‘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
Antinuclear movement book: copies by mid-October
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.
New interview on the history and meaning of genocide
Video clip of my question to Benny Morris in Mehdi Hasan’s Head to Head
My substack launched with reflections on the silences of the UK election
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.
‘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
My review of Luttwak & Shamir’s book on the Israel Defence Forces
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
The International Court of Justice on Gaza: ‘Good, but Not Good Enough’
My new piece for Byline Times.
Inescapably Genocidal: my article opens new open-access Journal of Genocide Research forum on Gaza
Full article: 'Inescapably Genocidal' — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2023.2300555
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
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