For Workers’ Power

Many radicals have had their eyes opened by Maurice Brinton. The most prolific writer of the British Solidarity group (1961-1992), his work slaughtered count-less sacred cows of standard leftist thinking. He wrote with passion, clarity, and consistency on behalf of worker self-activity and self-management and to decry those “socialists” who reinforced passivity, hierarchy, and alienation among workers. Today, when a new crop of so-called democratic socialists are seeking state power, allegedly on behalf of working people, Brinton’s ideas are more relevant than ever.