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Welcome to Lawrence & Wishart
Recent Publications:
Soundings
33 Convivial Cultures explores how we can live together in more convivial ways.
This includes addressing widespread feelings of disconnectedness and alienation
as well as arguing for a more humane and democratic politics and culture.
More information on Soundings.
Read
a selection of recent Soundings
articles.
The
Good Society: Compass programme for renewal 1
In this first instalment of the three-volume Compass Programme for Renewal,
the authors give a startling picture of the reality of the UK today, and provide
clear directions on how to transform society for the better. This book covers
the major issues of contemporary politics, ranging across issues such as poverty,
time and ageing.
Poems
from Spain: British and Irish International Brigaders on the Spanish Civil
War Edited by Jim Jump 'the most moving, inspirational collection
of poetry I have read in many years … What is it about the International Brigaders
that makes their memory and the recall of their political humanity so relevant
today? Courage, a loyalty to the best within us, a political imagination that
thinks with the heart: the list is long. These qualities shine from this collection,
which ought to be required reading in every school.' John Pilger Read
two poems
Our
Flag Stays Red Phil Piratin New introduction by John Callow. A unique
account of communist and anti-fascist activity in London's East End in the
1930s and 1940s, including the famous 'Battle of Cable Street' in 1936 - another
70th anniversary. Photos
Labour
Legends and Russian Gold
(Part 1 of Bolshevism and the British Left)
Kevin Morgan
Shows that
the problem of party funding has been around for as long as political parties.
Morgan describes how the Labour Party has always struggled to fund itself
from its own resources – in the early days it frequently relied on wealthy
backers, as well as money from Russia. See
SPECIAL
OFFERS
‘Bolshevism and
the British Left is an exciting project that will make an important contribution
to British history in the 20th century.’
Eric Hobsbawm
The
Webbs and Soviet Communism (Part
2 of Bolshevism and the British Left)
Kevin Morgan
Explores how
Beatrice and Sidney Webb came to regard Stalin’s Russia as a ‘new civilisation’
and the hope of the world.
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‘a monumental work, where Morgan’s
painstaking scholarship, clarity of voice and eye compel us to visit this
central legacy anew. This is a major event.’ Peter Beilharz
The
whole creature: Complexity, biosemiotics and the evolution of culture
Wendy Wheeler
Drawing on the new field of
complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics, Wendy Wheeler argues that – far
from being opposed to nature – culture is the way that nature has evolved
in human beings. See
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‘This
book provides some really useful pathways to an important truth – that culture
is natural … Wendy Wheeler helps us to break through these barriers and to
see that we are indeed Whole Creatures.’ Mary Midgley
newformations
59
On Borders and Discos is devoted to two major, but very different interventions
into the politics of culture. The first focuses on current work by the philosopher
Étienne Balibar on the role of borders and frontiers in enforcing conceptual
as well as physical limits upon political democracy. The second section addresses
the continuing importance of Richard Dyer’s 1979 gay left article ‘In Defence of Disco’.
Critical
Psychology 17
Critical Psychology in Africa
Contributors explore some of the experiences
of trauma of people living in various parts of the African continent. They
all begin from the premise that colonialism has had an inestimable impact
on the lives and experiences of the people living here.
Anarchist Studies Vol 14 no 1
Special issue on French secularism and the
'veil'. Contributors include Sharif Gemie, Neil Macmaster, Harold C. Barclay,
Georges Ubbiali, Beltrán Roca, Paul Chambers, Ton Cahill and Susan
L. Brown.
