Category: Publications
The Silence of Oppression
Hugh Brody and Merilyn Moos discuss how the experiences of imperialism and of exile from Nazism generate and rely on silences in both personal and political realms.
Hugh Brody’s books include Living Arctic, Maps And Dreams,The Other Side of Eden and Landscapes of Silence; his films include Nineteen Nineteen, England’s Henry Moore and Tracks Across Sand.
Read on ... Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises
23 February 2023 on-line public meeting
Speaker: Professor Gregory Claeys
Our talk will be based on Greg’s latest book, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism. (Princeton University Press, 2022), which examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today’s thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of environmental catastrophe. Read on ...
Newsletter
New Year 2023 Volume 12 issue 1
Articles on:
- The biggest strike wave for a generation
- Bermondsey Revolution by John Whelan
- Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
- A Plaque for C.L.R. James in Southwick
- Harold Wilson by Nick Thomas-Symonds
- Four meetings
- Riding Two Horses: Labour in Europe – Glyn Ford
- Zionism During the Holocaust – Tony Greenstein
- The Drax Family Dynasty & the Business of Slavery – Steve Cushion
- Utopianism for a Dying Planet – Gregory Claeys
- Stalin, Passage to Revolution by Ronald Suny
- Living with Shadows by Merilyn Moos
- Little River by Velma McClymont
- Horatio Bottomley and the Far Right before Fascism by David Renton
- Horatio Bottomley and Modern Politics
- THE JULIAN ASSANGE HUMAN CHAIN
- Socialism in the English-speaking Caribbean
UNION BREAD
BAGELS, PLATZELS AND CHOLLAH: THE STORY OF THE LONDON JEWISH BAKERS’ UNION
Jewish Socialists’ Group and Socialist History Society
by LARRY WAYNE
UNION BREAD is a story both of division and of solidarity. There were bitter divisions between Jewish and non-Jewish Bakers over the issue of Sunday baking, and between the journeymen and the masters. Read on ...