Occasional contributors included Tom Brown, Reginald Reynolds, George Woodcock, and Colin Ward.

[5][6][7]: 186  The Freedom Defence Committee was launched, which included notable figures such as George Orwell, Simon Watson Taylor, Herbert Read, Harold Laski, Kingsley Martin, Benjamin Britten, Augustus John, and Bertrand Russell.

[1] The committee had been formed in part because at the time the National Council for Civil Liberties had been considered a communist front.

[1] With Richards, Hewetson and Sansom in prison, Berneri was joined by George Woodcock who together took on editorship of the paper.

[8] The court case greatly raised the profile of War Commentary and Freedom Press.