FREEDOM PRESS, THE publishers of the UK’s longest-running anarchist newspaper (circa 1886) are in danger of folding, after having to settle a copyright claim out of court for £4,000 with freelance photographer David Hoffman. As well as the newspaper, Freedom run a bookshop and publishing wing, and provide office space for various radical organisations, such as SolFed, the Advisory Service for Squatters and CorporateWatch. Like the rest of the movement they are woefully under-resourced. But Hoffman took exception to the fact that a number of his shots from the 80’s and 90’s were used in the book ‘Beating the Fascists’. Hoffman is now developing a charming penchant for financially crippling organisations he is allegedly sympathetic to, after his £10,000 payout earlier in the year bankrupted drugs charity D.A.R.E. In response to the crisis, Freedom have called a series of emergency meetings to rescue their paper, including one during this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair on the 27th October. To find out how you can help, check out http://www.freedompress.org.uk. David Hoffman need not apply.
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2012/08/03/freedom-press-public-meeting
