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The political right and 'anti wokeness'
Wokeness and anti wokeness are inventions of the political right on both sides of the Atlantic. They are confected ideas that are pushed by elite thi…
10 months, 1 week ago
From F. Scott Fitzgerald to pulp detective novels - 1925 America's greatest literary year
A century ago, America was the literary and intellectual powerhouse of the world. Black writers defined the black experience in the Harlem Renaissanc…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Britain, France and the creation of Iraq 1919-21
When the mandate system was created at the Paris Peace Conference, it became a powerful tool for the British and French to carve up the Middle East a…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The plot against Harold Wilson - 1967
In the late 1960s the British secret state, bankers, right wing newspaper and TV proprietors and other elite figures sought to remove Prime Minister …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Carter, Reagan, Bush and China
From the late 1970s onwards China and the USSR were on two very different historical paths and three US presidents, Carter, Reagan and Bush sought to…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Maoism and Anti Imperialism
Mao's ideas presented a clear challenge to western imperialism throughout the 20th Century and became a rallying cry to national liberation movements…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Britain's Broken Media
In the past two decades successive scandals have revealed that Britain has some of the worst media institutions in the developed world. The ability o…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Gaza Update
Britain, France, Canada and other western governments have today issued a statement decrying the blockade of Gaza after nearly two years of offering …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
China after Deng (Part One)
Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao are often overlooked but pivotal figures in recent Chinese history whose role in steering China through its extraordinary e…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Discussing Mark Twain's 'Jim'
The character of Jim in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was written as a condemnation of the Jim Crow regimes that were springing up…
10 months, 3 weeks ago