- Flinders University of South Australia, Law School, Department Memberadd
- Race and Racism, Punk Culture, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Labour history, Dada, Zine culture, and 157 moreRace relations, History of the Body, Counter terrorism, Border Security, Criminology, History of Labour Migration, Labour, Australian History, Legal History, Post-Marxism, Marxist theory, Sociology of Migration, Criminal Justice, Postcolonial Studies, Migration History, Labor Organizations, History of Political Parties, British Empire, Black British History, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Social Movements (Political Science), British Politics, Australian Politics, Youth Subcultures, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Immigration Law, Marxism, History, 20th Century, Antonio Negri, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Human Traffikcing, Victims of Trafficking, Sex Work, Left Book Club, Lenin, W.I., British Labour Movement, Working-Class History, Communist Secret Police, Antonio Gramsci, Biopolitics, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Communist Party of Great Britain, History of Political Violence, Red Army Faction, Terrorism, Rave Culture, European History, British History, Modern British History, History of Sexuality, Gender Studies, History of Decolonization, Subaltern Studies, Globalization, Critical Theory, Law, Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony, Stuart Hall, Criminal Justice History, Policing History, History from Below, Resistance (Social), Surveillance Studies, Empires, Britishness, Colonial Administration, Miscegentation, Essentialism, Feminist Theory, Everyday Racism, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, 2011 English riots, Mobs, Riots, and Revolutionary Crowds, London Riots, Toxteth Riots, Maoism, Marxism-Leninism, Urban riots in london, Stalin and Stalinism, Migration Studies, Multiculturalism, Youth crime, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Critical Criminology, Policing Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Anti-Fascism, Anarchism, Black Power, Black Power Movement, Social Movements (History), Trade Union Militancy, Social class struggles, Communist International, Communist Parties, History of Communism, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Fanzines, DIY culture, Zines, Riot Grrrl, Counter Culture, Youth Culture, Social Movements, Gilles Deleuze, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Transnational History, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, British Fascism, Fascist propaganda, Colonialism, Identity politics, Eric Hobsbawm, Labor History and Studies, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic Studies, Minority Studies, Sociology of Law, Historical Sociology, Political Violence, Labour Party (UK), History of the British Labour Party, Collective Bargaining (Industrial And Labor Relations), Labour Studies, Law and Society, AUSTRALIAN LABOUR AND FEMINIST HISTORY, Women's Liberation Movement (UK), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism, Political Violence and Terrorism, Bodies and Culture, Anthropology of the Body, Biopower and Biopolitics, Imperialism, Empire, Youth Justice, Children's Rights, Post-Colonialism, Direct Action, Hardcore punk, Post-punk, Punk Studies, Thatcherism, New Labour, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Labourism, Social protests, Social movements and revolution, Frankfurt School, History of Venereal Disease, Communist Party of Australia, International communism, History of Comintern, Refugee Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Antiapartheid Movementsedit
- Evan Smith is a Research Fellow in History in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders Univers... moreEvan Smith is a Research Fellow in History in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. He has also previously worked for the Australian Institute of Criminology, the South Australian Office of Crime Statistics and Research and the Australian Taxation Office.edit
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Social Movements, Labour Party (UK), Marxism, and 51 moreBritish History, Social Movement, British Politics, Labour history, Politics, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Social movements and revolution, New Left, Socialism, British and Irish History, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Labor unions, Radical Democracy, New Left and the 1960s, Student movements, Irish Republicanism, Trade unions, 20th century British political history, History of Communism, Welsh Nationalism, Radical history, Trade Union History, History of Marxist Thought, New Left Review, British Politics since 1945, History of the British Labour Party, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Communist Party of Great Britain, History of Students Movements, British Labour Party, Communist Parties, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmarment (CND), Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism, Labourism, Marxist history, Students Movements, History of the Left, Trade Union and Labour History -UK, History of European Socialism and Communism, Communism and national question, Militant, The Angry Brigade, Left Wing Parties, History of Western Communist Parties, Social and Labour History, New Left in the 1960s, and Revolutionary Communist Party
British Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organisations to undertake serious... more
British Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organisations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society. The book examines the balancing act that the Communist Party negotiated in its anti-racist work, between making appeals to the labour movement to get involved in the fight against racism and working with Britain's ethnic minority communities, who often felt let down by the trade unions and the Labour Party. Transitioning from a class-based outlook to an embrace of the new social movements of the 1960s–70s, the CPGB played an important role in the anti-racist struggle, but by the 1980s, it was eclipsed by more radical and diverse activist organisations. This book will be of interest to readers of British left-wing history and politics, as well as those interested in the history of British race relations, including academics, postgraduate students and activists.
Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Ethnic Studies, Marxism, British History, and 41 morePostcolonial Studies, Immigration, Social Movement, British Politics, Revolutions, Labour history, Race and Ethnicity, Politics, Socialisms, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, Communism, Modern British History, Immigration History, Labour Studies, Postcolonial Theory, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Social movements and revolution, Socialism, British and Irish History, Ethnicity, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, New social movements, Migrant workers, Race, History of Communism, British Politics since 1945, Thatcherism, Labour Movements, Communist Party of Great Britain, Riots, Communist Parties, Antifascism, British Labour Movement, Modern British Political History, Antiracism, Inner City Youth, Marxist History, Philosophy and Theory, Postcolonialism, British Marxism, and 1981 UK riots
The far left in Australia had significant effects on post-war politics, culture and society. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) ended World War II with some 20,000 members, and despite the harsh and vitriolic Cold War climate of the... more
The far left in Australia had significant effects on post-war politics, culture and society. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) ended World War II with some 20,000 members, and despite the harsh and vitriolic Cold War climate of the 1950s, seeded or provided impetus for the re-emergence of other movements. Radicals subscribing to ideologies beyond the Soviet orbit – Maoists, Trotskyists, anarchists and others – also created parties and organisations and led movements. All of these different far left parties and movements changed and shifted during time, responding to one political crisis or another, but they remained steadfastly devoted to a better world.
This collection, bringing together 14 chapters from leading and emerging figures in the Australian and international historical profession, for the first time charts some of these significant moments and interventions, revealing the Australian far left’s often forgotten contribution to the nation’s history.
This collection, bringing together 14 chapters from leading and emerging figures in the Australian and international historical profession, for the first time charts some of these significant moments and interventions, revealing the Australian far left’s often forgotten contribution to the nation’s history.
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"Against the Grain" is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together leading experts on British... more
"Against the Grain" is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together leading experts on British left-wing politics to examine issues of class, race and gender from 1956 to the present day. The essays collected here are designed to highlight the impact made by the far left on British politics and society. Though the predicted revolution did not come, organisations such as the International Socialists, the International Marxist Group and Militant became household names in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken as a whole, the collection demonstrates the extent to which the far left has weaved its influence into the political fabric of Britain.
