Kmflett's Blog

Monday May 20th 5.30pm on Zoom

Benjamin Schoendorff The Socialist Alternatives experiment: an 1980s attempt to search for a new revolutionary subject

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https://www.history.ac.uk/events/socialist-alternatives-experiment-1980s-attempt-search-a-new-revolutionary-subject

Monday June 3rd 5.30pm on Zoom

Colm Murphy. The forgotten rival of Marxism Today: The British Labour Party’s New Socialist and the business of political culture in the late Twentieth Century

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https://www.history.ac.uk/events/forgotten-rival-marxism-today-british-labour-partys-new-socialist-and-business-political

The 1980s were perhaps a key time for glossy socialist magazine, and ones that could be found not just on the traditional street corners but in mainstream newsagents. Marxism Today is certainly the best known but the Labour Party launched New Socialist, while a third Living Marxism was perhaps the most controversial of the lot.

In a short summer seminar series Colm Murphy looks at the New Socialist. As a contrast the Editor of Socialist Alternatives Benjamin Schoendorff looks at what the project was trying to achieve and reflects on the input of its most well known contributor, Keir Starmer