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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I took a lively part in this movement, and with a few English comrades we started, in addition to the three socialist…”

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I took a lively part in this movement, and with a few English comrades we started, in addition to the three socialist papers already in existence, an anarchist-communist monthly, ‘Freedom,’ which continues to live up to the present day.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin reflects on his active involvement in the anarchist movement and the founding of the publication 'Freedom.'

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