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A DECADE OF ANARCHY: 1961-70 (Selections from the Monthly Journal Anarchy)

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ISBN 10: 
0 900384 37 9
ISBN 13: 
978 0 900384 37 0
Number of pages: 
287
First published: 
1987 as a book
This edition: 
1987
Blurb: 

One hundred and eighteen 32-page issues of Anarchy appeared during the ten years of its publication – some 4,000 pages. The present volume contains less than 10% of that material. The choice of material was left to Colin Ward who was the editor of Anarchy throughout those ten years and he has classified his selections under six headings:

Restatements in which a number of anarchists seek to link anarchist thought to the contemporary scene;

Experiences which are descriptions of the human condition in different parts of the world as witnessed by the writers;

Work consisting of four detailed essays ranging from the practical experience of the  Gang System in Coventry to the theoretical future of work;

Education the ever topical subject with contribution among others by Paul Goodman and Harold Drasdo;

Deviance yet another burning topic of the day with contributions from Tony Gibson and Stan Cohen; and lastly

Environments – all topics which Anarchy was discussing in the ‘60s and which are the order of the day worldwide in the ‘80s.
 

Contents: 

 Foreword -- Colin Ward

I.      RESTATEMENTS

1.  Conversations about anarchism
     Richard Boston interviewing Bill Christopher, Paul Goodman, George Melly, Jack Robinson, Donald and Irene    
     Rooum, Peter Turner, Nicholas Walter and Colin Ward.

2.  Conflicting strains in anarchist thought
     George Molnar

3.  Reflections on anarchism
     Geoffrey Ostergaard on contracting other relationships; Paul Goodman on the anarchist principle; Jeremy Westall       on authority; David Wieck on the habit of direct action

4.   Anarchism and the cybernetics of self-organising systems
      John D. McEwan

5.   Primitive societies and social myths
      Kenneth Maddock

6.   Not any power: reflections on decentralism
      George Woodcock

II.     EXPERIENCES
 
1.   Poor people
      Alan Sillitoe

2.   On refusing; personal preface to a handbook on selective trouble-making
      Kingsley Widmer

3.   Black anarchy in New York
      H.W. Morton

4.   Notes on Notting Hill
      John O' Connor

III.     WORK

1.   The gang system in Coventry
      Reg Wright

2.   Anarchism and trade unionism
      Gaston Gerad

3.   The relevance of syndicalism
      Geoffrey Ostergaard

4.   Work and surplus
      Keith Paton

IV.     EDUCATION

1.   The children and psychology
      Paul Goodman

2.   The character builders
      Harold Drasdo

3.   Bombed site and comprehensive school
      Winifred Handley

4.   About Risinghill
      Martin Small

V.      DEVIANCE

1.   Towards a libertarian criminology
      Tony Gibson

2.   The zoo-keepers of deviance
      Jock Young

3.   To be or not to be a female delinquent
      Sally Ann

4.   Notes on detention centres
      Stan Cohen

VI.     ENVIRONMENTS

1.   Direct action and the urban environment
      Robert Swann

2.   The new squatters
      Nicholas Walter

3.   Freedom and the environment
      Brian Richardson

VII.    RETROSPECTS

1.   After a hundred issues
      Colin Ward

2.   Covering ourselves
      Rufus Segar