The first in the series was the Introduction to the 1970s political group “Big Flame”, Big Flame were a libertarian Marxist political party in the United Kingdom. They were founded in Liverpool in 1970 and at first grew rapidly in the prevailing climate on the left.

The second was the 1924 Presidential Address to the Independent Labour Party conference, “Putting Socialism in to Practice”.

This edition, number 3, “Crime becomes Custom, Custom becomes Crime” covering the historical economic relationship with crime was originally written for the Making Social Movements conference at Edge Hill University in 2002 (The British Marxist Historians and the study of social movements). The paper was put on the net in 2002 on the Edge Hill website and elsewhere. Thousands have been downloaded from the Wombles website alone since then, and it is now being published for the first time in the UK. It was first published in Canada in 2008 as part of the No Quarter Pamphlet series on radical history.

Cl@ss War Classix is a new initiative to reproduce seminal publications of the class war.

Contact Cl@ss War Classix at: 07931 301901 or class.war.classix at googlemail.com to order, for review copies, or to suggest publications to reproduce.

Cl@ss War Classix can usually be found at events promoted on this website;
 http://workingclassbookfair.vpweb.com/ or Anarchist bookfairs, and some independent bookshops and social centres.

Or ordered from this address for £2 each, 3 for £5, cheques payable to “T.Bark”;
18 Walker Drive, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, DL14 6QW.

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