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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Pay Inequality: where it comes from and what to do about it
A short account of how exploitation happens within capitalism. It appeared, if memory serves, as “Mind the Gap!” in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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Review: Private Government
A review of an academic’s book on the private hierarchies associated with capitalism, showing its lack of engagement with the anarchist tradition and unwillingness to draw obvious conclusions in terms of advocating workers’ control. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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Another View: Syndicalism, Anarchism and Marxism
This is the published version of a reply to an article by Marxist Ralph Darlington in Anarchist Studies (vol. 17, no. 2). Darlington’s original article appeared in Volume 17, Number 1 of Anarchist Studies and discusses the anarchist origins of syndicalism and refutes attempts to include Marxism as one of its influences. It discusses Bakunin’s syndicalist ideas and shows how Marx and Engels explicitly rejected them. Ralph Darlington declined to reply
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