1980s

Xray Spex advert showing an audience wearing 3d glasses, similar to the cover of Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle"

The Lingering Death Of Rock n' Roll

BM Blob on punk, reggae, rebel music and the music business...

Heading "History repeats itself" above two photos - one of the 1936 Jarrow March against unemployment and one of the 1980s Peoples March For Jobs. Beneath the photos is text "The first time as tragedy - the second time as a B-movie stunt" - James Joyce

Culture And The T.U.C.

BM Blob on the Trade Union Congress and The People's March for Jobs.

Photo of train wheels with the caption Jobs Express - from TUC poster

Got any Money?

BM Blob on monetarism, the "moral majority", regeneration after the 1981 riots, etc.

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…