The Slow Burning Fuse

Description

In the accounts of the radical movements that have shaped our history,

anarchism has received a raw deal. Its visions and aims have been distorted

and misunderstood, its achievements forgotten. John Quail, in this first

major work, shows a history largely obscured and rewritten following 1919

and the triumph of Leninist communism. The time has arrived to resurrect

the works of the early anarchist clubs, their unsung heroes, tumultuous

political activities, and searing manifestos so that a truer image of

radical dissent and history can be formed. Quail''s story of the anarchists

is one of utopias created in imagination and half-realised in practice, of

individual fights and movements for freedom and self-expression – a story

still being written today.