1980s

The 1001 faces of Wedgewood Benn - a weird collage of Labour leader Wedgewood Benn's face in different poses.

Leftist Vanguards And The Labour Party

BM Blob on the UK left and the 1981 riots.

Photo of rubbish piled up in central London during the winter of discontent

Autonomy And The Seasons

BM Blob compare the 1981 riots to the Winter of Discontent etc

Durham police officers mix with pupils at a Newton Aycliffe comprehensive school. When the boot comes in.

The Sigh Of The Oppressed Oppressor

BM Blob on kids, youth workers, teachers etc.

Photo of a car smashed into a Sheffield Police Station

'The Only Race Is The Rat Race'

BM Blob on racism, the media, sociologists and the 1981 riots.

Three bleak tower blocks with the caption "Home Sweet Home"

Introduction

Introduction to Like a Summer with a Thousand Julys …and Other Seasons…

Anarchism Exposed cover - showing black and white drawing of a male figure in a witches hat exposing themselves with a circle A on their belly, limp dick and fizzing bomb nearby

Anarchism Exposed! - The Red Menace

A provocative critique of anarchism from the mid-1980s, focussing on anarcho-syndicalism, individualism and Class War.

Cover of The Raven issue 7 1989 showing the contents and a Kenneth Rexroth poem "The Scarecrow" illustrated by Clifford Harper

The Raven #07 1989

July 1989 issue of The Raven, including Colin Ward on (un)employment in the UK and Italy, Kropotkin as a historian of the French revolution, the…

cover of LWG bulletin 7: Bus condcutor with speech bubble "The best thing about the 1980s is that they won't be as bad as the 1990s.

London Workers Group Bulletin #7 Jan 1980

Issue 7 of the LWG bulletin including: print unions face new technology, postal work - report, report on Direct Action Movement conference,…

The Arrogance of Uncontested Power - Laurens Otter

A pamphlet published by Laurens Otter of Wrekin Syndicalists examining the Hilda Murrell case, when a critic of the Thatcher government was…

blake escapees photographed revisiting the prison walls

The Blake Escape: Michael Randle Interview

Black Flag interviews Mike Randle, one of the activists who freed George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966. (Interview from 1989)

The Spies for Peace and after – Nicolas Walter

One of the definitive articles on Spies For Peace by one of the group's members, Nicolas Walter. Originally published anonymously in The Raven …

The Crowbar #21 May 24th 1983

21st issue of Brixton based squatting newsletter Crowbar. Contents include: Save 121 Centre campaign, letters on voting and Copenhagen, Barrier…