Arson at London's oldest anarchist bookshop

[limpyhobbler]

(This shop was co-founded by Peter Kropotkin in 1886)

Staff at Freedom Press, London’s oldest anarchist publisher and bookshop, woke last Friday to the news that someone had tried to burn their shop down in the early hours of the morning.

Founded in 1886, Freedom has been at the heart of radical East London for over a century, featuring on walking tours and seemingly, from my time spent in the shop, serving as the first stop-off point for every European crusty looking for a squat to stay in or a protest to rage at.

The shop sits just off Whitechapel High Street, down Angel Alley – wedged between an art gallery and a KFC. If you need to pick up something by Bakunin, Chomsky or the utterly bonkers John Zerzan then this is where you go, past the linoprint heads of Emma Goldman and Peter Kropotkin and close the door after you because it’s always cold in there.
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from http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/who-firebombed-londons-oldest-anarchist-bookshop

[rbixby]

1. Was it Anarchists? NT

[Fantastic Anarchist]

3. I doubt it.

[Overseas]

2. How sad... nt