Description
Edited by Tony Simpson & Tom Unterrainer
Ken Coates edited The Spokesman journal for four decades from its inception in 1970. He discussed at length with Bertrand Russell the purposes of The Spokesman and the contents of its inaugural issue in the months before Russell’s death in early 1970. Russell died while that first issue was with the printers in Nottingham. There was only time to add this ‘sad but proud statement: The Spokesman, founded by Bertrand Russell, is dedicated to carrying on his work.’
We dedicate this special issue of The Spokesman to the memory of Ken Coates and his lifelong activism, commitment and creativity. In large part, Ken continued Russell’s work for peace, human right and social justice, but he was always his own man, as this diverse selection reveals.
CONTENTS:
Editorial Tony Simpson [download pdf]
Introduction Tom Unterrainer [download pdf]
We haven’t long [download pdf]
Algeria [download pdf]
The Dirty War in Mr. Wilson [download pdf]
Wage Slaves [download pdf]
What is the IWC? [download pdf]
The Way We Still Live Now [download pdf]
Socialism and the Environment [download pdf]
Towards Self-Management [download pdf]
Education as a Life-Long Experience [download pdf]
Making Peace in Europe [download pdf]
Common Ruin, Barbarism or Exterminism? [download pdf]
A New Internationalism [download pdf]
A New Age of Trade Unionism [download pdf]
Israel’s Bomb [download pdf]
Listening for Peace [download pdf]
International Cooperation [download pdf]
Why the European Parliament should meet the Supreme Soviet [download pdf]
The Right to Work [download pdf]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years On [download pdf]
Peace and Human Rights Are Overdue [download pdf]
Trident [download pdf]
Democracy – Growing or Dying [download pdf]
Reviews
Prolific writer and organiser, Glyn Ford, Chartist, July/August 2025 [download pdf]
