short comic on the funeral of Peter Kropotkin.

A short comic on the funeral of Peter Kropotkin.

A short comic on the funeral of Peter Kropotkin.

A short comic on the funeral of Peter Kropotkin.