Sunday, April 30, 2023

Alan Woodward autobiography now online

A post on this blog in January looked at where Alan Woodward's publications about past and present struggles could be found online.

Two more are now available:


Poor Boy's Tale: Alan's autobiography covering 1939-1997 is now online as a PDF at Libcom. It is a 256 page book which covers Alan's political and personal life as well as his progression from Leninism to libertarian socialism.




After Cable Street: Joe Jacobs 1940-1977 examines the period in the life of this Jewish working class militant after his classic "Out of the Ghetto" autobiography. It is now available online at Splits and Fusions archive

As Splits and Fusions say, After Cable Street:

"...contains a wealth of information on the far-left, libertarian and councilist milieu.

In this case actual biographical details of Jacobs’ life are few and the pamphlet focuses much more on the politics of Solidarity and its European co-thinkers and related groups.

There is a substantial discussion of the ICO (Informations et correspondances ouvrières) and the Echanges & Mouvement network of which Joe Jacobs was a British correspondent."