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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 Salon9 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 Childhood1 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     The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836-1909, Hardback ISBN: 9781849041201 £25.00 (UK) $45 (US)(full page) 'a major, well-written, and closely research contribution to the study of nineteenth century British colonialism'   Geographical, Nov 2011 'James Heartfield has grasped the nettle to give us a cogent, elegantly written overview of the society and its history to 1909',   Journal of Pacific History, Dec 2012 'a compelling book, rich in historical detail',    Aboriginal History  Vol 36, 2012 'Heartfield's book is set to become a foundational text', according to  Settler Colonial Studies  Douglas Lorimer in   Victorian Studies Volume 56, Number 3, Spring 2014  Caroline Shaw in  The Journal of Human Rights 06 Jan 2015   Critical Muslim, March 2013 Order it from   Hurst Books or from   Columbia University Press.  Also available from:   Amazon UK <>   Amazon US <>   Borders Aus <>   Amazon CA     

  

   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 '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 PayPal  

       

   Read  '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  by Paypal  

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       James Heartfield on the 'creative industries':  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   £4, inc. postage, by Paypal