{"id":1179,"date":"2021-04-29T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2025-01-04T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:53:31","slug":"red-letters-the-work-and-history-of-the-communist-party-literature-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Red Letters: Life and Death of a Small Radical Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First shown <strong>2pm Saturday 12 June<\/strong><br \/>\nOnline talk hosted by the Socialist History Society<br \/>\nSpeaker <strong>David Margolies<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDUASPJwV4c?start=8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAbout the speaker:<br \/>\n<strong>David Margolies<\/strong>\u00a0was a member of the collective responsible for the journal <i>Red Letters<\/i>, published from 1976 to 1991<\/p>\n<p>He is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London.<\/p>\n<p>David \u00a0has written widely on British Marxist cultural criticism including editing\u00a0<i>Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell<\/i>\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0<i>Writing the Revolution: Cultural Criticism from Left Review\u00a0<\/i>(1988) and also on English Renaissance literature, including\u00a0<i>Novel and Society in Elizabethan England\u00a0<\/i>(1985),\u00a0<i>Monsters of the Deep: Social Dissolution in Shakespeare&#8217;s Tragedies<\/i>\u00a0(1992) and\u00a0<i>Shakespeare&#8217;s Irrational Endings: The Problem Plays\u00a0<\/i>(2012)<\/p>\n<p>He has lectured and taught at the University of Essex, State University of New York and Morgan State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First shown 2pm Saturday 12 June Online talk hosted by the Socialist History Society Speaker David Margolies About the speaker: David Margolies\u00a0was a member of the collective responsible for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-shs-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}