Philip Sansom

Philip Richard Sansom (19 September 1916 – 24 October 1999) was an anarchist writer and activist.

Sansom began working life as a commercial artist. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, and worked in farming for a while. From 1943 he worked on War Commentary, a wartime substitute for the anarchist paper Freedom. With his co-editors Vernon Richards and John Hewetson, he was tried at the Old Bailey in 1945^[1] and imprisoned for nine months for conspiring to publish an article allegedly inciting soldiers to disaffect from their duty or allegiance. He was a charismatic orator at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, and elsewhere in the 1950s and 1960s.^[2]

See also

• Freedom Defence Committee

Notes

1. Obituary The Independent
2. Obituary The Guardian

References

• Donald Rooum, Obituary, The Guardian, 15 November 1999 (retrieved 16 June 2009)
• John Pilgrim, Obituary, The Independent, 3 November 1999 (retrieved 16 June 2009)