Nationality British Name Colin Barker | Role Historian | |
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Books Revolutionary Rehearsals, Southend Trolleybuses, Mexborough and Swinton T, Ipswich Tramways, Derby Trolleybuses |
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Colin Barker (born 1939) is a British sociologist as well as a Marxist historian and writer. A former long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party in Manchester, he is the author of numerous articles and works on Marxism, including a history of the Polish trade union Solidarity, Festival of the Oppressed.
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A Trotskyist, Barker was a member of the International Socialism Group in Oxford and Manchester from 1962. He was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1967 to 2002 and is an organiser of the periodic International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest there.
He regularly spoke at the Socialist Workers Party's annual Marxism event. In 2013, he joined opposition to the SWP Central Committee's handling of the allegations of rape made against 'Comrade Delta'. and left the organisation in 2014.