History
Book Review: Roses and Revolutionists
October 24th: ISBN: 978-1-910170-17-5 Price: £6.99 Pages: 106 Publisher: Five Leaves Books ~ review by Rob Ray ~ Nominally a work of history, Nigel Todd’…
Arguments against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
September 10th: We are in a period when the Labour Party is, again, pretending that it can protect people in Britain from the ravages of a crisis-ridden capitalist…
The gang system in Coventry
August 24th: REG WRIGHT is a Coventry engineering worker who has spent a life-time in the motor, aircraft and textile industries, One of the pioneers of the gan…
Education, equality, opportunity
July 20th: ULTIMATELY THE SOCIAL FUNCTION of education is to perpetuate society: it is the socialising function.
An Anarchist in Love with Mao’s China – Herbert Read’s ‘Letters from China’.
July 17th: Plus a list of dubious accounts of ‘successful’ revolutions, from Russia to Rojava In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in w…
Finding Hope on an A to B March
July 13th: I haven’t been on many A to B marches over the last few years due to doubts about state sanctioned protest but I managed to get down to the a…
Rescuing Galbraith from the conventional wisdom
July 10th: John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society is the only modern book on economics to become a best-seller.
Oliver Law & The Spanish Civil War
October 15th: On July 19 1936, General Franco, with the backing of Hitler and Mussolini, led a coup against the democratically elected Government of Spain.
¡Digan revolución!
November 6th: Joe Herbert on the role of photojournalism during the Spanish civil war
The Bonnot Gang
November 19th: (taken from Freedom, October 2012) It’s the 100th year anniversary of the Bonnot Gang, a group of anarchist bandits who operated in the Pari…
Hacking in the seventies
August 14th: Hacking, phone taps and the anarchists ‘A Company of Bastards’ and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (this brief history of militant …
Capitalism by design
July 16th: Modern city planning serves the interests of the rich and powerful, not us, says Richard Griffin in this article from Freedom, 6th December 2003 Ca…
Anarcho-syndicalism
July 7th: Historically one of the most prominent forms of social anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism is a school of thought that views labour unions as a potentia…
