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No-Gods-No-Masters.com t-shirt shop : money donation to Freedom Press library following a firebomb attack

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:42 -- Anonymous (not verified)

From NGNM T-shirts

Our solidarity is a weapon that neither fire nor bomb can destroy !

An upsetting event has shaken the anarchist movement two days ago. The famous library ‘Freedom Press’ has been hit by a firebomb attack during the night of february 1st. This attack, suspected of being sponsored by fascists, sadly reminds us of nazis’ book burnings in 1933 that was then targetting to destroy any litterature against their ideas. The neo-nazis from Combat 18 (“Combat Adolph Hitler”, a neo-nazi terrorist organisation affiliated to Blood & Honour) already attacked the same library in 1993 and set it on fire.

Freedom Press is Britain’s longest running anarchist publisher and traces its history back to the original Freedom paper started in 1886 by Charlotte Wilson and Peter Kropotkin, a famous anarchist activist, writer and one of the founders of the library. Until recently, the library had over 8000 books, CDs and other activist publications.
As well as selling books, Freedom Press publish a number themselves, produce a monthly paper and provide office space for several radical and anarchist groups such as the Solidarity Federation, Anarchist Federation, Advisory Service for Squatters, Corporate Watch and London Coalition Against Poverty.

The basement has suffered from tens of thousands pounds of damage and many books were destroyed in the fire that followed the explosion, including some unique or very rare copies that had a big historical value. Fortunatly, nobody was hurt.

Freedom Press, who didn’t have insurances, has launched a solidarity call to raise funds so the library can get back on it’s feet and reopen it’s doors.

The anarchist t-shirt shop No-Gods-No-Masters.com answers this call by giving an immediate monetary support to Freedom Press comrades following an attack of an unspeakable lazyness which reminds us the most horrible moments of the last century.
A first donation will be sent this week and more will follow on the upcoming months according to our monthly income.

Information is a wealth that must be defended at all cost and anarchist education is a fundamental need for the establishment of any anarchist society. Places like Freedom Press are rare and the ideas that they share plants the seeds of anarchism. We must stay in solidarity with them to preserve our ideas and continue to transmit today’s and yesterday’s anarchist philosophies that will be the roots of tomorrow’s revolutions !

In front of fascists who wants to shut us down and censor our ideas to impose theirs, we stay in solidarity. Neither aggression or intimidation will overcome our ideas !

In solidarity,
Ni-Dieu-Ni-Maitre.com / No-Gods-No-Masters.com / Ni-Dios-Ni-Amo.com

Buy a t-shirt to help Freedom Press:
http://www.no-gods-no-masters.com/

More info:
http://no-gods-no-masters.com/blog/money-donation-to-freedom-press-libra...

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

this is the best pic i've seen on anews for a while..bring back the rude rollovers!

Submitted by firebrigade (not verified) on

Freedom Bookshop and Press are bastions of reformist "anarchism" hence their open publicly denunciatory attitude towards uncontrollable anarchists and their defense of leftism. They stock no insurrectional, anti-civilization, or individualist (except liberal) material and actively promote "populist" reformism contra anti-system violence, "deviant" ideas/emotions, etc. Fuck Freedom Press and their fucking bookshop.

This is just to clarify to North American comrades - before giving these scum yr money, know who these folks are. They are responsible for the active project of domestication/control of UK anarchism, thru Vernon Richards liberal club thru to the new LibCom types now (for instance the man quoted by newspapers was previously a leading member of silly leftist outfit "Liberty & Solidarity", and Freedom has worked with LibCom to create the dead end of populist "libcommery" and fetishised fake "mass/community" organising). They were going to stop printing their boring rag - hopefully this fire doesnt cause an influx of money so they can keep publishing their crap.

FUCK FREEDOM PRESS & THEIR JOURNO MATES

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I've been waiting for this. I had a feeling that Freedom Press was a despicable little outfit.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

You sound like an idiot. I'm gonna' give them money just to annoy you.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Same here, just gave them money due to your stupidity.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"They stock no insurrectional, anti-civilization, or individualist (except liberal) material". This is untrue, unless Bonnano counts as a liberal now.

Submitted by anonymous on

Well blow me, they have a few Bonanno pamphlets from three decades ago and a Zerzan book!

I thought all those anti-social elements were marginalized long ago!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I don't care much for Freedom Press, but I think you should know that the same building houses the Advisory Service for Squatters, which is actually pretty cool.

Submitted by colm mcollum (not verified) on

What a pure wee fanny bookshop and andy he wid get his baws booted nay bovver. CLARK DRIVE SHOWADDYWADDY ya bams. Andys da took a shit in his ma's fanny then he was born. a went down this shop an chibbed a botel thru tha winda an tha wee fella from tha chip shop wrecked his face proper. fuckin freedom hoooeee!!! fuck that shite m8

fuk i luv a bottel of tha finest wine! get fucked up then fuck up everyone else yooooooo!! canny beat a bit tonic, few botels, couple a burds, blow jow roon the back ay the gerages, chib a fuckin bam, party in a hoos, polis shut it doon, hame and crash. fuck off all ye fuckin piers morgan fanny fucks

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

uwotm8?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Get ta Fuck ya hamburger knobjock! the man clearly Scots

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

can we focus on this shitty tshirt company for a second? what the fuck?? they obviously are going to make money on their shirts even if they send part of it as a "donation" to freedom press

Submitted by Sam E. (not verified) on

I don't know that I would say its obvious, nor do I understand why you put donation in quotes, when you are implying they actually will send money.

It is possible they will make something of a profit. It is equally (arguably more) possible they'll use the money more or less like how they claim they will.

All that being said, false advertising is clearly a violation in this situation. I don't see anything wrong with a little trust, unless some evidence that they are untrustworthy emerges.

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