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Meltzer, Albert. I couldn't paint golden angels: sixty years of commonplace life and anarchist agitation
Historically, authentic voices of the radical working class have been smothered by the steady stream of tomes and treatises from learned academics who have often shared little in common with the class in whose name they have spoken. All too rarely do common people who actually work outside of academia all their lives have a chance to get a word in edgewise where radical theory and history are concerned.
Albert Meltzer has been a lifelong anarchist (an anti-authoritarian, anti-state revolutionary), a lifelong syndicalist (an advocate of radical, self-organized workers' unions), and a life-long industrial worker (primarily in the English newspaper industry). As such, he has...