Colin Ward

¿Es posible construir espacios de libertad dentro de un marco social represivo? La práctica de la autogestión, la horizontalidad, el apoyo mutuo y la cooperación son perfectamente realizables en la vida cotidiana. Eso es también la anarquía. Porque la anarquía en acción, además de idea motora de un proceso de cambio global, es sobre todo la puesta en práctica de sus posibilidades de liberación concreta en los conflictos cotidianos. Herramientas al alcance de todos para construir en el día a día una alternativa al desastre. Anarquía en acción es el libro que reúne las claves del pensamiento de Colin Ward (Wanstead, 1924 - Ipswich, 2010), el mayor pensador anarquista británico contemporáneo.

El anarquismo es una ideología social y política que, a pesar de una historia de derrotas, resurge continuamente en una nueva forma o en un país nuevo. En años recientes, evoca imágenes de protesta agresiva contra el Banco Mundial, el FMI y las instituciones capitalistas. Sin embargo, el anarquismo es mucho mas que protesta y rabia. En este ensayo apasionado, que se ha convertido en su libro mas leido, Colin Ward pone el foco en los elementos esenciales del pensamiento y la practica anarquista, desde los “padres" del siglo XIX hasta nuestros dias. Sobre todo, delinea los rasgos constitutivos del enfoque libertario, igualitario y solidario, que hacen de este una referencia constante y vital para una multiplicidad de acciones que tienden a la reapropiacion desde abajo del control social.

The Allotment is the classic study of allotments it looks at British society and history through the culture of allotments With a new introduction by Olivia Laing this book remains as relevant as ever and is essential for everyone interested in social history land ownership and gardening in twenty first century Britain

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Throughout the 70s and early 80s English football hooligans wreaked havoc throughout England and Europe until the authorities decided that enough was enough. Chelsea supporters were targeted, and one man in particular, Steve Hickey Hickmott, was deemed to be public enemy number one and arrested. This explosive story, told in Steves own words, reveals the humour, camaraderie and escapades of life on the terraces and charts his fight for justice in the face of a system heavily biased against him, but where his battle to clear his name was eventually won.

Colin Ward spent much of the 1970s and 1980s on the terraces of football grounds around the country, and following England across the continent. It was a time when passionate support of your team did not mean wearing the team shirt and subscribing to your clubs TV station. Instead, it often meant having to defend your part of the stadium against attacks from opposition fans, confrontations with the police, and some decidedly hair-raising encounters. Although, post-Hillsborough, this seems like a vanished era, the world of the football hooligan still has the power to fascinate. No one has captured the atmosphere with the same authenticity as Ward, who reveals the truth behind the easy headlines: the camaraderie, the unexpected friendships between rival groups, the characters who attained near mythical status. Controversial, provocative and above all brilliantly told, Steaming Intakes the reader right to the heart of the action.

Colin Ward What do anarchists want? It seems easier to classify them by what they don''t want, namely, the organizations of the State, and to identify them with rioting and protest rather than with any coherent ideology. But with demonstrations like those against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund being blamed on anarchists, it is clear that an explanation of what they do stand for is long overdue. Colin Ward provides answers to these questions by considering anarchism from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, historical, and international, and by exploring key anarchist thinkers, from Kropotkin to Chomsky. He looks critically at anarchism by evaluating key ideas within it, such as its blanket opposition to incarceration, and policy of "no compromise" with the apparatus of political decision-making. Can anarchy ever function effectively as a political force? Is it more "organized" and "reasonable" than is currently perceived? Whatever the politics of the reader, Ward''s argument ensures that anarchism will be much better understood after experiencing this book.

All Quiet on the Hooligan Front is a compelling exploration into the changing face of football. Covering the years just prior to the Hillsborough disaster up to the present day, it shows how the mood of English football has changed dramatically since the era of hooliganism described in its predecessor, the hugely successful Steaming In. The book revolves around the authors travels and gives a vivid portrayal of the fun that fans have when supporting their team. It looks at how football has changed now that the terraces have gone, and gives an insight into how members of the press often distort the truth about the game in order to sell more papers. The book emphasises the importance now assigned to marketing within football and, on a darker note, looks at the advent of the drugs culture amongst fans.All Quiet on the Hooligan Front chronicles all of the changes which have occurred in the game post-Hillsborough, and leaves it for the reader to decide whether these have been good or bad for the beautiful game.

