A hard right turn that brings meltdown
An article on the state of Britain in late 2022 written for Freedom. Its original title was “Keeping head above water in the Turd-Reich” and was written during the Tory party leadership contest (and so...
View ArticleBlack Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2023 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk This issue includes articles on Anarchism and the General Strike, the London 1881 Congress and two key 1883...
View ArticleAnarchism and the General Strike
An account of the General Strike in Anarchism as expressed in both theory and practice as well as the interaction between the two. It appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Vol. 3. No. 1 (Spring 2023)...
View ArticlePraxis, lacking: On The Communist Manifesto and its historical context
This review of China Miéville’s book on the Communist Manifesto was written for the Marxist group Platypus. I was asked due to my speech The 1848 Revolutions: An Anarchist Perspective. Suffice to say,...
View ArticleThe London Congress of 1881
This article seeks to correct all too common generalisations and distortions about the London Congress of 1881. It indicates how looking solely at the resolutions – as most non-anarchists do – gives a...
View ArticleBlack Flag: Anarchist Review Summer 2023 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk This issue marks the founding of the International Working People’s Association (IWPA) in Pittsburgh in...
View ArticleAnarchy in the USA: The International Working People’s Association
This article originally appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review Volume 3 Number 2 (Summer 2023). It discussed the politics of the Chicago Martyrs and shows its links with the ideas of revolutionary...
View ArticleReview: Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History
This collection of essays by American Academic and Trotskyist Paul Le Blanc has little of interest for anarchists or, indeed, anyone who is not a Trotskyist. For the latter, this collection of essays...
View ArticleBlack Flag: Anarchist Review Autumn 2023 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk The focus of this issue is Trotsky’s limited opposition to developments in the USSR which resulted in the...
View ArticleReview: The British Communist Left, 1914-1945
A review of a “communist-left” (Bordigist) book on the British anti-parliamentarian communist movement which developed during and after the First World War. Suffice to say, it is not very good, as...
View ArticleThe Bureaucracy in Exile: Trotsky’s limited Anti-Stalinism
An article exploring Trotsky’s (limited) opposition to Stalinism and showing that it reflected Bolshevik orthodoxy in terms of advocating the dictatorship of the party and one-man management. Needless...
View ArticleGeorge Barrett: A Biographical Sketch
This is the introduction to the collection Our Masters are Helpless: The Essays of George Barrett which I created and edited whilst on strike a few years back. George Barrett was a British anarchist...
View ArticleIntroduction to Kropotkin’s “Words of a Rebel”
My introduction to the 2022 PM Press edition of Peter Kropotkin’s Words of a Rebel. As well as the original 1885 book, it includes later prefaces (1904 Italian edition and the 1919 Russian edition) and...
View ArticleBraveheart
A discussion on Anarchist approaches to national liberation movements using the film Braveheart as its starting point. It appeared in the third issue of (the short-lived) Scottish Anarchist (1995). At...
View ArticleBlack Flag: Anarchist Review Spring 2024 issue now out
The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk We cover two women who played key parts in British anarchism, albeit in different eras. Charlotte M. Wilson...
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