My father, Roy Shaw, was a leading figure in adult education and arts policy in the late 20th Century. He didn’t write a major book, but in numerous articles and lectures— many written while he held major policy roles—he laid out a distinctive egalitarian approach to education and the arts. Alongside writers like Raymond Williams and… Continue reading A celebration of Roy Shaw, with my article on his ideas
On Mass Politics and Direct Action | History Workshop — Read on http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-solidarity/on-mass-politics-and-direct-action/
My new article explains what Burnham and Miliband should really be doing about Israel—breaking the UK’s alliance with the genocidal state, not pleading with it to change course; sanctioning the state, not just the settlers and individual ministers. After nearly three years of complicity, ‘The UK must belatedly fulfil its duty to prevent genocide and… Continue reading What Burnham should really be doing about Israel
Part of my podcast interview with Hanno Hauenstein has been translated into German and published by ND.
My new open-access article in Genocide Studies and Prevention examines the neglected question of OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE - from Raphael Lemkin’s Axis Rule in Occupied Europe to contemporary Palestine. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been identified through its extreme destructiveness, but it is now being consolidated through a new occupation—while Israel’s longstanding occupation of the… Continue reading Occupation and Genocide: a new analysis
My new podcast with Nadim on @99zueins covers why we are in a "new age of genocide", the relationships of war and genocide, the "structure of genocide" in the long view of Palestine, and my views on Omer Bartov's new book on Israel and Dirk Moses' The Problems of Genocide--and much more, especially Gaza. https://youtu.be/5OA6MrAKRGY
I talked to German journalist Hanno Hauenstein about colonial genocide, resistance and subaltern genocide, how resistance conjures genocidal fantasies among the colonisers, denial and repression, institutionalised hypocrisy in geopolitics, the importance (and limits) of international law, the political role of the genocide idea, and why the academic study of mass atrocity needs to re-emphasise “genocide”.… Continue reading A wide ranging interview on genocide and Gaza
Gaza is the sharpest edge of Starmer’s domestic as well as international legacy — Read on bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/why-andy-burnham-must-break-with-israel/
Watch here: https://youtu.be/vy6eZRTK2m4
