Arguments against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
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 system. The best arguments against the Labour Party will arise when strikes, occupations and… Continue reading
The gang system in Coventry
The gang system
in Coventry
REG WRIGHT
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 gang system in its present form, he has… Continue reading
Education, equality, opportunity
Education, equality, opportunity
John Ellerby
ULTIMATELY THE SOCIAL FUNCTION of education is to perpetuate society: it is the socialising function. Society guarantees its future by rearing its children in its own image. In traditional society the peasant rears his sons… Continue reading
An Anarchist in Love with Mao’s China – Herbert Read’s ‘Letters from China’.
Plus a list of dubious accounts of ‘successful’ revolutions, from Russia to Rojava
In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in which perhaps 30 million died – Herbert Read visited China on an official delegation.
Read’s… Continue reading
Rescuing Galbraith from the conventional wisdom
Rescuing Galbraith from the conventional wisdom
Colin Ward
John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society is the only modern book on economics to become a best-seller. Comparisons have been made with Tawney’s Acquisitive Society and with Keynes’s General Theory of Employment,… Continue reading
Oliver Law & The Spanish Civil War
Oliver Law
On July 19 1936, General Franco, with the backing of Hitler and Mussolini, led a coup against the democratically elected Government of Spain. It kick started the Spanish civil war which saw a viscous fight between right wing… Continue reading
¡Digan revolución!
Joe Herbert on the role of photojournalism during the Spanish civil war Continue reading
The Bonnot Gang
(taken from Freedom, October 2012) It’s the 100th year anniversary of the Bonnot Gang, a group of anarchist bandits who operated in the Paris of the Belle Époque
The Bonnot Gang are famous for being the first to… Continue reading
Hacking in the seventies
Hacking, phone taps and the anarchists
‘A Company of Bastards’ and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (this brief history of militant trade union phone hacking in the 70s was published in Freedom, 13th August 2011)
Recent comment on the… Continue reading
Finding Hope on an A to B March
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 anti-austerity demo on June 20th in London, and was glad I… Continue reading →