A review of a book by Autonomist Marxist Harry Cleaver. While sympathetic to the ideas raised, the book is ultimately unconvincing on a few levels. It appeared as “Struggling Against Work & Capitalism” in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 76 (Summer 2019)
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Review: Anarchist Perspectives in Peace and War, 1900-1918
A review of a useful book on Anarchist views and responses to war. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 77 (Fall 2019)
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Review: Democracy at work: A cure for capitalism
A review of a book by a Marxist academic advocating economic democracy. It could have done with some understanding of anarchist ideas for the goals aimed for — workers’ control — is far more at home within anarchism than Marxism. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 64/5 (Summer 2015).
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Review: 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 befitting Bordigist ideology.
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Review: How we shall bring about the revolution
A review of a classic of French revolutionary syndicalism. Essential reading for anyone wanting to find out about its ideas on social change. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No> 78 (Winter 2020) and before that, Freedom
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