Talking Anarchy - Paperback

by Colin Ward (Author), David Goodway (Author)

Of all political views, anarchism is the most ill-represented. For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change--and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for New Statesman, New Society, Freedom, and Town and Country Planning.

In Talking Anarchy, Colin Ward discusses with David Goodway the ups and downs of the anarchist movement during the last century, including the many famous characters who were anarchists, or associated with the movement, including Herbert Read, Alex Comfort, Marie Louise Berneri, Paul Goodman, Noam Chomsky, and George Orwell.

Author Biography

Colin Ward was Britain's foremost anarchist writer. He was the editor of Freedom newspaper and Anarchy magazine, and is the author or coauthor of more than 30 books, including The Allotment, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction, Anarchy in Action, Arcadia for All Talking Green, and Cotters and Squatters. David Goodway is a British social and cultural historian who has written principally on anarchism and libertarian socialism. He is the author of Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward and is the editor of For Anarchism, Herbert Read Reassessed, The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman, and collections of the writings of Alex Comfort, Herbert Read, Maurice Brinton, and Nicolas Walter.