Colin Ward

Colin Ward (1924–2010) was Britain’s foremost anarchist writer. Editor of Freedom newspaper and then Anarchy magazine from 1947 to 1970, he is the author or coauthor of over thirty books, including Anarchy in Action, Talking Green, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction, Cotters and Squatters, The Allotment, and Arcadia for All.

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“It is difficult to match the empirical strength, the lucidity of prose, and the integration of theory and practical insight in the magnificent body of work produced by the veteran anarchist Colin Ward.”
—Prospect

“Colin Ward has never written a highly paid column for a national newspaper or been on the bestseller lists, but his fan club is distinguished, and his influence wider than he himself may know.”
—Times Literary Supplement

“In Anarchy in Action, Colin Ward set out his belief that an anarchist society was not an end goal. . . . Ward saw all distant goals as a form of tyranny and believed that anarchist principles could be discerned in everyday human relations and impulses. Within this perspective, politics was about strengthening co-operative relations and supporting human ingenuity in its myriad vernacular and everyday forms.”
—Guardian (UK)

“Anarchy, for Ward, was a system in which mutuality predominates; and in a series of books he explored ‘anarchist applications,’ championing such groups as allotment-holders, prefab dwellers, amateur music-makers, squatters, DIY housebuilders and others who operate in the penumbra of the bureaucratic state.”
—Telegraph (UK)

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Praise

“It is difficult to match the empirical strength, the lucidity of prose, and the integration of theory and practical insight in the magnificent body of work produced by the veteran anarchist Colin Ward.”
—Prospect

“Colin Ward has never written a highly paid column for a national newspaper or been on the bestseller lists, but his fan club is distinguished, and his influence wider than he himself may know.”
—Times Literary Supplement

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Reviews

• Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow in a Center for a Stateless Society
• Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: A Review
• Talking Anarchy in Ojai Orange
• Talking Anarchy: A Review
• Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: A Publishers Weekly Review
• Anarchism and Education: A CHOICE Review
• Imagining the Future: What Anarchism Brings to Education
• Anarchism and Education: An Anarchist Studies Review

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