Socialist History Public Zoom Meeting
Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 7pm
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The Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist
I will talk about the subject of my book, my father, the radical journalist Claud Cockburn, who fought successfully against the political and media establishment. To Graham Greene, he was the greatest journalist of the twentieth century. He resigned from The Times in 1932 to start The Week, an anti-Nazi and anti-establishment newsletter with an influence out of all proportion to its circulation. British officials were horrified by the scoops he published. These included stories on everything from the political influence of German appeasers – the Cliveden Set – in the British elite to the previously suppressed news of Edward VIII’s abdication. I will talk abut his life-long guerrilla campaign against the powerful on behalf of the powerless and how he believed such resistance should be successfully conducted.

Patrick Cockburn is a special correspondent for the i newspaper who worked previously for The Independent, London Review of Books and Financial Times. He has been a correspondent bases in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Moscow and Washington,and has written three books on Iraq, three on recent Middle East wars, as well as a memoir, The Broken Boy, and, with his son, a book on schizophrenia, Henry’s Demons. He has won many awards, including the Martha Gellhorn prize, the James Cameron prize in 2006, the Orwell prize for Journalism as well as being named as Foreign Affairs Journalist and Foreign Reporter of the Year.