On the Grenfell Tower fire, for Spiked
26 June: Explaining the cladding fad
15 June: Victims of the Urban Renaissance
27 June, talking about democracy, with Catherine Liu
25 May 2017, Book launch - Equal Opportunities Revolution
22 March, a talk at the Liverpool Salon
10 Feb., On the Green Belt
25 Jan 'When is it ok to punch a fascist?'
9 Jan 2017, 'We're Doomed!' on climate alarmism
9 Dec. review of Josie Appleton's Officious
1 Nov On the European Left
4 Oct They Shall Not Pass: the Battle of Cable Street 80 years on
23 Aug Corbyn’s right, it’s time to disband NATO
24 June, interviewed in Pravda24 June, Workers reject EU, for New Geography
21 June, The European Union has failed, Sheffield History Matters
27 April, for a 100-mile wide London
1 April, review of the film High Rise
5 Feb, reviewing David Aaronovitch's Party Animals
19 Jan, on Council Estates and Housing Bill
2016
25 Nov, Liam O'Ruairc reviews Who's Afraid...
25 Nov, 'Osbourne is right...' for Sp!ked
11 Nov, You Can't reform the EU, for Sp!ked
3 Nov., London book launch, with Kevin Rooney
18 Oct, debating Paul Bew at Battle of Ideas
14 Oct, Irish World on Who's Afraid...
12 October, No, the Suffragettes were not Racist
26 Sept., My book The Aborigines' Protection Society, is 'a stellar job', says the Human Rights Review.
11 June, panel for Bow Arts, and quoted in the Sun
27 May, on slavery, for Worldwrite
2 May, on the Stalinist legacy, for Socialist Project
28 April, on Gentrification in Brixton, and also on council housing
8 April, a talk on CLR James and WWII
30 March, we need 260,000 new homes a year, but the government won't build them
24 March, obituary of Lee Kuan Yew
Reviews of The Aborigines' Protection Society in Victorian Studies and The Journal of Human Rights
9 Jan, 2015, obituary for Ulrich Beck
A review of The Aborigines' Protection Society in Critical Muslim, March 2013
10 Dec, 'The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society', a talk for the history seminar series at Northumbria University
27 Sept, 'What Happened to Agency?' a talk for the Leeds Salon
17 July, How the Tories ignited the paedophile panic
9 July, The sex ring at the heart of the British establishment
19 June, Operation Lollipop - Trolls v Twitter feminists
12 June, On Anti-Homeless Spikes
2 June, a Review of Comics Unmasked at the British Library
20 May, Why no New House-building?
9 May, Reviewing Richard Seymour's book Against Austerity
4 April, Talking about Tony Cliff's contribution, with Tarek Shalaby and Thomas Willis, Platypus Convention, Chicago
31 March 2014 - Leeds Salon
9 March, I am on the front cover of Art Monthly
1 March Interviewed for Dust magazine
2 Feb., The Debate over Intersectionality
31 Jan., Goodbye Chauvinism, on WWI for Review 31
29 Jan. 2014 Further Adventures in Intersectionality on the left's nuttiness
31 Dec., Bash Street Trots - the SWP splitters
27 Nov., Intersectional? Or just Sectarian - an essay
25 Nov.,Why greens love high fuel bills
19 Nov., Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 150 years on for Spiked
13 Nov. My adventures in Liverpool
31 Oct., I am interviewed by Gulf Times on Unpatriotic History...
21 Oct., reviewing Chandler's Freedom vs Necessity in IR
8 Oct., The Energy Crisis, for Spiked
2 Oct., Me and Ian Parker debate Freud and Childhood
1 Oct. Unpatriotic History... reviewed by Ian Birchall for the London Socialist Historians
30 Aug., EU & End of Politics reviewed in Spiked
17 July, Time to face the housing crisis in Spiked
11 July, On domestic violence, in Spiked
1 July, reviewed in Socialist Standard
Previous entries
Heartfield in the news ... and on the blogs
Other works
‘an excellent book which narrates for the first time, and in fine-grain detail, the works, ideals, tensions and shifts of the Anti-Slavery Society. Enthusiastically recommended.’ — Robbie Shilliam, Reader in International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
‘Heartfield’s important and meticulously-documented account shows clearly how the intertwining of ideals and interests in the original abolitionist movement produced the convergence of liberal anti-slavery and British imperialism in the following century.’ — Nicholas Draper, University College London
For a short time only, discounted at £29.99
Amazon UK, for Kindle, Amazon US, or buy it now, for £11.99
'James Heartfield’s groundbreaking new book' Daniel Ben-Ami £15.99, inc. postage, by PayPal
Amazon UK
Let's Build!
Why we need five million homes in the next 10 years
is published by Audacity on 23 September 2006
£17.50, including postage, via PayPal
Articles on Let's Build
Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con Spiked, 7 April '08
Farewell to the City a paper to the Rural Futures Conference, published in Spiked 4 April 2006...also available in Italian
Interdependent we stand, divided we fall,
'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of sustainability' in Rising East online, January 2006
'Londonostalgia', Blueprint, September 2004.
Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway?
Spiked 6 January 2006
City, suburbs and snobs
Spiked 30 November 2005
The government must stop finding reasons not to build new homes Guardian 21 February 2005
Confusing signals in the housing debate and New communities, same old problems, Times Educational Supplement, 14 January 2005
All talk and no bricks, Spiked, 26 January 2005
Concrete over the Countryside, Blueprint, January 2002
'a vital read for anyone trying to get to grips with the nature of the fundamental social changes in the UK' Joanna Williams.
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'A book that I would nominate for Isaac Deutscher Prize of 2013' Louis Proyect
'Strong stuff, and in sharp contrast with today’s best-selling histories', Patrick West
'Excellent', Pat Mills
'highly recommended as a useful corrective to World War Two history' Socialist Standard
'a trenchant and sustained demolition of the People’s War mythology' Neil Davenport, Sp!ked
'a compelling and fascinating analysis, demolishing conventional accounts of the War' Anti-Capitalist Initiative
Available now from Amazon UK <> Amazon US
Watch James Heartfield talking on the history of the war
Related articles:
WORLD WAR AS CLASS WAR by James Heartfield, for Mute. Another copy. In Spanish: La Guerra Mondial como Guerra des clases
'The Battle of the Books', at Spiked-online
'Those trying to get an intellectual handle on our dumbed-down society could start with James Heartfield's The 'Death of the Subject' Explained' New Statesman
£15.00 by PayPalRead 'Postmodernism and the Subject', from the Chapter One, and Chapter 6, 'Algeria and the Defeat of French Humanism'
'This absolutely fascinating book', Raymond Tallis
'Striking and original', Terry Eagleton
Order The 'Death of the Subject' Explained
Review in Spiked-online
GREEN CAPITALISM: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance
by James Heartfield,
£7.50, plus £1 p&p
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Read THE CREATIVITY GAP
James Heartfield on the 'creative industries':
£7.50 by Paypal
Gordon Brown at NESTA for Mute and Spiked;
Creative London for Rising East Online;Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell at NESTA;
Cox Report: creative accounting for Spiked;
Quoted in Larry Elliott's Better design requires better Products in the Guardian;
'Winning the European Capital of Culture bid will not re-build Liverpool's industry' Liverpool Daily Post; Chris Smith's Creative Accounting for the Guardian
On Channel 4 News, 26 Nov. 2006
BRITISH WORKERS & THE US CIVIL WAR
How Karl Marx and the Lancashire weavers jouned Abraham Lincoln's fight against slavery 150 years ago
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