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Social Movements, Marxism, British History, and 50 moreSocial Movement, British Politics, Anarchism, Labour history, Politics, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Socialisms, Anarchist Studies, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Social Activism, History of Anarchism, Social Movements (Political Science), Social movements and revolution, Labor History and Studies, New Left, Socialism, Marxism (Political Science), British and Irish History, Radical Democracy, New Left and the 1960s, Activism, Libertarian socialism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, Youth activism, Labor Movements, 20th century British political history, History of Communism, Working-Class History, Left Wing Extremism, British political history, Left-wing Radicalism, British Politics since 1945, Labour Movements, Communist Party of Great Britain, British Far Left, Anarcho-communism, Far Left, Theories of Socialism, Women's Liberation Movement (UK), Revolutionaries, British Labour Movement, European Left-wing Politics, Anti Fascism, Gay Rights Movement, Left Wing Parties, UK Far Left, and History of Western Communist Parties
"Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control" provides the most detailed account of the virginity testing controversy in the late 1970s, and demonstrates that this abusive practice, which was endured by South Asian women for... more
"Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control" provides the most detailed account of the virginity testing controversy in the late 1970s, and demonstrates that this abusive practice, which was endured by South Asian women for more than a decade, was part of a wider culture of mistreatment and discrimination that occurred within the immigration system authorized by the state. Using recently opened government documents, Smith and Marmo offer a unique insight into this matter and uncover the extent to which these women were scrutinized, interrogated and subject to physical examination at the border. Combining cutting-edge criminological theory and historical research, this book proposes that the contemporary British immigration control system should be viewed as an attempt to replicate colonial hierarchies upon migrants in the post-imperial era. For this reason, the abuses of human rights at the border became a secondary issue to the need of the post-imperial British nation-state to enforce strict immigration controls.
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Criminology, Law, Gender Studies, and 46 moreSex and Gender, Women's Studies, Women's History, Gender History, British History, Border Studies, Postcolonial Studies, State crime, Contemporary History, Immigration, Immigration Studies, British Politics, Migration, Gender and Sexuality, Immigration Law, Politics, Colonialism, Gender, The Body, Critical Criminology, Modern British History, Immigration And Integration In Europe, Giorgio Agamben, International Migration, Michel Foucault, British Empire, Immigration History, European Immigration and Asylum Law, Postcolonial Theory, Sociology of the Body, Migration Studies, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Biopolitics, Sociology of Migration, Transnational migration, British Imperialism, International Migration and Immigration Policy, Women and Gender Studies, State of exception, Biopower and Biopolitics, British Politics since 1945, State Crimes, Ideology of Virginity, Imperial and post-imperial narratives, Immigration Status & Nationality, and South Asian Women's Studies
This collection presents essays by emerging and established historians from Australia, New Zealand and Europe, arising from the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians, organised by Flinders... more
This collection presents essays by emerging and established historians from Australia, New Zealand and Europe, arising from the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians, organised by Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, in July 2009.
The collection centres around the theme of Europe’s expansions and contractions that have occurred over the last five centuries and the profound way in which the idea of ‘Europe’ has shaped the globe. The collection spans a wide range of topics within this overall theme, with essays focusing on militarism in inter-war Germany, the Jewish diaspora, Australia’s migrant communities, Eastern European national identities, the shifting and lingering concept of European ‘civilisation’ and history, anthropology, post-colonialism and Marxism, and comparative empires.
The collection demonstrates that detailed case studies, often categorised by periodisation, regionalism and theme, can be weaved together to present a challenging and thought-provoking idea of what European history can look like in the twenty-first century.
INTRODUCTION ONLINE FOR DOWNLOAD
LIST OF CHAPTERS:
1. Introduction - Evan Smith
2. The Reichwehr's Anti-Pacifist Campaign in the Final Years of the Weimar Republic - Steven Welch
3. Hindenburg, Hitler and Heusinger: A Fresh Look at German Military Policy, 1919-1955 - Juergen Foerster
4. The Fischer Controversy Revisited - John A. Moses
5. 'Privileged' Jews, Holocaust Representation and the 'Limits' of Judgment: The Case of Raul Hilberg - Adam Brown
6. In Search of Fritz Philippsborn: The Double Diaspora of a Jewish German - John Milfull
7. Blurred Borders: German Language Newspapers and Deutschtum in Australia- Rebecca Vonhoff
8. Italians Abroad: Critical Factors in the Development of Italian National Identity - Karen Agutter
9. Migration Generated Expansion of European Influence and the Role of Croatian Diaspora - Walter F. Lalich
10. Cigars as Symbols of Hungarian Patriotism: The Economic Origins of Cultural Nationalism - Alexander Maxwell
11. 'Our Faithfully Kept, Age-Old Inheritors': Transylvanian Saxon Folk Customs, Particularism and German Nationalism Between the Wars - Sacha E. Davis
12. 'The Dirtiest... Most Insignificant and Unpleasant Branch of Military Operations': Warfare and Civilisation in the Political Thought of Adam Ferguson - Bruce Buchan
13. The New Woman at Home and Abroad: Fiction, Female Identity and the British Empre - Sharon Crozier-de Rosa
14. The Anthropologist as Cold Warrior: The Interesting Times of Frederick Rose - Peter Monteath
15. 'Back to the USSR': Frederick Rose, the 'Stalin Criticism' and Anthropological Criticism During the Cold War - Valerie Munt
16. Bridging the Gap: The British Communist Party and the Limits of the State in Tackling Racism - Evan Smith
17. A New Perspective on European History in Australian Senior History Curricula from the Last 30 Years - Reinhard Kuehnel
18. Eurasian Contiguity and Russia's 'Stunted Nationhood' - Tania Rafass
The collection centres around the theme of Europe’s expansions and contractions that have occurred over the last five centuries and the profound way in which the idea of ‘Europe’ has shaped the globe. The collection spans a wide range of topics within this overall theme, with essays focusing on militarism in inter-war Germany, the Jewish diaspora, Australia’s migrant communities, Eastern European national identities, the shifting and lingering concept of European ‘civilisation’ and history, anthropology, post-colonialism and Marxism, and comparative empires.
The collection demonstrates that detailed case studies, often categorised by periodisation, regionalism and theme, can be weaved together to present a challenging and thought-provoking idea of what European history can look like in the twenty-first century.
