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.
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‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History’ out later this year
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
Racism/Brexit book now open access
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
Emerging consensus among genocide scholars on Israel’s brutal war
In 2010, I wrote Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide, a pioneering argument for the relevance of 'genocide' to Israel-Palestine. Later that year, in a debate in the Journal of Genocide Research prompted by my article, the Holocaust historian Omer Bartov strongly disagreed. It is therefore particularly striking that Omer has spoken out… Continue reading Emerging consensus among genocide scholars on Israel’s brutal war
Washington Post article cites me on genocide in the Israel-Hamas war
Israel-Gaza: The Spectre of Genocide
My new article for Byline Times.
Political racism: at the heart of Tory electoral strategy & the coming right-wing realignment (my latest)
‘Rishi Sunak Continues to Use Johnson’s Brexit-Fuelled Political Racism’ – Byline Times — Read on bylinetimes.com/2023/06/14/rishi-sunak-continues-to-use-johnsons-brexit-fuelled-political-racism/
Barcelona summer school course: Ukraine and the Problems of Genocide
Professors, Power & Projection: the Case of Matthew Goodwin
My latest for Byline Times, in which I harness counter-alliteration and C. Wright Mills to get to the heart of the Goodwin project - and the real problem of powerful elites in Britain today.
Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine
I've written an extensive article on this, with the subtitle 'Radicalisation and Social Destruction", just published in the Journal of Genocide Research Ukraine forum. I intend to return to the argument as the war develops and I welcome feedback.
