George Foulser

British anarcho-syndicalist, seaman and member of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation in the 1960s.

An article by George Fulser of the Syndicalist Workers Federation on the 1966 seaman's strike

Unholy alliance - The 1966 Seamen's Strike: An analysis
Direct Action Pamphlets #10

The backdoor agreement

The seamen's struggle of 1966 was beaten before it began. There are plenty of details to show how and why this was so.

Seamen had won a 44-hour week in 1961, following, their unofficial 1960 dispute, by threatening another go if the 1960 aims were not conceded.

A short biography of British anarchist seaman and occasional writer, George Foulser.

George Foulser
Born 1920 – UK, died March 1975 – London, UK

"I have never paid off a deep-sea ship without having converted at least one shipmate to a revolutionary working-class point of view."

Gerard Winstanley: 17th Century Communist at Kingston (Christopher Hill, 1996)
A lecture delivered at Kingston University in 1996 by the great historian of the English Civil War on the subject of Gerard Winstanley; a founder of the Diggers, visionary, land squatter and early communist pamphleteer.

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