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March 8, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Oxford, ‘no platform’ and free speech battles: A short history

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  • Australian authorities and the far right threat: A historical perspective
    This was originally posted over at my Patreon here. In the aftermath of the far right storming of the US Capitol on 6 January and the Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormarck, drawing a comparison between this and the Black Lives Matter rallies across the world last year, there have been renewed questions about how […]
  • Peace in the Gulf! Western forces out! Revolutionary Communist Students manifestos for 1991
    This post originally featured over at my Patreon here and is part of some work in progress stuff for the book project on the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Following on from my previous post on the Revolutionary Communist Students’ election manifestos for the NUS conference in April 1990, I am writing about the […]
  • Media platforms and social media deplatforming: Some history and context
    With the decision by Twitter and Facebook to deplatform Donald Trump and other far right accounts, as well as on-going debate about the reporting on the far right by the media, I thought I’d post this excerpt from book, No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech. While it is […]
  • “On the Offensive for a Fighting Union”: Revolutionary Communist Students’ manifestos for 1990 NUS conference
    This piece was originally posted over at Patreon. As part of my research into the history of ‘no platform’ at British universities, I came across copies of the manifestos for the Revolutionary Communist Students’ candidates at the NUS conference in April 1990 (alongside some for subsequent years). The RCS was a lively part of the […]
  • Buy two of my books and get 25% off
    Routledge are having a sale at the moment and the deal is buy one book and get 20 per cent off, buy two and get 25 per cent off. So you could buy two of my books, No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech and The Far Left in […]
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