Colin Revolting
Anarchy in the UK? The politics and people that produced punk...
For the 40th anniversary of the birth of punk, Colin Revolting considers its origins and influences.
The student butterfly that flapped its wings in Paris,...
Dario Fo: playwright, performer and revolutionary
Colin Revolting and friends pay tribute to Dario Fo who died this week at the age of 90.
Dario Fo was a great playwright of the...
Letters from an anti-fascist fighter in Spain
Following the Battle of Cable Street, Scottish communist Jim 'Jock' McKissock travelled to Spain to fight against fascism 80 years ago. He wrote letters to...
Homage to Catalonia: the working class in the saddle
In a series of articles marking the anniversary of General Franco's military coup against the Republican government of Spain Colin Revolting revisits George Orwell's masterpiece of revolutionary reportage.
Can we afford to laugh at ourselves in Broken Britain? A...
In the bleak years of Stalinist Russia Nikolai Erdman wrote a grim satire about a man planning to take his own life. In the...
Kes: a tale for our times. Remembering Barry Hines.
Barry Hines, the author of such books as A Kestrel for a Knave, which became the film Kes, has died aged 76. Colin Revolting...
John Roan Resists: Kick-starting a community campaign
Fighting against the academisation of a London school, by Colin Revolting with Juliana J.
Recipe for a community campaign:
Ingredients: a small group of parents and...
Pilfering, pranks and working-class pride – a review of the BBC’s...
The BBC sitcom Cradle to Grave is a sympathetic and engaging portrait of working-class London, set at a key time for class struggle. Colin...
“You can’t organise a riot”: racism, riots and arrests in...
In memory of John "Brad" Bradbury of the Specials who topped the charts with Ghost Town whilst Britain burst into flames of riots and...
Syd Shelton Rock Against Racism exhibition highlights contrasts and conflicts of...
A collection of anti-racist activist and photographer Syd Shelton's work from Rock Against Racism is currently on display at the Autograph ABP gallery in...