Writings

Articles, presentations and papers by the author include the following (materials with clickable titles are available in full-text):

2018. ‘International Anthem – Gee Vaucher [review]’, Punk and Post-Punk, Volume 7, Number 3, pp.453-457. 10.1386/punk.7.3.447_5.
2017. ‘Gee Vaucher: Introspective [review]’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 6, Number 1, pp.148-150. 10.1386/punk.6.1.137_5
2017. ‘Vi Day, Another Winter of Discontent Festival, The Dome, The Boston Arms, London, 19 February 2017 [review]’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 6, Number 1, pp.163-166. 10.1386/punk.6.1.163_5
2017. ‘Being reflective about Introspective: An interview with Stevphen Shukaitis’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 6, Number 1, pp.151-155. 10.1386/punk.6.1.151_7
2016. ‘The Art of Crass exhibition [review]’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 5, Number 2, pp.205-209. 10.1386/punk.5.2.205_5.
2014. ‘”Take the Toys from the Boys”: Gender, Generation and Anarchist Intent in the Work of Poison Girls’, Punk & Post-Punk, Vol 3, Number 2, pp.117-145 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/punk.3.2.117_1
2010. ‘There Is No Authority But Yourself’: The Individual and the Collective in British Anarcho-Punk. Music and Politics, Volume IV, Issue 2, Summer. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mp.9460447.0004.203
2004. ‘The Hippies Now Wear Black: Crass and anarcho-punk, 1977-1984’, Socialist History, No 26, pp.25-44

2017. ‘When John met Clem’, in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), And All Around Was Darkness, Itchy Monkey Press, pp.229-232. ISBN 978-1-291-74025-7
2017. ‘Fifteen shades of grey’, in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), And All Around Was Darkness, Itchy Monkey Press, pp.218-227. ISBN 978-1-291-74025-7
2016. ‘”Stop the City showed another possibility”: Mobilisation and Movement in Anarcho-Punk’, in Matt Worley and Mike Dines (eds.), The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music – 1979-1984, Minor Compositions: Colchester / New York / Port Watson. ISBN 978-1-57027-318-6 [ Free eBook download | Print copy available to buy from Minor Compositions ]
2016. ‘”Why do you think that they are laughing?”, in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), ‘Some of Us Scream Some of Us Shout’: Myths, Folklore and Epic Tales of the Anarcho, (Itchy Monkey Press) [ Buy from Active Distribution or Situation Press ]
2015. ‘Crass Exeter September 1982’, in Gregory Bull and Mickey ‘Penguin’ (eds.), Not Just Bits of Paper, Perdam Babylonis Nomen Publications, pp.36-40. ISBN-10: 1505703387; ISBN-13: 9781505703382 [ Buy book from the Situation Press shop ]
2014. ‘British Anarchism in the era of Thatcherism’, in Evan Smith and Matthew Worley (eds.), Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956 (Manchester: Manchester University Press) [ See MUP catalogue entry for details of the book ] [ See Google Books preview ]

2017. ‘The Politics of Punk’, with Steve Ignorant and Ruth Elias, Punk It Up!, Rough Trade Nottingham, 15 July
2015. ‘”Movements are systems, and systems kill”: the reluctant collectivity of anarcho-punk’, Youth, Politics and Identity Symposium, [The Subcultures Network – AHRC Networking Project: Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change], University of Surrey, 31 March
2013. ‘You’ll Never Beat the System by Bombing Number 10’: Perceptions of the Utility of Political Violence in Anarcho-Punk, 1977-1987, No Sir, I Won’t conference, Oxford Brookes University, 28 June
2002. ‘The Politics of Punk’. Paper given at Sources of Radicalism seminar, University of Manchester, 11 May
2001. ‘Yes that’s right, punk is dead: Crass and the anarcho-punk critique’. Paper given at No Future conference, University of Wolverhampton, 21 September
2000. ‘The Politics of Crass and Anarcho-Punk’, presentation for Riotous Assembly meeting, Manchester, 7 March
1999. ‘Anarchism and Punk Rock’, presentation for WEA course on Anarchism, Manchester, November
1999. ‘Stop the City: A history’. Paper given at Riotous Assembly meeting, Manchester, 1 June

2017. ‘Stop the City showed another possibility’: Mobilisation and movement in anarcho-punk’, in Stevphen Shukaitis (ed.), Stop the City [booklet accompanying ‘Stop the City… Revisited’, An exhibition organized as part of the “Discipline the City” series, The Substation, Singapore, 23 August–23 November], republished from Matt Worley and Mike Dines (eds.), 2016. The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music – 1979-1984, Minor Compositions: Colchester / New York / Port Watson.
Alistair Livingston. 2014. ‘Everyone was an anarchist’, greengalloway, 10 March [includes an extract from the ‘Stop the City’ article in Freedom]
Erin Yanke. 2014.’Poison Girls’, Maximum RocknRoll, No 379, December [includes extracts from the ‘Stop the City’ article in Freedom]
Ian Glasper. 2006. ‘Metro Youth’, in The Day the Country Died, London: Cherry Red, pp.227-230.
Lance Hahn. 2002. ‘”There’s too much on my mind”: The Story of Metro Youth / Sanction’, Maximum RocknRoll, No 224, January [interview on band histories]