"[The book contains] a wide range of practicable activities that, in the words of the authors, connect language in our head to our arms and legs, eyes and ears." Scott Thornbury, Author of How to Teach Grammar and Grammar Uncovered from the ForewordLanguage is more than words. But too often, we teach grammar as a set of boring rules, best practiced by filling out worksheet after worksheet. 60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities bursts this myth with a collection of activities that get students out of their seats and learning in a dynamic and active classroom. The benefits of kinetic language learning activities are many: teach gesture and non-verbal communication, activate our embodied mind, make grammar memorable, change the dynamics of the classroom, build community, and raise students moods.Youll find the activities inside are all low-prep or no-prep, easy to adapt to your classroom, and flexible enough to work with a variety of target language features.

Chris Henderson formed the Chelsea Headhunters who later earned a reputation as the most dangerous fans in Britain - as well as the band Combat 84 who, with their punk attitude and uncut, Orwellian lyrics, represented the antithesis of middle-class England. After the jailing of Stephen Hickey Hickmott, Henderson organised a gang of Chelsea fans who travelled to matches by luxury coach with the aim of causing havoc and destruction. They were finally arrested and their subsequent trial was meant to be the crowning glory of Thatchers campaign to vanquish hooliganism. Instead, the dramatic collapse of the case sounded the death knell for all the undercover police operations and mass indiscriminate arrests that had been ordered by the authorities to squash the activities of Henderson and others.The Ministry continued to pursue Henderson and prior to the 2002 World Cup, he and Hickmott were named as the two leaders planning hooligan and criminal acts for the tournament in South Korea and Japan, which culminated in Henderson being arrested and refused entry to Japan for the England v. Argentina match.Told in Hendersons exact words, this is the dramatic story of an era of music and football, when how you looked counted as much as how you performed. With its depiction of events surrounding South Korea/Japan 2002, Who Wants It? also shows how the scourge of hooliganism continues to blight the beautiful game today.

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Este libro explora las infinitamente variadas experiencias de los niños a la hora de habitar la ciudad y el proceso por el cual su desbordante capacidad de inventar escenarios urbanos y vivencias en comun ha ido siendo aplacada hasta llevar en palabras de Manuel Delgado al acuartelamiento de la infancia al que hoy asistimos. El niño en la ciudad, publicado por primera vez en 1978, se convirtio rapidamente en un clasico. Este volumen incluye el prologo y epilogo a la segunda edicion, textos en los que Colin Ward actualiza su obra mas celebrada y la presenta a una nueva generacion de lectores. Con mucha pena pero respetando escrupulosamente el criterio del autor, prescindimos aqui de las fotografias que ilustraban la primera edicion de la obra. Este libro cuenta con un prologo de Manuel Delgado escrito para la ocasion.

La ciudad está en disputa. El espacio público, la vivienda o el turismo son sólo algunos de los conflictos más conocidos. Sin embargo, hay un estrato prácticamente invisibilizado y que Colin Ward coloca encima de la mesa: el lugar de las niñas y los niños. Viven limitada su libertad de desplazamiento, sufren la amenaza de los vehiculos a motor y se les empuja a los espacios amables. Se impone el parque infantil: un gueto vallado, desinfectado, sin esquinas, de plastico y con colores coherentes. Quedan atras los terrenos baldios y las zonas abandonadas. El playground de arena y barro, palos y cuerdas, tizas y canicas no es util para el urbanismo capitalista. El espacio muerto sustituye al espacio vivo. En El niño en la ciudad, Ward recupera la vida real, la autonomia y la fuerza de toda esa gente pequeña cada vez mas arrinconada en la ciudad liberal. ¡Abajo los parques infantiles!