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The article prior to my edit was full of historical misinterpretations, and NPOVs in a very big pro-US-style US Libertarian Party ideology. No coverage of real English speaking anarchism at all (Tyler, Civil War, radical Whiggery, Radical US Revolutionaries, social Utopians, Kropotkin in Exile etc. No coverage of the rise of the shop-stewards movement. or IWW. Or English anarchist newspapers 1920-1960. Or US/AU IWWs in the long period of slow down. No coverage of "political" anarchism in Au or NZ or SA (see African Anarchism). The middle section is still largely bullshit. This article needs help. Fifelfoo 00:53, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I came to this page to find out a little about english Anarchism, as i know precious little. However, i found most of it was not entirely relevant, too much about the colonies and America (which is not anarchism in England)and i would have to agree there are POV issues as there was a good deal of vagueness and imbalance, and you admitted it!? I would like to see an expansion of 20th century pacifism and trade unionism. Wouldn't it also be relevant to include anarchist movements like 'reclaim the streets' et al in this? They seem to get a fair bit of coverage in the media so they do exist..however insipid they may be.-- Turkeyplucker 17:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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There's overlap between these two articles American individualist anarchism. Maybe they should be restructured/merged.
Per discussion at Template talk:Anarchism, this article has been renamed to focus on anarchism in England, though it may be expanded to encompass the UK or Britain if more on those subjects is added. ~ Switch ( ✉ ✍ ☺) 07:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
"Unique amongst national anarchist traditions is the development of English language industrial unionism in the United States and Australia, such as in the case of the Industrial Workers of the World. The tendency of industrial unionism represented the largest wing of English anarchism until the 1960s"
this seems a bit inaccurate considering the CNT. from what i gather, anarchist unions in poland have had some success as well. is there some difference I don't know about? Murderbike 17:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
The articleneeds a lot of work i.e. role of pacifism, spies for peace,CND and civil disobedience in the sixties, Punk in the eighties etc. There was a whole load of material not to do with the topic which I removed. Harrypotter 22:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Right now, Anarchism in the United Kingdom redirects here. What about Anarchism in Scotland? Vert et Noir talk 05:07, 21 July 2007 (UTC) Because the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of England and Scotland. 82.4.36.18 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:33, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
The Anarchist Federation group in Sheffield has done a few articles on the history of grassroots autonomous workers struggle in the city, and a look at anarchists and anarchism specifically too such as the Sheffield Anarchist Group. I'll write up something later unless someone else wants to do it. Links; 'Early Mischief Makers', in Fargate Speaker Jul/Aug 2009 'Broom Hall Burning', in Fargate Speaker Sep/Oct 2009 'Fargate Calling! Sheffield's Radical History', in Fargate Speaker Dec/Jan 2009-10
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This article should be moved to Anarchism in the United Kingdom, given that it's about anarchism in the UK (not pre-act of union England). Charles Essie ( talk) 01:08, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
I have not come across any other references to this group in the anarchism main page. Whats more anarchism is opposed to racism - therefore it shouldn't be on here. It seems insignificant to mention this just because there was one guy in the 80's. Some of the groups mentioned in the article had hundreds of members, or the people were well-known in academia or the literate world. Sentryward ( talk) 08:25, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
It is not correct that there was a "limited monarch in coalition with a parliament of wealthy aristocrats and landowners". The parliamentary system was essentially restricted to the UK. Other monarchies were more powerful, with an accordingly less powerful parliament. Furthermore parliament was not made up of wealthy aristocrats and landowners. Many MP's were urban-based, from the worlds of commerce and industry. Royalcourtier ( talk) 20:31, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1960s and 1970s. From the late 1970s this was associated with the anarcho punk movement; the band Crass in particular had a high profile for its anarchist and pacifist ideas. Since the turn of the millennium, anarchists have expressed their beliefs through the medium of film, rave music, and live theatre. Class War is a class struggle based group and newspaper originally set up by Ian Bone and others in 1983. It subsequently mutated in various forms, becoming specifically anarchist. Inspired by the Stop the City actions of 1983 and 1984, Class War organised a number of 'Bash The Rich' demonstrations, in which supporters were invited to march through and disrupt wealthier areas of London such as Kensington, and Henley-on-Thames (during the annual Regatta), bearing banners and placards with slogans such as "Behold your future executioners!" (a phrase coined by the anarchist Lucy Parsons). A national conference was in held Manchester in 1986 and proposed that groups and individuals who produced and supported the paper should form "Class War" groups as part of a national federation with common 'aims and principles'. A Class War Federation developed, gaining particular prominence in the anti- poll tax movement of the late 80s and early 1990s. When Class War spokesman Andy Murphy praised those who had rioted in the Trafalgar Square Poll Tax Riots as "working class heroes", [1] Class War gained wider media exposure (including a 'tea time' interview with Ian Bone on the Jonathan Ross Show (see Poll Tax Riots)). 