INTRODUCTION ONLINE FOR DOWNLOAD
LIST OF CHAPTERS:
1. Introduction - Evan Smith
2. The Reichwehr's Anti-Pacifist Campaign in the Final Years of the Weimar Republic - Steven Welch
3. Hindenburg, Hitler and Heusinger: A Fresh Look at German Military Policy, 1919-1955 - Juergen Foerster
4. The Fischer Controversy Revisited - John A. Moses
5. 'Privileged' Jews, Holocaust Representation and the 'Limits' of Judgment: The Case of Raul Hilberg - Adam Brown
6. In Search of Fritz Philippsborn: The Double Diaspora of a Jewish German - John Milfull
7. Blurred Borders: German Language Newspapers and Deutschtum in Australia- Rebecca Vonhoff
8. Italians Abroad: Critical Factors in the Development of Italian National Identity - Karen Agutter
9. Migration Generated Expansion of European Influence and the Role of Croatian Diaspora - Walter F. Lalich
10. Cigars as Symbols of Hungarian Patriotism: The Economic Origins of Cultural Nationalism - Alexander Maxwell
11. 'Our Faithfully Kept, Age-Old Inheritors': Transylvanian Saxon Folk Customs, Particularism and German Nationalism Between the Wars - Sacha E. Davis
12. 'The Dirtiest... Most Insignificant and Unpleasant Branch of Military Operations': Warfare and Civilisation in the Political Thought of Adam Ferguson - Bruce Buchan
13. The New Woman at Home and Abroad: Fiction, Female Identity and the British Empre - Sharon Crozier-de Rosa
14. The Anthropologist as Cold Warrior: The Interesting Times of Frederick Rose - Peter Monteath
15. 'Back to the USSR': Frederick Rose, the 'Stalin Criticism' and Anthropological Criticism During the Cold War - Valerie Munt
16. Bridging the Gap: The British Communist Party and the Limits of the State in Tackling Racism - Evan Smith
17. A New Perspective on European History in Australian Senior History Curricula from the Last 30 Years - Reinhard Kuehnel
18. Eurasian Contiguity and Russia's 'Stunted Nationhood' - Tania Rafass
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Cultural History, German History, and 17 moreColonialism (History), British History, Diasporas, Central European history, Eastern European history, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, Colonialism, Political History, Russian History, Social History, Australian History, History of Imperialism, Empire, Modern German History, History of Australian migration, Imperialism, and 20th century Austrian History
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Research Interests: History, Criminology, Social Movements, Women's Studies, Women's History, and 14 moreGender History, Security, Security Studies, Politics, Surveillance Studies, Political History, Feminism, Australian Politics, Social movements and revolution, Australian History, National Security (Intelligence), National Security, Intelligence and National Security, and Women's Liberation
Research Interests: History, British History, British Politics, Imperial History, Politics, and 24 moreFascism, Colonialism, Modern British History, Transnational History, British Empire, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Australian Politics, Australian History, British Imperialism, British and Irish History, Empire, Oswald Mosley, Right-Wing Movements, Imperialism, Cultural history of Fascism, History of Fascism, Right-Wing Extremism, Far Right, Far-Right Politics, Extreme and Far Right, Right Wing Populism, Far Right Movements, Fascist History, and British Union of Fascists (BUF)
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Criminology, British History, British Politics, and 32 moreMigration, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, Critical Criminology, Labor Migration, Communism, Modern British History, International Migration, Policing Studies, British Empire, Migration Studies, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Transnational migration, Cyprus, Counterterrorism (CT), British Imperialism, British and Irish History, Counter terrorism, History of the British Empire, British Imperial and Colonial History, Migrant workers, History of Communism, Race relations, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, Communist Parties, Cypriot History, Public order policing, Border control, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Migrant Communities, Border Criminology, Modern Cypriot History, and Suspect Communties In Terrorism
In 1980, three Republican women prisoners held in Armagh prison in Northern Ireland joined the hunger strike being conducted by male Republican prisoners in Maze Prison. Overshadowed by the fatal 1981 strike, the 1980 strike involved... more
In 1980, three Republican women prisoners held in Armagh prison in Northern Ireland joined the hunger strike being conducted by male Republican prisoners in Maze Prison. Overshadowed by the fatal 1981 strike, the 1980 strike involved these women in Armagh, who challenged the traditional nationalist notion of the strong male warrior, while generating sympathy and solidarity across the globe, including with the far left and the women’s liberation movement in Britain. This article will look at how the left and the women’s liberation movement in both Britain and Ireland looked to portray these women within their competing narratives.
Research Interests: Modern History, Marxism, British History, British Politics, Modern British History, and 29 moreIrish Politics, Northern Irish Politics, Feminism, Irish History, Feminist history, New Left, British and Irish History, Intersectionality, Irish Republicanism, Solidarity, Anti-imperialism, Northern Ireland, Politics of Solidarity, Hunger strikes, Communist Party of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Troubles, British Far Left, History of Marxism, Intersectional Feminism, Armagh, Irish Nationalism, National Liberation movements, History of the Left, Irish Republican Army, Hunger Strikes and Protest, Women's Liberation, The Troubles, Sinn Féin, and Left Wing Parties
Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Marxism, British History, Higher Education, and 18 moreBritish Politics, Politics, Identity politics, Communism, Modern British History, History of Universities, Radical Democracy, Intersectionality, Student movements, Anti-Fascism, Students, British Politics since 1945, Antifascism, Trotskyism, Neo Nazism , Fascism, Marxism, National Union of Students, British Higher Education, and no platforming
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British Commonwealth faced the twin ‘threats’ of decolonisation and communism, with many across the Commonwealth seeing decolonisation as the first step towards communist dictatorship. Recent... more
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British Commonwealth faced the twin ‘threats’ of decolonisation and communism, with many across the Commonwealth seeing decolonisation as the first step towards communist dictatorship. Recent scholarship has shown that the British attempted to ‘manage’ the decolonisation process to prevent socialist movements or national liberation movements sympathetic to the Soviet Bloc from coming to power. Therefore Britain, along with the Dominions, co-ordinated their intelligence services to combat the communist threat across the Commonwealth. This paper explores how this co-ordination of anti-communist efforts was implemented in Britain, Australia and South Africa in the early Cold War era, which involved the breaking of strikes using the armed forces, the close monitoring of ‘persons of interest’ and the (attempted) banning of the Communist Party. It also seeks to demonstrate that the history of anti-communism, similar to communism, has an international dimension that is only starting to be investigated by historians.
Research Interests: History, Marxism, British History, African History, British Politics, and 22 morePolitics, Socialisms, Australia, Communism, Modern British History, Apartheid, South Africa (History), British Empire, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Australian Politics, Australian History, British Imperialism, Socialism, British and Irish History, South African history, Imperialism, History of Communism, South Africa, Anti-communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Historical research on the international communist movement., and Colonialism and Imperialism
The Second World War (after June 1941) was a high point for the international communist movement with the Popular Front against fascism bringing many new people into Communist Parties in the global West. In the United States, South Africa... more
The Second World War (after June 1941) was a high point for the international communist movement with the Popular Front against fascism bringing many new people into Communist Parties in the global West. In the United States, South Africa and Australia, the Communist Party supported the war effort believing that the war against fascism would eventually become a war against imperialism and capitalism. Part of this support for the war effort was the support of black and indigenous soldiers in the armed forces. This activism fit into a wider tradition of these communist parties’ anti-racist campaigning that had existed since the 1920s. This article looks at how support for the national war effort and anti-racist activism intertwined for these CPs during the war and the problems over ‘loyalty’ and commitment to the anti-imperial struggle that this entanglement of aims produced.
Research Interests: History, American History, Military History, Marxism, Race and Racism, and 23 moreAfrican History, South African Politics and Society, Politics, Australia, Communism, Second World War, African American History, Black History, Australian Politics, Australian History, United States History, Indigenous Peoples, Socialism, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Aboriginal History in Australia, South African history, Anti-Racism, History of Communism, South Africa, Communist International, Socialist history, Communism and national question, and History of Anti-Apartheid Politics
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, British History, and 18 moreBritish Politics, Unemployment, Modern British History, British and Irish History, Television History, British Popular Culture, Television, Twentieth-Century British History and Culture, Film and Television Comedy, Thatcherism, Margaret Thatcher, Youth Unemployment, Race and Class Portrayals on TV, John Major Premiership, The Young Ones, United Kingdon during Thatcher, Alternative Comedy, and men behaving badly
This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terrorists from the Middle East and North... more
This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terrorists from the Middle East and North Africa. Using recently opened archival records, it shows that the UK government introduced a strict system of visa checks, interviews, and other measures to nearly all Middle Eastern and North African visitors to the UK to prevent the entry of suspected terrorist personnel. By using these highly arbitrary measures, it became the modus operandi of the UK authorities to treat all Middle Eastern and North Africans as potential terrorists until convinced otherwise.
