| David Mandl on Mon, 4 Feb 2002 21:30:02 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Vernon Richards, R.I.P. |
Full text at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,644451,00.html --------- Vernon Richards His single-minded efforts helped keep the anarchist voice alive Colin Ward Monday February 4, 2002 The Guardian Across seven decades, Vernon Richards, who has died aged 86, maintained an anarchist presence in British publishing. His chosen instrument was Freedom Press, based in Whitechapel, in London's east end. He edited the anarchist paper Freedom - and its prewar and wartime variations - into the 1960s. Earlier, he had been imprisoned in 1945, written a biography of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, and photographed George Orwell. Born Vero Recchioni in Soho, Vernon was the son of the Italian anarchist Ernidio Recchioni, who had escaped from what was then the prison island of Pantelleria in the 1890s, set up the famous Italian delicatessen King Bomba, in Soho, and taken part in interwar plots to assassinate Mussolini. [snip] -- Dave Mandl [email protected] [email protected] http://www.wfmu.org/~davem _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold