Brian Bamford

Content by or about Brian Bamford (1940 - 2022), anarchist, trade unionist, member of the Syndicalist Workers Federation and editor of Northern Voices.

Dennis and Gnasher from The Beano comic. Speech bubble "Let's smash the state"

The Raven #33: Anarchism and the Arts

1996 issue of this anarchist journal, themed around art, culture, etc.

A Donald Rooum "Wildcat" cartoon in which the cat leaps in the air shouting "All bosses out!" whilst pointing at a caricature of a white bald male boss in a fancy car which is being carried by two workers.

The Raven #36: Class Struggle and Social Protest

Anarchist journal published by Freedom Press in 1997. This issue is themed around class struggle - its contents are of extremely variable quality…

Direct Action (SWF): Vol 4 #07 (25) July 1963

July 1964 issue of Direct Action including: scabs in Swaziland and British Guiana, Franco threatens French anarchist with long sentences, class…

The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others - review

Bogus history, liberal wish-fulfilment, bourgeois triumphalism – no wonder ‘The Lives of Others’ won an Oscar, reckons Tom Jennings

Interview with a Swedish syndicalist about the SAC, 1998

A conversation between Brian Bamford and Lars Hammarberg of the Swedish trade union federation the SAC (Sveriges Arbetares Central Organisation, or the central organisation of Swedish workers).