The debate over the term ‘anarchism’ as an asset or liability rears its head in this comment piece from 1966 ~punkacademic~ Back in Feb…
Radical Reprint: Who’s afraid of the A Word?
Tag: Colin Ward
Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail
Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem
Colin Ward: Everyday Anarchy, the documentary
We discover that anarchy is not – as it is commonly understood – simply about a lack of power or authority but is instead a highly complex theo…
Review: Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy
Author: Sophie Scott-BrownColin Ward and the Art of Everyday AnarchyRoutledgeISBN: 9780367569303 In Sophie Scott-Brown’s excellent, well-research…
Interview: Alessio Kolioulis on Colin Ward’s The Child in the City and its French translation
A French language translation of Colin Ward’s classic The Child in the City was published in March this year by Etrerotopia France – L’enfant…
Anarchist farm: a revolutionary feast
Food — or the potential lack of it — has played on a lot of people’s minds lately.
Orwell among the anarchists
Vernon, Richards George Orwell at Home (and Among the Anarchists): Essays and Photographs, (1998) London: Freedom Press.
Moving with the times … but not in step
Colin Ward critiques an interview from New Left Review of Alan Lovell, a regular Peace News writer in the 1960s and a member of the Committee of 1…
Augustus John — an appreciation
WHEN AUGUSTUS JOHN DIED at the age of 83 on October 31st 1961, the newspapers were full of such adjectives as “boisterous, blustering, brilli…
Industrial decentralisation and workers’ control
This piece by Colin Ward is the text of a paper read to the anti-war Committee of 100 seminar at Kensington Central Library on November 20th, 1961.
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Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
