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Month: August 2017

August 20, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Cypriot colonial citizenship and UK immigration controls, 1920s-1950s

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‘The Far Left in Australia since 1945’ – forthcoming with Routledge

August 6, 2017 hatfulofhistory

The Communist Party and the ‘White Australia Policy’, 1920-45

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  • The BNP and the hijacking of the Free Speech Society at Leeds University
    In the House of Commons yesterday, the Tories’ Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill was debated. Labour MP Alex Sobel, who attended Leeds University, told the story of Mark Collett and Chris Beverley, who were BNP members that tried to overturn the ‘no platform’ policy at Leeds in the early 2000s, via the Free Speech […]
  • Collected reviews of ‘No Platform’ book
    My book, No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech, has been out for a year and has been reviewed in several publications. I thought I’d collect them here, particularly as they’re an easy reference point for me then. Review by Nick Hillman in Times Higher Education. Mike Makin-Waite, ‘Controversial […]
  • Marxism and football at the 1966 World Cup: How North Korea captured a socialist imagination
    Ever since the English football team was denounced for taking the knee by some right-wing pundits, who claimed that this was a symbolic action of the ‘Marxist’ Black Lives Matter movement, the meme of the English players as revolutionary Marxists has become widespread. Since English football has embraced Marxism, it has been memed, football is […]
  • CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century
    Here is a call for papers that I am involved with. “Imperialism and its agents must be destroyed”: Australian Workers and Anti-Colonialism in the twentieth century The Australian working-class movement has a mixed history of internationalism and solidarity, to say the least. The Communist Party Weekly Worker declared it the responsibility of “workers and the […]
  • Me in Jacobin on Australian universities and the free speech culture wars
    This is just a quick post to let you all know that Jacobin Australia has published a piece by myself on the transnational free speech culture wars and the attacks on Australian universities, linking what has been happening in this country with what is happening in Britain and the US. You can read the article […]
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