Copies of my new book, The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, have arrived at the publishers and I'm waiting for them to reach me. Meanwhile, Agenda Publishing have announced 30 per cent off for paperbacks ordered via their website (in the UK and Europe only, I'm afraid). Use the code EM30 at the checkout.
BOOK DISCUSSION: ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ – Martin Shaw in conversation with Kate Hudson – Housmans Bookshop, 12 November — Read on housmans.com/event/book-discussion-the-campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament-martin-shaw-in-conversation-with-kate-hudson/ Or order online from your usual bookseller
The latest on my Substack.
I've done a lengthy interview with Thomas Karat in which I explain my views on Palestine and Israel. I expand on the question I put to Israeli historian Benny Morris in the Mehdi Hasan programme.
I reflected from my history of the campaign against nuclear weapons on how its campaigning and thinking was largely separated from concerns about "genocide", even in EP Thompson's idea of "exterminism". My latest.
‘You do not respond to genocide with gestures; you do not continue to treat a state that is suspected of committing genocide as an ally; and cancelling a number of export licences does not cancel Britain’s complicity’ - my take in Byline Times
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.
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