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WARD, Colin (1924-2010)
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WARD, Colin (14 août 1924 - 11 février 2010)
WARD, Colin (Wansted, Gran Bretagna, 14 agosto 1924 - Ipswich, 11 febbraio 2010)
WORPOLE, Ken. "Colin Ward obituary"
Writer, social theorist and anarchist who believed in self-sufficiency, allotments and better town planning
Colin Ward, who has died aged 85, lived with the title of Britain’s most famous anarchist for nearly half a century, bemused by this ambivalent soubriquet. In Anarchy in Action (1973), he set out his belief that an anarchist society was not an end goal. Following Alexander Herzen, the (...)
HONEYWELL, Carissa. "Utopianism and anarchism"
Journal of Political Ideologies (October 2007),
12(3), 239–254.
"challenges the assumption that utopian traditions of
social and political thought have ceased to have any relevance, or make any
contribution to, contemporary thinking. Key utopian ideas, specifically the
importance of a focus on transforming the circumstances and environments of the
present, are transmitted to (...)
WALKER, Jesse.- Colin Ward, RIP
My favorite left-anarchist writer, Colin Ward, has passed away at age 85. Ward was the most practical radical I’ve ever read: Rather than sketching out utopian blueprints of a society without a state, he searched for empirical examples of everyday people organizing to solve their own problems. Once he started looking, he found that voluntary, non-authoritarian cooperation was everywhere. (...)
GRAHAM, Robert. Anarchism. A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Vol. II
Black Rose Books, 535 pages, 6x9, bibliography, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55164-310-6 $28.99 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55164-311-3 $48.99
Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Murray Bookchin, Emma Goldman, George Woodcock, Marie Louise Berneri, Herbert Read, Alex Comfort, Martin Buber, Paul Goodman, Colin Ward, Paul Feyerabend, Pierre Clastres, Ivan Illich, Daniel Guerin and many more. (...)
WARD, Colin. A Bibliography: 2. Articles
“Allied Military Government”, War Commentary, London (Dec. 1943).
9 articles in Freedom (1945) on the postwar squatters movement
“Origins of the Welfare State“, Freedom (June 1959) 12.
“Last Look Round at the 50s“, Freedom (Dec. 1959) 26
As from March 1961 Ward edits a new monthly, Anarchy.
“Workers’ Control: Looking for a Movement”, Anarchy. (Apr. 1961) 2:33-36.
“Moving with (...)