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'Mouthpiece of the economically informed left in Britain' Sebastian Olma
'One of the most important commentators on design' Nick Bell
Writer and lecturer James Heartfield lives in north London with his wife and two daughters
e-mail james@heartfield.org
Diary 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 Pravda 24 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 Heartfields 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. On Amazon UK, US ZER0 Books 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 |
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