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Terrorism, British History, Border Studies, and 15 moreImmigration, British Politics, Migration, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, Modern British History, Political Violence, Immigration History, Migration Studies, Middle East Politics, Counter terrorism, North Africa, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, Border control, and Immigration Control Policy
Research Interests: History, American History, Film Studies, Television Studies, British television history, and 18 moreBritish History, Film Analysis, Film History, World War I, First World War, Crime History, HISTORY OF CRIME AND LAW, Television History, History on Television, Organised Crime, Crime, Soldiers, Cultural History of the First World War, History of Crime and Punishment, History on Film, Boardwalk Empire, Shellshock and PTSD especially WW1, and Peaky Blinders
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Sociology, Criminology, Political Sociology, and 24 moreSocial Movements, Marxism, British History, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, British Politics, Politics, Critical Criminology, Modern British History, Socio-legal studies, Public Order Law, Conservative Party, Crowds, Crime, Mobs, Riots, and Revolutionary Crowds, Radical history, Conservatives, British Conservatism/Conservative Party since 1945, Thatcherism, Riots, Public order policing, Public Order, David Cameron, 2011 English riots, and Public Order History
This article examines the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and its youth wing, the Young Communist League (YCL), in the advancement of gay rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the CPGB was the first major... more
This article examines the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and its youth wing, the Young Communist League (YCL), in the advancement of gay rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the CPGB was the first major organization of the British labour movement—and the British left—to advance a policy of gay rights, its participation in the gay liberation movement has tended to be neglected by scholars. In contrast to the general perception of the CPGB in the last decade (or so) of its existence as a party of declining influence and cohesion, easily ignored by the mainstream of the labour movement, we argue that the embrace of gay rights provided communists with a means of pushing for a diversification of labour politics. This coalesced in the mid-1980s with the co-founding of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) by the communist activist Mark Ashton. With the recent scholarly and public interest in the LGSM and its impact upon the Labour Party's attitude to gay rights, this article aims to reveal that the 'pre-history' of the group is firmly rooted in the CPGB/YCL and the Eurocommunist section of the British communist movement. The year 2014 saw the 13th anniversary of the beginning of the 1984–5 miners' strike and the establishment of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). The moment was used to launch the British film Pride, which tells the story of LGSM. One of the controversial points of the film's narrative was the silence over the co-founder of LGSM Mark Ashton's membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Marxism, British History, British Politics, and 25 moreLabour history, Post-Marxism, Trade unionism, Politics, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Marxist theory, New Left, Socialism, British and Irish History, Gay and Lesbian History, Socialist Feminism, LGBTq Activisms, Trade unions, History of Communism, LGBT History, Thatcherism, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Communist Parties, Gay Rights, Trade Union and Labour History -UK, Gay Rights Movement, 1984-85 Miners Strike, and The Miners Strike 1984-85
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) had a long tradition of anti-colonial activism since its foundation in 1920 and had been a champion of national liberation within the British Empire. However, the Party also adhered to the idea... more
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) had a long tradition of
anti-colonial activism since its foundation in 1920 and had been a champion of national liberation within the British Empire. However, the Party also adhered to the idea that Britain’s former colonies, once independent, would want to join a trade relationship with their former coloniser, believing that Britain required these forms of relationship to maintain supplies of food and raw materials. This position was
maintained into the 1950s until challenged in 1956–1957 by the Party’s African and Caribbean membership, seizing the opportunity presented by the fallout of the political crises facing the CPGB in 1956. I argue in this article that this challenge was an important turning point for the Communist Party’s view on issues of imperialism and race, and also led to a burst of anti-colonial and anti-racist activism. But this
victory by its African and Caribbean members was short-lived, as the political landscape and agenda of the CPGB shifted in the late 1960s.
anti-colonial activism since its foundation in 1920 and had been a champion of national liberation within the British Empire. However, the Party also adhered to the idea that Britain’s former colonies, once independent, would want to join a trade relationship with their former coloniser, believing that Britain required these forms of relationship to maintain supplies of food and raw materials. This position was
maintained into the 1950s until challenged in 1956–1957 by the Party’s African and Caribbean membership, seizing the opportunity presented by the fallout of the political crises facing the CPGB in 1956. I argue in this article that this challenge was an important turning point for the Communist Party’s view on issues of imperialism and race, and also led to a burst of anti-colonial and anti-racist activism. But this
victory by its African and Caribbean members was short-lived, as the political landscape and agenda of the CPGB shifted in the late 1960s.
Research Interests: History, Marxism, British History, British Politics, Critical Race Theory, and 16 morePolitics, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, Communism, Post-Colonialism, British Empire, Transnational Social Movements, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), History of Imperialism, British Imperialism, Socialism, Anti-Racism, Imperialism, History of Communism, Anti-Colonialism, Colonialism and Imperialism, and Postcolonialism
Review of: David Featherstone Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (London/New York: Zed Books, 2012) Christian Høgsbjerg C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) Neville Kirk... more
Review of:
David Featherstone Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (London/New York: Zed Books, 2012)
Christian Høgsbjerg C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014)
Neville Kirk Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)
Irina Filatova & Apollon Davidson The Hidden Thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2013)
David Featherstone Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (London/New York: Zed Books, 2012)
Christian Høgsbjerg C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014)
Neville Kirk Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)
Irina Filatova & Apollon Davidson The Hidden Thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2013)
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This article examines the reaction by the Australian Federal Government to the protest movements of the 1960s–1970s and their attempts to use public order legislation to thwart radical discontent in Australia. It argues that the Public... more
This article examines the reaction by the Australian Federal Government to the protest movements of the 1960s–1970s and their attempts to use public order legislation to thwart radical discontent in Australia. It argues that the Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Act 1971 was aimed at the threat of “violent” protests, particularly the tactic of the “sit-in”, and that to this end, the legislation was an overreaction to the actual threat posed by the protest movements at the time. It also shows that after a long gestation period, the Act was ill-equipped to deal with the changing nature of demonstrations in the 1970s, such as the problems caused by the erection of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Thus, after an initial flurry of use in mid-1971, the law has been seldom used since.
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Social Movements, Criminal Justice, Marxism, and 14 morePolitics, Socio-legal studies, Protest, Policing Studies, Australian Politics, Australian History, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Protest Movements, Police and Policing, Left-wing Radicalism, Anti-Vietnam War Movement, 1961-1975, Canberra, Demonstrations, and Student Protest
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Social Movements, Marxism, British History, and 27 moreContemporary History, British Politics, Labour history, Politics, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Modern British History, Social Activism, History of Anarchism, Social movements and revolution, Marxist Feminism, Western Marxism, British and Irish History, Radical Democracy, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, Trade unions, Maoism, Twentieth-Century British History and Culture, Women's movement, Communist Party of Great Britain, British Far Left, Communist Parties, History of Marxism, Trade Union and Labour History -UK, Left Wing Parties, History of Fascism and Antifascism, and Class War
Suspended sentences, although controversial, are used in most jurisdictions across Australia in some form, with most states and territories having introduced this sentencing option in the 1980s and 1990s. However, South Australia's... more
Suspended sentences, although controversial, are used in most jurisdictions across Australia in some form, with most states and territories having introduced this sentencing option in the 1980s and 1990s. However, South Australia's legislation concerning suspended sentences is much older (having been introduced in 1969) and is also based on sentencing legislation that existed in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. This article will argue that because the legislation concerning suspended sentences in South Australia is much older (and based on even older legislation), the way that this sentencing option operates is much different from other Australian jurisdictions. Based on Victorian probation legislation, suspended sentences have a flexibility in South Australia, which has meant that other forms of alternative sentencing (such as community orders and home detention) are not used in the State.
