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'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.

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Selected articles/works

References

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