In Daniel Randall’s review of my book for our shared organisation Workers’ Liberty, he raises the following critique: “One cannot hold water in one’s hands; a too fluid conception of the construction and reconstruction of “race” risk depriving it of any explanatory value whatsoever. In my own book, Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists, […]
If you would like to buy the book “Why Socialist Feminism?”, please click here. (Image from Wikimedia Commons: Wallpaper at Jaume I’s building playground at Ciutadella campus from University Pompeu Fabra against patriarchy and capitalism.)
The following is a recording of my lead-off at a Sheffield Workers’ Liberty public meeting on 15th October 2015. I hope you find it of some interest.
“On an antiquated, ridiculously heavy frankenstein’s monster of a bike, I rode up agonising hills and down wild descents. I was last home and felt it for days. And here’s the thing: my mind, my imagination, my sense of history and somehow my spirit of solidarity were all reinspired and reinvigorated, just as my craving […]
If you would like to follow up on the ideas presented in this podcast, please see my journal paper ‘The Anti-Imperialism of Fools’: A Cautionary Story on the Revolutionary Socialist Vanguard of England’s Post-9/11 Anti-War Movement, and Workers’ Liberty’s The British far left on Syria and Culture shift on the left.
This is a full recording of my session at the All The Rage conference on Saturday 28th February 2015. See also, my post, I’m with motion. and my podcast, Lessons from India: towards a global analysis of sexual violence.
I came to revolutionary socialist politics in 1996 at the age of nineteen. These two badges still have a deep affect on me – stirring a raw political passion for justice and a personal sense of responsibility to ‘do something’ in the face of injustice. Moreover, the badges are a reminder of the impact of two […]
Here is a podcast based on the lead-off that I gave at the 2014 Ideas for Freedom conference. I hope you find it of some political and intellectual use:
The following podcast is based on my speech presented in a debate with Marcus Halaby of Workers’ Power at the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty Summer School in July 2010. Also, below this link, is a brief photo essay of what happened when Sheffield Workers’ Liberty comrades participated in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in January […]
I. These are the rules A storm should leave in its wake stillness and clarity. Marxism to me works as a method of thinking and application; a body of ideas and a school of experience; a theory to apply to any given reality with an analytical rigour and honesty; and, a process of testing, modifying […]
Anaemic On A Bike 