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Criminology, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, and 13 moreLegal History, Australian society, Australian History, Criminology (Social Sciences), Sentence Processing, Australian Legal History, Punishment and Prisons, Sentencing, Sentencing and management of offenders, South Australia, Penal Reform, Sentencing Guidelines, and South Australian History
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Television Studies, and 25 moreScreen Comedy, Comedy, British History, Popular Culture, Subcultures, British Politics, Politics, Modern British History, Youth Culture, Pop Culture, Television And Social Change, Punk Culture, Cult television, Stand Up Comedy, Youth Subcultures, British and Irish History, Television History, Punk Studies, Post-punk, Punk Rock, Sitcoms, Subculture, Cinema and Television, Punk Subculture, and TV Sitcoms
This article explores how British immigration control policy was carried out during the nineteen-seventies to filter immigration, while addressing the perceived problem of ‘non-white’ colonial migration. Recently released government... more
This article explores how British immigration control policy was carried out during the nineteen-seventies to filter immigration, while addressing the perceived problem of ‘non-white’ colonial migration. Recently released government documents suggest that the immigration control system should be viewed as a series of inter-connected institutions and actors that operated under the influence of a number of different, and often contradictory, factors. The result of these competing factors was an immigration control system that, relying on the paradoxical whims of the government and other sections of civil society, was restrictive and suspicious towards potential migrants, but at the same time constrained in its behaviour.
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Criminology, Law, British History, and 57 moreCommonwealth History, Border Studies, Race and Racism, Contemporary History, Sovereignty, Immigration, Immigration Studies, British Politics, Migration, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration Law, Politics, Recent History, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, Critical Criminology, Modern British History, Political History, Biopolitcs, Giorgio Agamben, British Foreign Policy, International Migration, Immigration and Emmigration, British Empire, Immigration History, Migration Studies, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Migration History, Biopolitics, Transnational migration, British Imperialism, British and Irish History, South Asian Diasporas, History of the British Empire, Territorial Sovereignty, 19th & 20th century British Imperial & Commonwealth History, Agamben, Race, Biopolitics (in Agamben, Foucault and Negri), UK immigration and asylum law, Biopower and Biopolitics, Thatcherism, Uk Politics, 1970s, Margaret Thatcher, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, State sovereignty, Border control, Theories of Sovereignty (Schmitt, Agamben, constructivist theories), Enoch Powell, Border control, EU migration policy, policy punctuations, Thatcher's Britain, Immigration Status & Nationality, The 1970s, Criminology & Criminal Justice, and Georgio Agamben
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Film Theory, and 43 moreBritish History, Film Music And Sound, Popular Culture, Film Analysis, Philosophy of Film, Modern British History, Film History, Punk Culture, Film and History, Popular And Political Cultures Of Memory, Cinema, Punk, British Popular Culture, History and film, Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture, Deleuze & Cinema, Film, Punk Studies, Post-punk, Film and Media Studies, Popular Memory, Cinema Studies, Kitchen Sink Drama, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, Michael Winterbottom, Punk Rock, Twentieth-Century British History and Culture, Cultural Memory (especially in Relation to Cinema And/or Photography), Cinema/cultural Experience and Psychoanalytic Theory, Film History; Photography and Cultural Memory, film and history, Robert A. Rosenstone, Tony Wilson, British Culture, Punk Cinema, Cinema Theory, Cinema and Television, Punk Subculture, Factory Records, History, Memory and Popular Culture, History of Film Theory and Criticism, Social Realism/kitchen sink, Joy Division, Cinematic Discourses, Popular Music and Popular Culture, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, and Raphael Samuel
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Criminology, Political Sociology, Criminal Justice, and 34 moreBritish History, Border Studies, Refugee Studies, Immigration, Criminal Justice History, Immigration Studies, British Politics, Asylum Law, Immigration Law, Politics, The Body, Body, Critical Criminology, Modern British History, International Migration, Immigration History, European Immigration and Asylum Law, Sociology of the Body, Contemporary International Migration, Criminology (Social Sciences), Asylum seekers, History of Medicine and the Body, Refugees, 20th century British political history, British political history, Crime, UK immigration and asylum law, British Politics since 1945, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, Asylum and refugees studies, migration and integration, Refugees, migration and immigration, Refugees & border controls, Border control, and Immigration Status & Nationality
Research Interests: Critical Theory, History, Modern History, Criminology, Social Movements, and 81 moreCriminal Justice, Monetary Economics, Policy Analysis/Policy Studies, Social Policy, Public Opinion, Globalization, Youth Studies, Marxism, British History, British History, Poverty, Race and Racism, Urban History, Criminal Justice History, Social Movement, British Politics, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Political Culture, Politics, Identity politics, Consumerism, Law and Politics, Urban Regeneration, Riots and Civil Unrest in Late 20th C. Britain, History from Below, Modern British History, Political History, Youth Culture, Social Movements (Political Science), Policing Studies, Ethnic minorities, Neoliberalism, Modern London, 20th century (History), Social History, Conservative Party, Youth Subcultures, Community Policing, Youth Political Participation, Homi Bhabha (Cultural Theory), Urban Social Movements, Identity, UK, London, Social Control, Protest Policing, Policing, Rebellion, Homi K. Bhabha, Crime, Mobs, Riots, and Revolutionary Crowds, Deviance, Police and Policing, Policing, race and ethnicity, Mobs, Riots, and Crowds, Brixton, Left-wing Radicalism, Thatcherism, Margaret Thatcher, Consumer Society, Austerity Measures, British Far Left, Revolts, Criminology and Criminal Justice, London Riots, Thatcher, David Cameron, Community Policing, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Police Reform, Police use of stop and search powers, Urban riots in london, Revolts and protests, Disproportionate Minority Contact, 2011 English riots, Politics of Austerity, Theory of Rebellion, Scarman Report, Inner City Youth, Contemporary Capitalism, Youth Employment and Labour Markets, and Inner Cities
Research Interests: Critical Theory, History, Sociology, Political Sociology, Human Geography, and 107 moreLaw, Gender Studies, Policy Analysis/Policy Studies, Political Philosophy, Historical Sociology, Sex and Gender, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Gender History, British History, Migration mobilities, Policy Analysis and Decision Making, Human Rights, Transnationalism, Border Studies, Qualitative methodology, Governmentality, State crime, Race and Racism, International Criminal Law, Immigration, Feminist Philosophy, Immigration Studies, British Politics, Migration, Gender and Sexuality, Critical Race Theory, Class, Irregular Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Security Studies, Critical Security Studies, Immigration Law, Politics, Human Trafficking, History of Sexuality, Securitization, Gender, The Body, Modern British History, Poverty Reduction Strategies, Women, Trafficking in Women, Post-Colonialism, Border Policy, Human Security, International Migration, Border Crossing, Michel Foucault, Immigration History, Sociology of the Body, Immigration an Citzenship, Forced Migration, Migration Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 20th century (History), Virginity, Migration History, Biopolitics, Sociology of Migration, Transnational migration, Contemporary International Migration, International Economic Relations, Women And Globalization, Transnational Labour Migration, Race and Gender, Migration (Sociology), Immigration Policy (Immigration History), Gender and Race, Postcolonial Identities, Racial and ethnic discrimination, Theories of Sovereignty, History of Race and Ethnicity, Empire, Race, Class, and Gender, Racial Profiling, Agamben, International Labour Law, Citizenship, Race, 20th century British political history, Biopolitics (in Agamben, Foucault and Negri), Imperialism, The female body as text, Female Sexuality, Feminist Political Theory, UK immigration and asylum law, Biopower and Biopolitics, Border Managment, Migration and Border Management, Migration and Security, Sex Trafficking, State Violence, Biopolitics of Security, History of the Body, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Negri, State Power, State sovereignty, State Crimes, Human Traffikcing, Victims of Trafficking, Sex Work, Immigration History Uk, Border control, Post Conflict Development, Immigration Status & Nationality, Governance and State Capacity, Liberal Democracies, and Public Policy
