Colin Barker

Colin Barker (born 1939) is a British Marxist writer and historian, a longstanding member of the Socialist Workers Party in Manchester and author of numerous articles and works on Marxism, most notably a history of Solidarity, Festival of the Oppressed.

Colin Barker was a member of the International Socialism Group in Oxford and Manchester from 1962, and a member of the Executive and National Committee. He was also a member of the editorial board of International Socialism journal for several years. He was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he worked from 1967 to 2002.

Selected articles/works

• Incomes policy, legislation and shop stewards ( with Tony Cliff) (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 Lavalette 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)

References

• Short bio
• Short bio in MMU sociology newsletter

External links

• Colin Barker Internet Archive
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