The Tories are trying to out-left New Labour. Not difficult to do, but it really is a joke considering their track-record and current notions. Written before the 2010 election when the Tories were pretending to care about things to get a few votes rather than track (far) right.
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Emma Goldman
A talk given in Glasgow in 2024 about Emma Goldman and her anarchist ideas.
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A Few Thoughts on Anarchism
Written to mark the 175th anniversary of Proudhon’s What is Property? this article places anarchism in its intellectual and social context and disputes the notion that anarchism can be best considered as a fusion (or confusion) of liberalism and socialism. It is not. It appeared under a different title in Black Flag No. 237 (2015)
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What it means to be libertarian
This is a write-up of my talk at the 2017 London Anarchist Bookfair. It is based on my article “160 Years of Libertarian” which appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 71.
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The irresistible correctness of anarchism
A lengthy critique of the SWP’s attempt to rewrite the history of the resistance to Italian fascism in the early 1920s as well as the revolutionary Red Years after World War I. An important, if not well known, bit of anarchist history. An edited version appeared in Black Flag
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