I've now signed off the proofs of my book on the antinuclear movement in Britain, which is now off to the printers. The cover now has a CND symbol added! Copies should be available in mid-October - do pre-order now.
In future, I will be using the substack, History/theory/politics, to publish longer commentaries, with this blog remaining as a record of activity and an archive of publications. So here is the first piece, on the 8th anniversary of the Brexit referendum: A Tale of Two Independence Days, 23 June 2016 and 4 July 2024.
I'm excited to be able to announce that my new book, 'The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History', is slated for publication on 14 November. The book covers the campaign in the broadest sense - from the Direct Action Committee that existed before CND was set up in 1958 to the Committee of 100… Continue reading ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History’ out later this year
Published just before 7 October, it can now be read in the light of Israel's destruction of Gaza. For the new Berlin Review, in English and with a German translation. blnreview.de/ausgaben/04-2024/martin-shaw-israels-militaerdoktrin-luttwak-shamir-idf
My new piece for Byline Times.
Full article: 'Inescapably Genocidal' — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2023.2300555
My book Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath, which provides the fullest available analysis of the role of racist anti-immigration politics, and other forms of racism, in the 2016 referendum, the Brexit crisis of 2016-19 and the Johnson government, is now open access. It provides a distinctive analysis, important correctives to myths which have been… Continue reading Racism/Brexit book now open access
I've signed this Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Mass Violence in Israel and Palestine since 7 October. — Read on contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/statement-of-scholars-7-october/
Martin Shaw 