Tom Brown

Content by or about Tom Brown (1900–1974) a British anarcho-syndicalist trade unionist, anti-fascist, engineer and writer.

Direct Action (SWF): Vol 5 #01 (31) Jan 1964

Volume 5, Issue 1 of Direct Action, with articles on Committee of 100 members being imprisoned, a strike by construction workers at St. Paul's…

Direct Action (SWF): Vol 2 #03 March 1962

Volume 2, Issue 3 of Direct Action, with articles on calls for a general strike against a wage freeze, Guyana's supposedly anticolonial rulers…

Into battle with the bazooka bands (Pages of Labour history) - Tom Brown

An excellent personal account of the 1926 miners' lockout in County Durham

a black and white photo of two men working in a Tyneside factory

School for Syndicalism - Tom Brown

An eyewitness account of the shop stewards' movement on Tyneside during the first world war.

Nationalisation and the new boss class - Tom Brown

A pamphlet by Tom Brown discussing nationalisation, its theoretical roots and whether it is a working-class gain (1958).

Trade unionism or syndicalism? – Tom Brown

A 1942 pamphlet by Tom Brown on trade unions, why they let us down, and why syndicalism is the best method for building a society of workers'…

Lenin and workers' control - Tom Brown

A pamphlet by Tom Brown of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (an early predecessor to today's Solidarity Federation) on Lenin and his contempt…

Mosley with his Blackshirt supporters, 1930s

Newcastle fights the fascists

Account of the 1934 routing of fascists in Newcastle, England, by Albert Meltzer and Tom Brown.

Story of the Syndicalist Workers Federation: Born in Struggle - Tom Brown

Tom Brown's 1968 description of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation, a UK based organization that…

IWW syndicalist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn speaks, Lawrence strike 1912

Principles of syndicalism - Tom Brown

Written by the well known activist and propagandist Tom Brown, the article explains clearly the principles according to which syndicalist unions…

"Tom Brown's Syndicalism" review

This review came from Black Flag in 1991. [NB: It does not appear to have been published in an issue of Black Flag though...]

Tyldesley miners outside the Miners Hall during the 1926 General Strike.

1926: The social general strike - why 1926 failed - Tom Brown

Written in the early 1940s, British syndicalist Tom Brown's article The Social General Strike - Why…