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James Carter, P. J. Lisa, Guylaine Lanctot and the greatest of them all, Ivan Illich. You will find a Health Freedom bibliography on the last pages of this site. Being in touch with this literature and its history is perhaps as important as browsing the internet and reaching the links of other health freedom organisations, to be aware of the written history of this movement and these groups. Writers and their output are the life blood of campaigning groups and we should never lose our grasp of their work.
Books prior to Dirty Medicine 1993
Poor man Beggar Man Thief: The story of New Horizon Youth Centre. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1972.
Following the occupation of Hornsey College of Art in 1968, I and five other students were expelled. For a while I had no idea of what I could do, I had wanted to paint since childhood. In the end, following the example of the ideas which precipitated the occupation -
State of Siege; Policing the Miners Strike. Canary Press, London. 1985.
During the time that I was involved in the Miner’s strike, working with Susan Miller and the late Jim Coulter, the three of us wrote three booklets which were meant to inform pickets of their rights and tell them of the strategies used by the police. The first two booklets were published by Yorkshire NUM and then when a third was added, they were all published as State of Siege by Canary Press, still during the strike.
A Turn of the Screw: The aftermath of the 1984-
At the end of the strike there were around 80 miners in prison for offences they were said to have committed during the strike. Given the political and criminal way in which the police behaved during the strike, I always thought that there was a good argument for the cases of all the miners in prison, to be reviewed. Many of the men
