Colin Barker
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Colin Barker is a British sociologist as well as a Marxist historian and writer. A long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party
in Manchester, he is the author of numerous articles and works on Marxism, including a history of the Polish trade union Solidarity, Festival of the Oppressed.
A Trotskyist
, Barker was a member of the International Socialism Group
in Oxford and Manchester from 1962. He was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
from 1967 to 2002.
Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
The Socialist Workers Party is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities...
in Manchester, he is the author of numerous articles and works on Marxism, including a history of the Polish trade union Solidarity, Festival of the Oppressed.
A Trotskyist
Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
, Barker was a member of the International Socialism Group
International Socialists
International Socialists is the name of a number of Trotskyist organizations.Most organisations using this name are in the International Socialist Tendency...
in Oxford and Manchester from 1962. He was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a university in North West England. Its headquarters and central campus is in the city of Manchester, but there are outlying facilities in the county of Cheshire. It is the third largest university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers, behind the...
from 1967 to 2002.
Selected articles/works
- Incomes policy, legislation and shop stewards (with Tony CliffTony CliffTony Cliff , was a Trotskyist who was a founding member of the Socialist Review Group which went on to become the Socialist Workers Party...
) (1966) - Involvement in strikes: some recent case-studies, etc (1966)
- The power game (1972)
- Theory of Capitalist States (1978)
- A ‘New’ Reformism?—A Critique of the Political Theory of Nicos Poulantzas(1979)
- Origins and Significance of the Meiji Restoration (1982)
- Solidarnosc : from Gdansk to military repression (with Kara Weber) (1982)
- Festival of the Oppressed: solidarity, reform and revolution in Poland, 1980-81 (1986)
- Revolutionary Rehearsals (editor) (1987)
- The development of British capitalist society: a Marxist debate (edited with David Nicholls) (1988)
- To make another world: studies in protest and collective action (edited with Paul Kennedy) (1996)
- Leadership and social movements (edited with Michael LavaletteMichael LavaletteMichael Lavalette is a member of the Socialist Workers Party and until May 2011 a local councillor in Preston, Lancashire, England. He was first elected as a Socialist Alliance candidate shortly after the start of the Iraq War in 2003. And re-elected as a Respect councillor in 2007...
and Alan Johnson) (2001) - In the middle way (review of Geoff Eley Forging Democracy) (2004)
- The rise of Solidarnosc(2005)
- Strike for Freedom(2006)
- Articles in Socialist Worker (2006)