1992 saw the publication of Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War published jointly with AK Press that set out where Class War came from, and where it wanted to go. A rejection of industrial technology is also prominent in the views of many green anarchists, with Colin Ward acting as theorist for this national current. This worldview was associated with the growth of the anti-roads movement( Reclaim The Streets), the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front. The magazine Green Anarchist was for a while the principal voice advocating green anarchism, an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking. Founded after the 1984 Stop the City protests, the magazine was launched in the summer of that year by an editorial collective consisting of Alan Albon, Richard Hunt and Marcus Christo. Early issues featured a range of broadly anarchist and ecological ideas, bringing together groups and individuals as varied as Class War, veteran anarchist writer Colin Ward, anarcho-punk band Crass, as well as the Peace Convoy, anti-nuclear campaigners, animal rights activists and so on. However the diversity that many saw as the publication's greatest strength quickly led to irreconcilable arguments between the essentially pacifist approach of Albon and Christo, and the advocacy of violent confrontation with the State favoured by Hunt. During the 1990s Green Anarchist came under the helm of an editorial collective that included Paul Rogers, Steve Booth and others, during which period the publication became increasingly aligned with primitivism, an anti-civilization philosophy advocated by writers such as John Zerzan, Bob Black and Fredy Perlman. The Direct Action Movement formed in 1979, when the one remaining SWF branch, along with other smaller anarchist groups, decided to form a new organisation of anarcho-syndicalists in Britain. [2] The DAM was highly involved in the Miners' Strike as well as a series of industrial disputes later in the 1980s, including the Ardbride dispute in Ardrossan, Scotland, involving a supplier to Laura Ashley, for which the DAM received international support. From 1988 in Scotland, then England and Wales, the DAM was active in opposing the Poll Tax. [3] In the early 1990s, DAM members set up the Despatch Industry Workers Union, which successfully organised workers for a number of inner-city courier firms. [4] The Solidarity Federation, also known by the abbreviation SolFed, is a federation of class struggle anarchists. The organisation advocates a strategy of anarcho-syndicalism as a method of abolishing capitalism and the state. In March 1994 it adopted its current name, having previously been the Direct Action Movement since 1979, and before that the Syndicalist Workers' Federation since 1950. SolFed publishes the quarterly magazine Direct Action (presently on hiatus) and the newspaper Catalyst. Several locals and networks also publish their own newsletters. Along with the Anarchist Federation it is one of the two national anarchist federations active in the UK at the present time.
In July 2011 the Metropolitan Police Service called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police." [7] However, they later retracted this statement. citation needed References
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The article prior to my edit was full of historical misinterpretations, and NPOVs in a very big pro-US-style US Libertarian Party ideology. No coverage of real English speaking anarchism at all (Tyler, Civil War, radical Whiggery, Radical US Revolutionaries, social Utopians, Kropotkin in Exile etc. No coverage of the rise of the shop-stewards movement. or IWW. Or English anarchist newspapers 1920-1960. Or US/AU IWWs in the long period of slow down. No coverage of "political" anarchism in Au or NZ or SA (see African Anarchism). The middle section is still largely bullshit. This article needs help. Fifelfoo 00:53, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I came to this page to find out a little about english Anarchism, as i know precious little. However, i found most of it was not entirely relevant, too much about the colonies and America (which is not anarchism in England)and i would have to agree there are POV issues as there was a good deal of vagueness and imbalance, and you admitted it!? I would like to see an expansion of 20th century pacifism and trade unionism. Wouldn't it also be relevant to include anarchist movements like 'reclaim the streets' et al in this? They seem to get a fair bit of coverage in the media so they do exist..however insipid they may be.-- Turkeyplucker 17:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
hans mole man
There's overlap between these two articles American individualist anarchism. Maybe they should be restructured/merged.
