Subtitled ‘The Secret War Between Britain’s Anti-Fascists and the Far Right’ this book details the militant, working-class response to fascism from the late-1970s until the mid-1990s. Starting with ‘the Squad’ – an active element of the Socialist Workers’ Party/Anti-Nazi League at the turn of the eighties – and continuing through the glory years of Anti-Fascist […]
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a rather unique English novel. Written by the working man Robert Noonan under the pen name of Tressell before the First World War, it depicts the lives of a group of painters and decorators in the employment of Rushton & Co. At the heart of the book is the socialist […]
Every blogger has been there. You spend ages creating a blog – setting it up, designing it, thinking about the content, writing articles, and then after a month or two you realise that you merely have an audience of one: yourself. No matter what they write about every blogger aims to have a meaningful discussion […]
First things first, admit it. You are a no good spamming scumbag. Yeah, you know: You. Are. A. No. Good. Spamming. Scumbag. You want to go on other people’s websites and post up drivel just so you can get some link back to your finance or forex MFA site. Okay, that’s fine – at least […]
Starting in the 90s with Colin Ward’s ‘Steaming In’ and Irvine Welsh’s ‘Trainspotting’, a great volume of working class literature has been published. It is mostly autobiographical material dealing with music, politics, football hooliganism and crime. The quality of these books varies great – just because somebody has an interesting story to tell, doesn’t manner […]
