Stack of the book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic
And what's more leftist than that
The British ambassador to St. Petersburg in 1859 on his French counterpart: "...a kind hearted and conciliatory man, but troubled occassionally with that susceptibility which not uncommonly renders a Frenchman more intent upon trifles than upon matters of serious import.."
My journal article on James Connolly as a pioneering anti-colonial thinker is online, open access in Modern Intellectual History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Printed instructions for microwaving a potato with encircled bullet point, “Potato may whistle in microwave.”
for the potato fears not death
It was an excellent talk, I had a great time. And thanks for the book :)
It’s publication day!
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There are growing murmurings within the Labour intelligentsia for the adoption a New Economic Policy to ensure that the party's urban base can make peace with agrarian interests and halt festering rebellion in the countryside.
To enjoy Hobsbawm at his long nineteenth century best, you also have to read him at his Neil Kinnock’s favourite Marxist worst.
The narrative being put forward today that there is a cultural chasm between an urban Labour Party and rural Britain is a caricature. It also serves to (deliberately) overlook the history of class politics in the countryside and in the agricultural economy as well.
My article on the political economy of anti-Chinese racism is out in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review (open access).
The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇
Great image 🔽
David Proudfoot was a leading trade unionist in the 1926 general strike and miners’ lockout, when local Councils of Action exercised considerable power in Fife.
His letters from the time were later published in Militant Miners by the Scottish labour historian, Ian MacDougall.
Hobsbawm was second to none in casually dropping gems like these:
Painting of a town featuring a central church next to smoking factory chimneys
Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
I'd rather have my kid quoting this than Andrew Tate, in fairness
Deeply amused that the two male role models SOAS wanted to highlight are the Dalai Lama and Zhou Enlai
Soas languages open modules >>
