Colin Barker
IS in the 60s: two thousand workers with bricks: the Roberts-Arundel...
Colin Barker recalls a key event for Manchester IS, an engineering strike six miles away in Stockport.
IS in the 60s: linking up with Manchester workers and fighting...
Colin Barker recalls how IS grew in 1960s Manchester – making links with engineers and building workers, and campaigning against racist police violence.
IS in the 60s: Building a revolutionary group from the ground...
Colin Barker describes how IS grew from tiny beginnings at Oxford University, and what drew people to the group.
The secret of its weakness: racism and the working class movement...
Colin Barker reviews Satnam Virdee's book Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider, which is an important contribution to the debates around race and class.
The elephant is political
"Anti-politics" has become a phrase widely used to describe the state of politics today. Here, Colin Barker examines what 'politics' meant for Marx and what it means for revolutionaries today.
Hundreds march against fracking in Eccles
Colin Barker, Ewa Barker, and Anne Saxon report from Sunday’s rally and look at the damage that fracking can do.