Vernon Richards

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Vernon Richards (1915-2001) was an Italian-British anarchist, editor, author and companion of Marie-Louise Berneri.

Recchioni, Vero, later anglicised to Vernon Richards was born in London in 1915, died in Hadleigh, Suffolk in 2001. He was educated at Emanuel School, and King's College, University of London where he trained as a civil engineer. He helped his father with propaganda work against Mussolini, was arrested in Paris in January 1935 and extradited from France. In 1936, he published in collaboration with Camillo Berneri a bilingual anarchist and antifascist paper Italia Libera/Free Italy. He founded and edited Spain and the World, which became Revolt in 1939, and eventually was followed by War Commentary 1939-1945 and Freedom from 1945. He was imprisoned for nine months for inciting agitation among soldiers in 1945, and was the editor of Freedom until 1964, but continued to run Freedom Press. Among his publications are `Lessons of the Spanish Revolution' 1953 and `Errico Malatesta - Life and Ideas' 1965.

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• Vernon Richards - from the Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia

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