Uncovered here are the lies, the sackings, the betrayals, the racist insults, the brush with criminality, that should have got Boris Johnson disbarred from ever being considered for high office. Instead, on the back of Brexit Britain, he reached the dizzy heights of the Foreign Office, with his eyes still set on one day being prime minister.
Heathcote Williams is a poet, playwright, essayist, lyricist, actor, artist, magician, political agitator … and much else besides.
Brexit Boris is now in its third edition and on special offer at £8 post free.
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]]>An attempt to provide a Marxist analysis of the Far Right in the US and Europe and to argue that it represents a modern form of ‘creeping fascism’.
It was one of those moments when the world changed. Like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the bombing of the Twin Towers in 2001, and the financial crash of 2008, the election of Donald Trump as US president in November 2016 sent shock-waves across the globe.
Commentators struggled for words. A billionaire tax-dodger, a ranting racist, a misogynist and self-confessed abuser of women, a bully who taunts the disabled and the bereaved, a serial liar, a man proud of his bigotry, his hatred, his contempt for most of humanity, this man had just been elected to the most powerful political position on the planet. Sixty-three million Americans had voted for a political psychopath.
The election of Trump is the most significant breakthrough so far in the advance of a global movement. Trump, anticipating victory on the eve of his election, bragged it would be ‘Brexit plus, plus, plus’.
He was referring to the victory of the Leave campaign in the British EU referendum. Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, and other right-wing politicians, backed by the gutter press, had secured a narrow win on the basis of vacuous ‘take back control’ rhetoric and vicious anti-immigrant racism.
Creeping Fascism: Brexit, Trump, and the Rise of the Far Right is an attempt to provide a Marxist analysis of the Far Right in the United States and Europe and to argue that it represents a modern form of ‘creeping fascism’.
Creeping Fascism: Brexit, Trump, and the Rise of the Far Right is published by Public Reading Rooms.
Price: £12
Free Movement and Beyond: Agenda Setting for Brexit Britain is an edited collection that draws together the current thinking of many of Britain’s most prominent ‘critical Remainers’ – those who argued to remain within the European Union while seeking its democratic and progressive transformation.
Seeking to contribute to the policy agenda for the Brexit process, the contributors centrally address the controversial issue of free movement of people, defending it as central to Britain’s economic success and as an advance for the working class across Europe; myths that blame migration for economic woes are debunked and the racism that such myths give rise to is condemned.
Policy proposals and principles are outlined for democracy, economics, trade policy, security policy, the environment and workers’ rights.
Editor: Kate Hudson | Contributors: Diane Abbott MP, Yanis Varoufakis / Caroline Lucas MP / Mary Kaldor / Marina Prentoulis / Andrew Burgin / Luke Cooper / Zoe Gardner / Laleh Khalili / Nick Dearden / Tom O’Leary / Neil Faulkner
Price: £9.95
“Scrapping Trident is an indivisible part of Labour’s forward march. The heated debate in Labour’s ranks is not reflected in public opinion. Talk to your next door neighbour, your mates in the pub or club, chat to that person sitting on the bus next to you. You’ll find little appetite for nuclear weapons.
Opinion has changed. Nuclear disarmament is mainstream. The problem is one of ‘operationalising’ those sentiments, putting pressure on politicians to understand and honour them.”
So says Carol Turner, longstanding Labour party member and CND activist, author of Corbyn and Trident: Labour’s continuing controversy. Highly topical, this book looks at the challenges facing Labour’s anti-Trident leader Jeremy Corbyn as he steers his party through a difficult defence policy debate where the question of nuclear weapons has again raised its controversial head.
Turner situates Corbyn’s dilemmas in the context of Labour’s longstanding and continuing controversy over Britain’s nuclear weapons possession – from the days of the first atmospheric tests, through Polaris and Chevaline to Trident and its replacement. The consistent theme is the struggle within the party – sometimes successful – to secure an anti-nuclear position.
“Drawing on interviews with big labour movement players of the last decades, Carol Turner has produced a fascinating account of the turbulent debates within the Labour Party over this most crucial of questions – and the impact of a CND vice-president in Labour’s top spot.”
Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Transform #2 | £7.50 post free
Transform #1, published in May 2017, sold out its first print run very quickly. See Transform founding statement and editorial board here…
Transform: Issue #2 | Contents
Right-wing forces have frequently emerged stronger from the financial crisis of 2008, but left and progressive forces have also challenged for power, and unfolding political developments and new mobilisations in Britain and elsewhere demonstrate that the right is being fought and can be defeated.
This issue of Transform addresses some of these questions: looking at the UK 2017 general election outcome and what the Labour surge means; exploring the impact of Trump’s onslaught on women; closer investigation of the practice of left parties and movements in Germany and Poland; thoughts on how to drive forward a socialist agenda; and a powerful memoire of the miners’ strike and its transformative legacy.
Our pages are open to explore the immense political challenges that we face. Please get in touch if you would like to contribute: contact [email protected].
Editorial
Kate Hudson
Winter and Spring: the extraordinary 2017 Labour surge
Michael Wongsam
The Continuing War against Women in the US
Susan Pashkoff
Germany’s Die Linke in times of polarization
Mark Bergfeld and Leandros Fischer
The History and Future of the Polish Left
Czesław Kulesza and Gavin Rae
Thatcher and the Miners: remembering the 1984 strike
Jim Gibson
Where We Are and Where We Could Be: transitional demands and actions
Len Arthur
Review | Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
Joseph Healy