Colin Ward

An archive of texts and documents by and about Colin Ward on libcom.org.

Witness for the Prosecution - Colin Ward

The revival of interest in anarchism at the time of the Spanish Revolution in 1936 led to the publication of Spain and the World, a fortnightly…

The Raven #17: Use of land

Issue of The Raven journal about the use of land in capitalist society. Reproduced for reference.

Towards an assessment of Colin Ward's anarchism

An initial summary on the political ideas of Colin Ward.

Cover of Anarchy 4

Anarchy: a journal of anarchist ideas

A complete online archive of scanned issues of Anarchy magazine, edited by Colin Ward and published monthly by Freedom Press from March 1961…

Housing is theft - housing is freedom

Housing is theft - housing is freedom

A rare pamphlet, where Ward talks on one of his favourite subjects – housing – and how anarchists have dealt with it within the confines of state…

Anarchy in action - Colin Ward

Anarchy in action - Colin Ward

Colin Ward on how people organise themselves in human societies, and how this demonstrates the viability of anarchist ideas.

The anarchist sociology of federalism

Ward fleshes out the history and relevance of federalism as such, "The actual evolution of the political left in the twentieth century has…

Anarchism as a theory of organisation

Colin Ward fleshes out his mutualist vision of how anarchist organisation should function, which owes a big debt to the ideas of Kropotkin.

Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow - David Goodway

Broad look at the theory and writers of British class struggle anarchism from turn of the century utopians to contemporary ecologists.

Colin Ward

I can't claim to have known him but I did visit Colin shortly after Talking Anarchy - a book entirely made up of a fascinating exchange between him and David Goodway - was brought out. I…

Milton Keynes: Helmut Jacoby for MKDC Architects 1973-74

Anarchy in Milton Keynes - Colin Ward

Colin Ward examines interlocking musical communities in Milton Keynes, as described by anthropologist Ruth Finnegan's book The Hidden Musicians:…

Stuart Christie.

Christie and Ward: three anarchist book reviews - The Guardian