Class War Federation

Content by or about the UK anarchist group, Class War - founded in 1983. Class War became the Class War Federation in 1986.

Class War issue 4 1984

Class War issue 4 1984

Cover of Class War Federation supporters bulletin 6 showing a guy in a leather jacket attacking a riot cop with a metal pole "Into '94 with Class War"

Class War Federation Supporters Bulletin #6 March 1994

Supporters Bulletin from early 1994 including reports from Class War groups, recent meetings,…

Cover of Class War #48 showing suited bosses being hanged on gallows "Give the bosses the rise they deserve!"

Class War #48 1991

An issue of Class War from summer 1991 including: news, dealing with the bailiff menace, leader of scab miners union Roy Lynk, feminism and…

Class War issue 21 cover shows four men confronting a policeman with the slogan "there ain't nothing like a good game of piggy in the middle!"

Class War #21 1986

An issue of Class War from late 1986 including: 3 page article on riots in St Pauls (Bristol), Broadwater Farm aftermath, riots in Plymouth,…

Class War issue 22 cover showing a graveyard with the slogan "We have found new homes for the rich"

Class War #22 1987

An issue of Class War from early 1987 including: new years' riot round up, A bad case of the Trots (SWP etc), Labour Party, a quite shit anti…

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 Class War 57, with Windsor Castle on fire and the words "HA! HA! HA!"

Class War #57 1992

Class War newspaper from late 1992. Including: celebration of Windsor Castle fire, German neo-nazis, Stoke Newington police scandal, "Youth…

Class War #26 1988

An issue of Class War from early 1988. Contents include: mugging, Kings Cross fire, stock market crash, round up of attacks on cops in the UK,…

Ian Bone: Sound and Fury – Andy Brown

Today Ian Bone is a leading activist of Class War, the group he helped to found. But surprisingly, or not, he was once a member of Swansea…

Class War "bash the rich" march on Hampstead

Solidarity and Class War meet uptown – Andy Brown

On the face of it, the arrival of a new anarchist group with a newspaper which outsells other libertarian papers several times over is a…

Solidarity Journal #13 Winter 1986/7

13th issue of the 1980s London Solidarity Journal, including interviews with Class War and Ian Bone. PDF courtesy of Sparrows Nest Archive,…

Class War #41 1990

Class War #41 from 1990. Including: death of Tory MP Ian Gow, direct action against bailiffs, Class War member Andy Murphy vs Hackney Council,…

Open Letter To Class War

The letter below was given to Class War after issue 69 appeared, in the expectation that they would print it in their paper. They later told us verbally that it was "not the type of thing they put in their paper" or somesuch phrase. This was disappointing, not to say rather pathetic, but we are printing it ourselves instead in the hope that it still might provoke useful debate.