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Sociology, and 57 moreMusic History, Political Parties, Marxism, British History, Popular Culture, Subcultures, Contemporary History, British Politics, Identity (Culture), Politics, Identity politics, Music and Politics, Cultural Politics, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Youth Culture, Culture Studies, Culture and Politics, Punk Culture, Postmodern Marxism, Electronic Dance Music Culture (EDMC), Gramsci, Social History, Youth Subcultures, New Left, Western Marxism, Socialism, Punk, Intellectual Disability, Antonio Gramsci, Youth Political Participation, Marxism and Media Studies, Youth subcultures (Sociology), Stuart Hall, Punk Studies, Gramscianism, Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony, Post-punk, Youth, Political Identity, History of Communism, Punk Rock, Rave Culture, Post Punk, Rave, Hip hop, Thatcherism, Margaret Thatcher, Gramscian Studies, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Parties, Rap, Thatcher, Acid House, Punk Subculture, and Left Wing Parties
Research Interests: History, Eastern Europe, Marxism, British History, Contemporary History, and 58 moreCold War and Culture, Cultural Cold War, British Politics, Cold War, Post-Marxism, Politics, Socialisms, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Eurocommunism, European Politics, State Theory, Marxist theory, Post Cold War Era, Postmodern Marxism, Historical Materialism, New Left, Western Marxism, Socialism, Post-Socialism, Marxism (Political Science), British and Irish History, Intellectual Disability, Modern Britain, Marxist political economy, Post-Communism, Cold War history, Cold War Culture, Russia, Workerism, New social movements, Socialism, communism, The Cold War, Democratic Socialism, History of Communism, Left Wing Extremism, Stalinism, Cold War Studies, Perestroika, History of Communism; Soviet; Post-Soviet; Russia; Eastern Europe, Left-wing Radicalism, Thatcherism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Russia and the Soviet Union, State capitalism, Glasnost, Marxism-Leninism, Communist and Post-communist Politics, Leninism, Trotsky, Trotskyism History, 1989 in Europe, Socialist Workers Party, Left Wing Parties, Working Class Movement, Criticism of Post and Neo Marxism, and Criticism of Post Modernism
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movements, and 75 moreMarxism, British History, Popular Culture, Race and Racism, Subcultures, Contemporary History, Social Movement, British Politics, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Politics, Identity politics, Prejudice, Music and Politics, Cultural Politics, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Youth Culture, Pop Culture, Racism, Punk Culture, Black British History, Anti-nazi resistance, Gramsci, European Parliament, Youth Subcultures, Islamophobia, New Left, Elections, Western Marxism, Socialism, Punk, Intellectual Disability, Modern Britain, Antonio Gramsci, Post-War History of British Pop Music, Youth Political Participation, British Twentieth Century, Punk Studies, New Left and the 1960s, Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony, Post-punk, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, New social movements, British Fascism, Radical Right, Radical left practice all over the world,world history and labour, 20th century British political history, History of Communism, New Left extremism, Extremism, Punk Rock, Post Punk, Far Right, Xenophobia, Muslims, Britain, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Attitudes, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Parties, BNP, Activists, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmarment (CND), Skinheads, British National party, Legacy, CND, Late Modern British History, Rock Against Racism, Anti Nazi League, Left Wing Parties, and Local Context
This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. By analysing these documents, we argue... more
This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. By analysing these documents, we argue that the ‘virginity testing’ controversy demonstrates the intersectionality of discrimination faced by migrant women from the Indian subcontinent attempting to enter Britain in the 1970s. Previous discussions of the practice have focused on either the dimension of ‘race’ or gender as the determining factor behind this invasive procedure, but this article shows that both dimensions are of equal importance in explaining why immigration officers undertook ‘testing’ for virginity during border control investigations. The emphasis within the immigration control system on preventing ‘bogus’ migration informed how immigration officers processed potential migrants and this framework of suspicion allowed the practice of ‘virginity testing’ to occur.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, History, Modern History, Criminology, Political Sociology, and 87 moreHuman Geography, Law, Criminal Justice, Gender Studies, Political Philosophy, Sex and Gender, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Women's History, Human Rights Law, Gender History, British History, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights, Transnationalism, Border Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Qualitative methodology, State crime, Race and Racism, Contemporary History, Legal History, Immigration, Feminist Philosophy, Immigration Studies, British Politics, Sexual Violence, Migration, Gender and Sexuality, Critical Race Theory, Class, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration Law, Law and Politics, Securitization, Gender, Modern British History, Intersectionality Theory, Political History, Gilles Deleuze, Biopolitcs, International Migration, Border Crossing, Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Immigration and Emmigration, Women and Politics, Postcolonial Feminism, Immigration History, Indian Diaspora (Migration and Ethnicity), Migration Studies, Virginity, Migration History, Biopolitics, Sociology of Migration, Transnational migration, Women And Globalization, Feminist history, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, British and Irish History, Immigration Policy (Immigration History), Gender and Race, 20th Century, Intersectionality and Social Inequality, South Asian Diaspora, Theories of Sovereignty, South Asian Diasporas, History of Race and Ethnicity, Empire, Intersectionality, Immigration and Citizenship, Agamben, Citizenship, International Migration and Immigration Policy, Race, Imperialism, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Critical Social Theory and Intersectionality, Border Managment, Migration and Border Management, Migration and Security, Anti-discrimination law, History of the Body, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Negri, Immigration and Border Security, History of the body and sexuality, and Immigration Status & Nationality
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Law, Criminal Justice, Sex and Gender, and 43 moreWomen's History, Human Rights Law, British History, Commonwealth History, Human Rights, Border Studies, Postcolonial Studies, State crime, Race and Racism, International Criminal Law, Legal History, Immigration, Immigration Studies, British Politics, Migration, Class, Immigration Law, Human Trafficking, Border Policy, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Immigration and Emmigration, British Empire, Immigration History, Migration Studies, Migration History, Biopolitics, Transnational migration, Contemporary International Migration, Immigration Policy (Immigration History), Gender and Race, 20th Century, Racial and ethnic discrimination, Intersectionality, Immigration and Citizenship, Feminist Legal Studies, International Labour Law, Citizenship, Race, Feminist Political Theory, Border Managment, Migration and Border Management, Migration and Security, State sovereignty, Post Conflict Development, and Immigration Status & Nationality
