Articles and Reviews
Was Clarion socialism really 'more social and cultural than political?'
This appeared in 'Boots & Spurs' The magazine of the National Clarion Cycling Club
UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
'Labour Leader and the Bolsheviks' 2003
SOCIALIST HISTORY ARTICLE: THE ORIGINAL BRITISH ULTRA-LEFT, 1917-1924
This appeared in Socialist History 44 Anti-Communism on the Left in 2014. ISBN 978 181 5. ISSN 0969 433
SOCIALIST HISTORY ARTICLE: INTERNATIONALISM, NATIONALISM AND THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. THE BRITISH LEFT AND THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1914
This appeared in Socialist History 57 British Labour and Internationalism
SHORT CHARTIST ARTICLES
Chartist is a well-established journal of democratic socialism published six times a year.
Early in 2014 I was asked by Chartist to write a short article about the First World War a century previously. The original idea was that other people would supply further articles, but as far as I am aware no one did, and in the end I contributed three pieces. Anticipating that others would write on the Left wing opposition to the war, the No Conscription Fellowship, the Union of Democratic Control and other more obvious topics I decided to leave these to them and tackle less well-known aspects of the Left's experience of the war. Doing these articles is what gave me the idea for Drums of Armageddon
THE ILP AND THE LIVING WAGE
CHARTISM OLD AND NEW
This appeared in Chartist 258, September/October 2012.
SOCIALIST STRUGGLES WITH THE 'GREAT' WAR
This appeared in Chartist 266 in January/February 2014
ARMAGEDDON AS A PEOPLE'S WAR?
This appeared in Chartist 268 in May/June 2014
THE PRO-WAR SOCIALIST PATRIOTS
This appeared in Chartist 271 in November/December 2014
DEMOCRATIC FAULTLINES IN SOVIETS
This appeared in Chartist 288 in September/October 2017
WORKING CLASS DEMOCRACY
This appeared in Chartist 292 in May/June 2018
IS THE LEFT OPPOSED TO POLITICS?
This appeared in Chartist 296 in January/February 2019
CHARTIST HERITAGE
This appeared in Chartist 298 in May/June 2019
1945 PROMISE OF A NEW DAY
This appeared in Chartist 305 in July/August 2020
Review ESSAYS
GIDON COHEN, THE FAILURE OF A DREAM. THE INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY FROM DISAFFILIATION TO WORLD WAR II
The Independent Labour Party from Disaffiliation to World War II, Taurus, 2007
LABOUR/LE TRAVAIL, 2009
My review essay "The Rise and Fall of New Labour? A Social Democracy for 21st Century Britain" which discusses Stephen Meredith's Labours Old and New. The Parliamentary Right of the British Labour Party 1970-79 and Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World. British Trade Unions Under New Labour appeared in Labour/Le Travail, (Journal of Canadian Labour Studies, 64 Fall/Automne 2009
DENNIS PILON, WRESTLING WITH DEMOCRACY. VOTING SYSTEMS AS POLITICS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WEST
Labour/Le Travail, 2013