lives; running

Friends may have seen the controversy simmering on the pages of Jacobin about the politics of Victor Serge.

The piece that follows comes from a talk I gave back in the spring at the Marx is’ Muss conference in Berlin.

After my illness last year, I didn’t think I would ever return to work.

When you write the history of the last hundred years, there’s always a source if you just dig deep enough.

The second and concluding part of my list the best anti-fascist novels published in Britain over the last century.

The following list excludes short stories, translations, autobiographies with no meaningful content as fiction, books with an enemy which was a bit like fascism but not fascism really, stories set in fascist Italy or Nazi Germany which don’t take that set…

This piece returns to an argument I’ve made elsewhere, that fascism is “a specific form of reactionary mass politics”.

In May 1641 Parliament killed one of King Charles I’s favourites, the Earl of Stafford; later the same month they abolished the Court of Star Chamber.

The inspiration for this talk was Robert Chapman’s idea of health fascism, and their argument that the far right grows by idealising a lost past of individual and collective health.

Three experiences inform this piece of writing: words Mike Kidron told an interviewer in 1964 (“not Trotskyist but Trotskyist-derived”), a piece a friend of mine Colin wrote last year (“how did these revolutionary socialists become so similar to the Stali…

In September, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor will be bringing out the above, this year’s big book on fascism.