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Multiculturalism, Social Policy, and 64 moreLabour Party (UK), British History, Critical Race Studies, Poverty, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Racism, Immigration, British Politics, Migration, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Urban Regeneration, Modern British History, Youth Culture, Intra-European Migration, European Union Citizenship, Police, Hate Speech, European Union, National Identity, Ethnic minorities, Immigration History, Black British History, Migration Studies, Social History, Migration History, Sociology of Migration, Transnational migration, Islamophobia, Enlargement and Integration in the EU, Anti-Racism, UK, Race, Policing, 20th century British political history, British political history, Crime, Race relations, Anti racism, UK immigration and asylum law, Racism, Identity, Islamophobia, Hate crime, Uk anti-terrorism legislation and its human rights implications, British Politics since 1945, Thatcherism, Margaret Thatcher, Islamophobia and Media, Islam in UK & Europe and Counter-Terrorism, Blairism, Race and crime, Gun and Knife Crime, Police use of stop and search powers, Enoch Powell, Late Modern British History, Stop and search, Policing In Scotland, Public Perceptions of Policing, Stop, Search In Scotland, Inner Cities, Islamophobia In Europe, Vicarious Police Contact, and Perceptions of Injustice
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Social Movements, Law, Criminal Justice, and 32 moreContemporary History, Legal History, Political Science, Labour history, Social Movements (History), Politics, Political History, Public Order Law, Protest, Social Movements (Political Science), Policing Studies, Australian Politics, Alternative Media, Australian History, Counterculture, 1968, New social movements, 1960s, Protest Policing, Anti-War, Crime, Protest Movements, Protest and resistance, Political Demonstrations, Anti-Vietnam War Movement, 1961-1975, AUSTRALIAN LABOUR AND FEMINIST HISTORY, Demonstrations, Public order policing, Sixties, Public Order, Student Protest, and Public Policy
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Law, Criminal Justice, Multiculturalism, and 41 moreSex and Gender, Racial and Ethnic Politics, British History, Border Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Racism, Contemporary History, Legal History, Immigration, British Politics, Migration, Critical Race Theory, Class, Race and Ethnicity, Security Studies, Immigration Law, Politics, Law and Politics, Modern British History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration, Migration Studies, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Sociology of Migration, Transnational migration, Contemporary International Migration, British and Irish History, Gender and Race, 20th Century, Modern Britain, Racial and ethnic discrimination, South Asian Diasporas, Racial Profiling, Citizenship, Race, 20th century British political history, British political history, UK immigration and asylum law, British Politics since 1945, Race Relations in Britain since 1945 Goulbourne H:, and Immigration Status & Nationality
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Criminal Justice, and 54 moreMulticulturalism, Political Parties, Marxism, British History, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Racism, Hybridity, Social Movement, British Politics, Critical Race Theory, Politics, Identity politics, Diaspora Politics, Cultural Politics, Toxteth Riots, Riots and Civil Unrest in Late 20th C. Britain, Modern British History, Political History, Youth Culture, Public Order Law, Post-Colonialism, Social Movements (Political Science), Identity Politics (Political Science), Marxist theory, Black British History, Black History, Citizenship, Identity And Social Movements, Social movements and revolution, Youth Subcultures, New Left, Western Marxism, Black Marxisms, South Asian Diasporas, Subaltern Studies, Youth Political Participation, Homi Bhabha (Cultural Theory), Stuart Hall, The Perception of Crime and Policing, Anti-Racism, Cultural hybridity, Policing, Paul Gilroy, Mobs, Riots, and Revolutionary Crowds, Brixton, Transformational Identities, Race Riots, Communist Party of Great Britain, Public order policing, Public Order, Hybridity and Cultural Identity, Riot, Socialist Workers Party, Multiplicity In Identity, and Social Constructs of Identity
Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Law, Criminal Justice, Multiculturalism, and 34 moreRacial and Ethnic Politics, Marxism, British History, Race and Racism, Contemporary History, Legal History, Social Movement, British Politics, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Politics, Identity politics, Socialisms, Communism, Modern British History, Post-Colonialism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Movements (Political Science), Antidiscrimination Law, Black British History, Social movements and revolution, New Left, Western Marxism, Racial and ethnic discrimination, Stuart Hall, New Left and the 1960s, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, British Fascism, Race relations, Anti racism, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Communist Party of Great Britain, and Antifascism
Research Interests: History, Social Change, Social Movements, Public Opinion, Marxism, and 45 moreBritish History, Race and Racism, British Politics, Political Science, Social Movements (History), Politics, Socialisms, Protest Music, Communism, Modern British History, Public Order Law, Social Media, Protest, Social Movements (Political Science), Black British History, Anti-nazi resistance, Social History, Alternative Media, Democracy, Western Marxism, Socialism, Marxism (Political Science), British and Irish History, Intellectual Disability, British Twentieth Century, Stuart Hall, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, Counterculture, New social movements, 1960s, Protest Policing, Anti-War, Protest Movements, Ir, Party Politics, Protest and resistance, Popular Protest, Public order policing, Sixties, Political / International Communication, Mass Media and Society, Muslim and Western Political Thought, Left Wing Parties, and Student Protest
This article examines a turning point in the relationship between the black communities in Britain and the British labour movement, focusing upon the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in this relationship. While 1968 saw... more
This article examines a turning point in the relationship between the black communities in Britain and the British labour movement, focusing upon the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in this relationship. While 1968 saw a great wave of industrial militancy and cultural radicalism, during which the CPGB was quite influential, this upsurge in radical activist politics did not translate into major gains in the struggle against racism in Britain. 1968 saw the tightening of immigration controls and a Labour government intent on the ‘integration’ of black immigrants, coupled with an increase in racist agitation on the right by Enoch Powell and the fledgling National Front, which caused problems for Britain's black population. The CPGB, one of the largest leftist parties and with a history of anti-colonial and anti-fascist activism, had the potential to be an important agent in the anti-racist movement in the late 1960s, but any appeal to black workers was subsumed by the wider industrial struggles of the period—a phenomenon that was replicated throughout the British labour movement. The inability of the trade unions and the British left to effectively address the grievances of black workers led to autonomous black political organisation, inspired by the ideas of black power and the Marxism of the national liberation struggles. This division between the (primarily white) labour movement and black workers was widened by the events of 1968 and would further consolidate throughout the 1970s. The purpose of this article is to portray how the schism between the traditional organisations of the British working class and the black communities developed, significantly demonstrated by the failure of the heightened radicalism of 1968 to produce tangible benefits for black Britons, and how the potential of the CPGB to undertake an important anti-racist role was diminished by its focus on militant labourism.
Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Marxism, British History, and 50 morePostcolonial Studies, Race and Racism, Social Movement, British Politics, Labour history, Trade unionism, Social Movements (History), Politics, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Socialisms, Communism, Modern British History, Protest, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Sixties, Racism, Immigration History, Black British History, Black Power, Alternative Media, New Left, Western Marxism, Socialism, 1960s (History), Marxism (Political Science), Intellectual Disability, Modern Britain, New Left and the 1960s, Anti-Racism, Counterculture, 1968, 1960s, Anti-War, History of Communism, Race relations, Left-wing Radicalism, Black Power in Britain, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Labour Movements, Communist Party of Great Britain, 1960s Culture, Communist Parties, Sixties, 1968 in Europe, student activism and protest in Britain in the Long Sixties, Anti Immigration, British Labour Movement, Enoch Powell, Left Wing Parties, and Student Protest
Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Sex and Gender, Marxism, British History, and 37 morePostcolonial Studies, Race and Racism, Cold War and Culture, Social Movement, British Politics, Labour history, Cold War, Critical Race Theory, Class, Trade unionism, Politics, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Post-Colonialism, Social Movements (Political Science), Marxist theory, Subalternity, Subaltern Agency, British Empire, Black British History, History of Comintern, Transnational Social Movements, Citizenship, Identity And Social Movements, Social movements and revolution, New Left, Subaltern Studies, Cold War history, New Left and the 1960s, Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony, Race, Anti-imperialism, Cold War Studies, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Communist Party of Great Britain, Anti-Colonialism, Marxism-Leninism, and British Labour Movement
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Research Interests: History, Political Sociology, Marxism, British History, Critical Race Studies, and 19 morePostcolonial Studies, Race and Racism, British Politics, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Politics, Socialisms, Political History, Post-Colonialism, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, New Left, New Left and the 1960s, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Communist Party of Great Britain, Anti-racism and social change, Antifascism, and British Labour Movement
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Marxism, British History, British Politics, and 18 morePolitics, Socialisms, Communism, Chinese Communism and Left-wing Movement, New Left, Socialism, History of Communism, Maoism, Left Wing Extremism, Left-wing Radicalism, Maoist movement, British Far Left, Naxalism / Left-wing Extremism, European Left-wing Politics, History of Maoism, Sects, History of European Socialism and Communism, and Left Wing Parties
Research Interests: History, Law, Gender Studies, Sex and Gender, Women's Studies, and 29 moreWomen's History, British History, Race and Racism, Anthropology of the Body, Immigration, Immigration Studies, Critical Race Theory, Class, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration Law, Politics, The Body, The Abject Body, Modern British History, Intersectionality Theory, Biopolitcs, Immigration History, European Immigration and Asylum Law, Sociology of the Body, Biopolitics, Immigration Policy (Immigration History), Gender and Race, Ethnicity, Citizenship, Race, Biopower and Biopolitics, immigration;immigrant women, South Asian immigrants, Women Issues and Immigration, and Immigration Status & Nationality
Research Interests: History, Marxism, British History, Immigration, Immigration Studies, and 42 moreBritish Politics, Labour history, Trade unionism, Immigration Law, Politics, Socialisms, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, Communism, Modern British History, Political History, Immigration and Emmigration, Immigration History, New Left, Socialism, Intellectual Disability, New Left and the 1960s, Citizenship, Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, British Fascism, Trade Union Militancy, Working-Class History, Race relations, Anti racism, Trade Union History, Left-wing Radicalism, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, Labour Movements, Communist Party of Great Britain, British Far Left, Communist Parties, Socialist history, British Labour Movement, Immigration History Uk, Socialism, Marxism and trade unionism in Britain, Marxist history, European Left-wing Politics, Leftist Movements, Racism and Anti-racism, Anti-racist Movements, Immigration Status & Nationality, and Left Wing Parties
Research Interests: History, Criminology, Marxism, British History, British Politics, and 22 morePolitics, Communism, Modern British History, New Left, Western Marxism, Marxism (Political Science), 20th century British political history, History of Communism, Maoism, Left Wing Extremism, Left-wing Radicalism, British Politics since 1945, Maoist movement, The ideology of the British New Left, 1956-1979, British Far Left, Marxism-Leninism, Domestic Slavery, Leftwing Activism, European Left-wing Politics, History of Maoism, Left Wing Parties, and UK Far Left
Research Interests: Criminology, Criminal Justice, Terrorism, International Terrorism, British History, and 20 moreBorder Studies, British Politics, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, Critical Criminology, Modern British History, Political History, History of Terrorism, Criminology (Social Sciences), Counter terrorism, Racial and ethnic discrimination, War on Terror, Racial Profiling, Racial discrimination, Crime, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, Global War on Terror, Border control, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, and Insurgency and counterinsurgency
Research Interests: Criminology, Policy Analysis/Policy Studies, Social Policy, British History, Border Studies, and 29 moreState crime, Immigration, Immigration Studies, British Politics, Migration, Irregular Migration, Immigration Law, Politics, Modern British History, Political History, Immigration and Emmigration, Immigration History, European Immigration and Asylum Law, Migration Studies, Migration History, Transnational migration, British and Irish History, Immigration Policy (Immigration History), Modern Britain, Racial and ethnic discrimination, Immigration and Citizenship, Racial discrimination, Judicial Discretion, Border Managment, Migration and Border Management, Migration and Security, Immigration, Citizenship, Border Controls, Border Security, Border control, Immigration Status & Nationality, and Public Policy
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British Commonwealth faced the twin ‘threats’ of decolonisation and communism, with many across the Commonwealth seeing decolonisation as the first step towards communist dictatorship. Recent... more
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British Commonwealth faced the twin ‘threats’ of decolonisation and communism, with many across the Commonwealth seeing decolonisation as the first step towards communist dictatorship. Recent scholarship has shown that the British attempted to ‘manage’ the decolonisation process to prevent socialist movements or national liberation movements sympathetic to the Soviet Bloc from coming to power. Therefore Britain, along with the Dominions, co-ordinated their intelligence services to combat the communist threat across the Commonwealth. This paper will explore how this co-ordination of anti-communist efforts was implemented in Britain, Australia and South Africa in the early Cold War era, which the close monitoring of ‘persons of interest’, the purging of the trade unions and the (attempted) banning of the Communist Party. It will seek to demonstrate that the history of anti-communism, similar to communism, has a transnational dimension that is only starting to be investigated by historians.
Research Interests: History, Marxism, British History, British Politics, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, and 16 moreCommunism, Anticommunism (History), South Africa (History), British Empire, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Australian Politics, Australian History, Anti-Apartheid Movement, South African history, 20th century British political history, History of Communism, Anti-communism, History of Marxist Thought, Communist Party of Great Britain, Anti-Colonialism, and Australian Communism and Anti Communism
By the end of World War Two, the Australian far left was in a buoyant mood. The Soviet Union was held in high esteem, European colonies around the world were declaring independence, and with some 23,000 members in 1944 and an ability to... more
By the end of World War Two, the Australian far left was in a buoyant mood. The Soviet Union was held in high esteem, European colonies around the world were declaring independence, and with some 23,000 members in 1944 and an ability to exert control over at least 40% of Australia’s unions, the previously marginal CPA had become a force to be reckoned with. At the height of this momentary euphoria, the Party’s Assistant Secretary Richard ‘Dick’ Dixon wrote a short pamphlet entitled Immigration and the White Australia Policy, which captured the Party’s partial awakening to the issues of race and migration—openly attacking the White Australia policy for the first time. Yet, Dixon’s pamphlet straddled a difficult course – challenging the labour movement’s long history of opposing coloured immigration, while arguing to retain the wages and conditions that ‘white Australia’ maintained.