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Overview

Rising Free was an anarchist bookshop in Islington based at 197 Kings Cross Road and then at 182 Upper Street in Islington, north London circa 1972 until around 1981. In 1981 there was a proposal to move the bookshop to Hackney but it is not clear whether this happened. 

Rising Free Catalogue

Groups that met at the bookshop included the London Workers Group, which was spied on by the SDS. However, although the bookshop appears as a named as target in SDS annual reports between 1978 and 1981, little reporting is dedicated to it.

Reports

CSV
Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0728964
SDS Annual Report 1978, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000013269
Report that a member of Persons Unknown and Rising Free has moved in with a person waiting to stand trial for conspiracy to rob in the PUNK trial
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS_0727595
Special Branch Annual Report 1979
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0728963
SDS Annual Report 1979, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation
MI5
UCPI0000035152
MI5 report for the Home Secretary, ‘Subversive Involvement in the Brixton Riots and their Aftermath’ with cover letter from Phillips (Home Office) (report attached)
MI5
UCPI0000028824
MI5 Brief asking SDS for specific info on Anarchist and anti-nuclear groups
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0728985
SDS Annual Report 1981, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation