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| | British Anarchism and the Miners Strike |
 | | While anarchisms that prioritised liberation from class domination were the dominant forms of libertarianism in Britain at the end of the nineteenth and the start of the twentieth century, by the early 198s5, versions of anarchism based on liberal concepts of agency had come to the fore in Anglo-American circles. |
 | | According to the working class militant Stuart Christie, the rise of the counterculture, with its pacifist leanings, meant that anarchism was 'side-tracked by the new left, anti-bomb, militant-liberal-conscience element away from being a revolutionary working class movement' (Christie, 1980: 31). |
 | | A further tactic advanced by Class War was 'open[ing] up a second front in the cities to back the miners' (Class War, 1984ec: 3), stretching the sites of resistance from coalfields to the general control of social and community life, and thereby invoking a wider view of the agent for (potential) change. |
| www.londonclasswar.org /britishanarchism.php (8160 words) |
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