Per discussion at Template talk:Anarchism, this article has been renamed to focus on anarchism in England, though it may be expanded to encompass the UK or Britain if more on those subjects is added. ~ Switch ( ✉ ✍ ☺) 07:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
"Unique amongst national anarchist traditions is the development of English language industrial unionism in the United States and Australia, such as in the case of the Industrial Workers of the World. The tendency of industrial unionism represented the largest wing of English anarchism until the 1960s"
this seems a bit inaccurate considering the CNT. from what i gather, anarchist unions in poland have had some success as well. is there some difference I don't know about? Murderbike 17:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
The articleneeds a lot of work i.e. role of pacifism, spies for peace,CND and civil disobedience in the sixties, Punk in the eighties etc. There was a whole load of material not to do with the topic which I removed. Harrypotter 22:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Right now, Anarchism in the United Kingdom redirects here. What about Anarchism in Scotland? Vert et Noir talk 05:07, 21 July 2007 (UTC) Because the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of England and Scotland. 82.4.36.18 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:33, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
The Anarchist Federation group in Sheffield has done a few articles on the history of grassroots autonomous workers struggle in the city, and a look at anarchists and anarchism specifically too such as the Sheffield Anarchist Group. I'll write up something later unless someone else wants to do it. Links; 'Early Mischief Makers', in Fargate Speaker Jul/Aug 2009 'Broom Hall Burning', in Fargate Speaker Sep/Oct 2009 'Fargate Calling! Sheffield's Radical History', in Fargate Speaker Dec/Jan 2009-10
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This article should be moved to Anarchism in the United Kingdom, given that it's about anarchism in the UK (not pre-act of union England). Charles Essie ( talk) 01:08, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
I have not come across any other references to this group in the anarchism main page. Whats more anarchism is opposed to racism - therefore it shouldn't be on here. It seems insignificant to mention this just because there was one guy in the 80's. Some of the groups mentioned in the article had hundreds of members, or the people were well-known in academia or the literate world. Sentryward ( talk) 08:25, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
It is not correct that there was a "limited monarch in coalition with a parliament of wealthy aristocrats and landowners". The parliamentary system was essentially restricted to the UK. Other monarchies were more powerful, with an accordingly less powerful parliament. Furthermore parliament was not made up of wealthy aristocrats and landowners. Many MP's were urban-based, from the worlds of commerce and industry. Royalcourtier ( talk) 20:31, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1960s and 1970s. From the late 1970s this was associated with the anarcho punk movement; the band Crass in particular had a high profile for its anarchist and pacifist ideas. Since the turn of the millennium, anarchists have expressed their beliefs through the medium of film, rave music, and live theatre. Class War is a class struggle based group and newspaper originally set up by Ian Bone and others in 1983. It subsequently mutated in various forms, becoming specifically anarchist. Inspired by the Stop the City actions of 1983 and 1984, Class War organised a number of 'Bash The Rich' demonstrations, in which supporters were invited to march through and disrupt wealthier areas of London such as Kensington, and Henley-on-Thames (during the annual Regatta), bearing banners and placards with slogans such as "Behold your future executioners!" (a phrase coined by the anarchist Lucy Parsons). A national conference was in held Manchester in 1986 and proposed that groups and individuals who produced and supported the paper should form "Class War" groups as part of a national federation with common 'aims and principles'. A Class War Federation developed, gaining particular prominence in the anti- poll tax movement of the late 80s and early 1990s. When Class War spokesman Andy Murphy praised those who had rioted in the Trafalgar Square Poll Tax Riots as "working class heroes", [1] Class War gained wider media exposure (including a 'tea time' interview with Ian Bone on the Jonathan Ross Show (see Poll Tax Riots)). 1992 saw the publication of Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War published jointly with AK Press that set out where Class War came from, and where it wanted to go. A rejection of industrial technology is also prominent in the views of many green anarchists, with Colin Ward acting as theorist for this national current. This worldview was associated with the growth of the anti-roads movement( Reclaim The Streets), the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front. The magazine Green Anarchist was for a while the principal voice advocating green anarchism, an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking. Founded after the 1984 Stop the City protests, the magazine was launched in the summer of that year by an editorial collective consisting of Alan Albon, Richard Hunt and Marcus Christo. Early issues featured a range of broadly anarchist and ecological ideas, bringing together groups and individuals as varied as Class War, veteran anarchist writer Colin Ward, anarcho-punk band Crass, as well as the Peace Convoy, anti-nuclear campaigners, animal rights activists and so on. However the diversity that many saw as the publication's greatest strength quickly led to irreconcilable arguments between the essentially pacifist approach of Albon and Christo, and the advocacy of violent confrontation with the State favoured by Hunt. During the 1990s Green Anarchist came under the helm of an editorial collective that included Paul Rogers, Steve Booth and others, during which period the publication became increasingly aligned with primitivism, an anti-civilization philosophy advocated by writers such as John Zerzan, Bob Black and Fredy Perlman. The Direct Action Movement formed in 1979, when the one remaining SWF branch, along with other smaller anarchist groups, decided to form a new organisation of anarcho-syndicalists in Britain. [2] The DAM was highly involved in the Miners' Strike as well as a series of industrial disputes later in the 1980s, including the Ardbride dispute in Ardrossan, Scotland, involving a supplier to Laura Ashley, for which the DAM received international support. From 1988 in Scotland, then England and Wales, the DAM was active in opposing the Poll Tax. [3] In the early 1990s, DAM members set up the Despatch Industry Workers Union, which successfully organised workers for a number of inner-city courier firms. [4] The Solidarity Federation, also known by the abbreviation SolFed, is a federation of class struggle anarchists. The organisation advocates a strategy of anarcho-syndicalism as a method of abolishing capitalism and the state. In March 1994 it adopted its current name, having previously been the Direct Action Movement since 1979, and before that the Syndicalist Workers' Federation since 1950. SolFed publishes the quarterly magazine Direct Action (presently on hiatus) and the newspaper Catalyst. Several locals and networks also publish their own newsletters. Along with the Anarchist Federation it is one of the two national anarchist federations active in the UK at the present time.
In July 2011 the Metropolitan Police Service called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police." [7] However, they later retracted this statement. citation needed References
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