By Mark Shipway
A world without states, classes, money and wages-this was the goal of the anti parliamentary communists. To achieve it they agitated for a class-conscious working class to organise itself into workers' councils to overthrow capitalism. Their enemies included trade unions and the Labour Party, defenders of state capitalism masquerading as communism in Russia, and the democrats who led workers to the slaughter in Spain and two world wars.
This book explores the ideas and activities of the anti-parliamentarians in Britain between 1917 and 1945, from the ex suffragettes based around Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers' Dreadnought newspaper, to the Clydeside-based Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation and its offshoots.