London Socialist Historians Group

London, England
Joined February 2016
London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter Index (1997-present) now available - to contribute to future issues of the Newsletter please contact @kmflett londonsocialisthistorians.bl…
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Bell is getting extreme levels of abuse this morning, simply for raising concern about this event, and flagging that no lessons have been learned about the treatment of Professor Jason Arday. Solidarity to Bell, solidarity to Jason’s family, and solidarity to every Black academic and student forced to endure this culture of racism - both online and in our institutions.
Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging. Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education. 🧵
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🚨 𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧: 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗞 🇵🇸 Israel has launched a major military operation across the occupied West Bank, with Palestinian families being forcibly displaced, homes and businesses demolished, mass arrests carried out and the entire territory placed under siege and lockdown. In Al-Khalil alone, more than 2,000 Palestinians have already been forced from their homes. Israeli forces have sealed off the city and turned Palestinian homes into military positions and interrogation centres. Benjamin Netanyahu has said “We will act to destroy this place, ⁠to change it completely,” This is collective punishment. We cannot stand by. Join Friends of Al-Aqsa for an emergency protest outside Downing Street to demand an end to Israel’s assault on the West Bank. 📍 10 Downing Street, London 📅 Monday 26 October 🕕 6:00 PM
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“Higher education in this country is at risk on a scale we have never experienced before.” Thank you to John McDonnell MP for backing our campaign and calling for the investment our universities desperately need. On 20 November, we come together to demand change. Education. It’s ours.
Higher education in this country is at risk on a scale we have never experienced before. The future of our young people is being put at risk and the potential of our economy is being jeopardised. It’s time to speak up and demand the investment needed in this jewel in the crown of our society. @ucu
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Great that Paul Robeson is being commemorated with a plaque this Sunday in Eastbourne - please share the crowdfunder widely to help support this if possible @CallMrRobeson @RobesonHousePHL @RobesonLibrary crowdfunder.co.uk/p/plaque-f…
A Paul Robeson Commemoration event and plaque unveiling will take place at the Winter Garden on 25 October. A regular performer in the Winter Garden's Floral Room as a bass baritone singer in the late 1920s and 30s, find out more about this special event: tinyurl.com/zxwpn5u8
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🚨Join the fantastic line up of speakers on the Uniting Against the Rise of the Far Right plenary at the Together Alliance summit!👇🏿 🗓️ SATURDAY 24TH OCTOBER 🎟️ TICKETS: tickettailor.com/events/tate… See you there! #Together @UKTogetherAll
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Matthew Quest offers a heartfelt memorial essay with original detail and recollections on the Pan African activist from Guyana, Eusi Kwayana (1925-2026) who passed away on 10 October. May he rest in power ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿. roape.net/2026/10/19/eusi-kw…
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📣 Blame the billionaires not our neighbours! Join the fantastic panel at this Saturday’s Together Against the Far Right summit. 🎟️ TICKETS: tickettailor.com/events/tate… See you there! #Together @UKTogetherAll
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My latest book review. An excellent account of how classical economists understood (or failed to understand) primitive accumulation and the creation of capitalism. Michael Perelman's Marxist study "The Invention of Capitalism". resolutereader.blogspot.com/…
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What a marvellous ideological category ‘sensible people’ functions as here. I can remember when back in the 1990s other asses described both Althusser and Hobsbawm as the ‘Last Marxist’.
Was Chris Wickham the last Marxist historian to be taken seriously by sensible people? (I know, there are lots of Marxist historians of slavery and colonialism...)
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🚨 NEXT WEEK 🚨 Our International Movement Against War speaker tour starts on Thursday in Birmingham, then London on Friday and Bristol on Saturday More cities and speakers right through to 29 Oct. All dates and details here. Get your tickets ASAP: stopwar.org.uk/events/
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Be there. 🔗Tickets available: togetheralliance.org.uk/orga…
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Replying to @BFI
@BFI @guardian @guardiannews @bhmuk @JJyabbas @TNBFC @KermodeMovie @BBC @BBCBreaking In 1998 Stephen Bourne changed the face of British cinema & television with his trailblazing book. Here's Stephen's interview with Zac Ntim. deadline.com/2026/10/stephen…
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Short video about my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @HurstPublishers. Took me 7 years to write. Starts in Barcelona's Plaça Catalunya, ends in Austria. Takes the reader to Aragón with Orwell's son, Gernika, the Ebro battle, the Valley of the Fallen. I wanted to understand the war by traveling through today's landscapes, the scars of violence still there, looking also how the war is remembered, dark clouds threatening today.
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