Category: Public service announcements
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Podcast interview on the RCP/LM/Spiked network
I am happy to announce that I was interviewed by the Politics Theory Other podcast recently about the history of Revolutionary Communist Party, Living Marxism and Spiked. That episode is currently freely available via the PTO Patreon page and should be on other podcast feeds in the near future. I hope you check it out!
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Guardian piece on the ‘war on woke’ and the ‘loony left’
A quick post to mention that last week The Guardian published a piece by myself on the Tories’ current ‘war on woke’ and its similarities with the right-wing attacks on the ‘loony left’ in the 1980s. You can read the piece here.
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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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So I started a Patreon…
This is just a quick note to let you all know that I have started a Patreon. As someone who is precariously employed, but doing a lot more freelance writing and researching, I thought a Patreon would be worth pursuing. I will be posting stuff on there that would usually go on this blog. Some…
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Forthcoming book – No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech
Very excited to end the year with the announcement that my book No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech will be published next year by Routledge as part of the Fascism and Far Right series. Here is the blurb: This book is the first to outline the history of the…
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UK events
I am leaving for the UK for research and will be travelling for the next few weeks, taking in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Nottingham and Birmingham. Here are a few of the events that I will be speaking at: Tuesday, 25th June – ‘From Subversives to Snow Flakes: Fifty Years of Fears of Student Politics…
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Two new opinion pieces on the history of fascism and anti-fascism
A quick post to let people know that I have had two opinion pieces published this week on the history of fascism and anti-fascism in Britain and Australia. Firstly, the Times Higher Education website published a piece on the pre-history of ‘no platform’ and the protests against far right speakers on university campuses in the…
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Far left book launch at Historical Materialism Sydney (13 Dec)
I am happy to announce that Jon Piccini and I will be launching the book that we have co-edited with Matthew Worley, The Far Left in Australian since 1945, at Historical Materialism Sydney next month. Joining Jon and I will be contributors Ana Stevenson and Isabelle Barrett Meyering, as well as Hannah Forsyth. The launch will…
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New covers for paperback editions of books on the history of the British far left
I am very happy to announce that for the new paperback editions of Against the Grain and Waiting for the Revolution – our two books on the British far left from 1956 – Manchester University Press have designed new covers for each volume. Inspired by the left-wing pamphlets of the 1970s, Matt and I are excited to see them!…