Our History
Our international History 16
John Pickering, John Campbell and John Francis Bray: American egalitarians
The middle of the 19th century in America witnessed considerable writing on economic theory, much...
OUR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 15
Albert Brisbane: American Utopian Socialist
Brisbane was the main promoter in America of the ideas of the French utopian, Charles Fourier. Born in New York...
Our International History – 14
Frances Wright: American Owenite Utopian
Frances Wright, often referred to as Fanny Wright, was born in Dundee. Brought up in a radical family, she visited...
OUR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 13
American Forerunners of Marx: Langton Byllesby and Thomas Skidmore
Langton Byllesby was an American follower of Robert Owen. Born in Philadelphia in 1789, he worked...
Our International History 12
Louis Blanc: Republican Socialist
Louis Blanc was born in Madrid in 1811, where his father was an inspector general of finance for Joseph Bonaparte during...
Our International History – 11
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Mutualist and Federalist
Proudhon was born in Besancon in 1809. His father was a brewer. In 1827, Proudhon became an apprentice in the...
Our International History 10
Flora Tristan and Jeanne Deroin: Socialist Feminists
Flora Tristan was born in Paris in 1803, her father being a colonel in the Spanish navy and...
Our international history 9
French Socialists and Communists before 1848: Leroux, Buchez, Pecqueur and Dezamy
The period between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 saw on outpouring of socialistic...
Henri Saint-Simon: first utopian socialist?
Duncan Bowie continues his series on international socialist theoreticians.
Socialism and Communism in the French Revolution
The first in a new series of Chartist columns on international socialist theoreticians, following on from the Our History series of 100 columns on British radicals and socialists
New Worlds for Old: Chartist Manifesto (2006)
This manifesto was published in Chartist November/December 2006
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
1. Capitalism is still the dominant global economic system. Laissez faire capitalism only...
Tony Blair: The Third Way (1998)
It is perhaps open to question why Tony Blair’s pamphlet is included in a series entitled ‘Our History’ as most Chartist readers will not...
Life on the left
Stan Newens recounts a life on the left while championing the case of the Palestinians in conversation with Mike Davis.
Hilary Wainwright: Arguments for a New Left (1994)
Wainwright is a socialist feminist and political activist and is currently editor of Red Pepper. A sociology researcher at Durham University and then the...
Paul Hirst: Associative Democracy (1994)
Paul Hirst was a sociologist and professor of social theory at Birkbeck College, London. In the 1970s and 1980s he was a leading advocate...
Michael Meacher: Diffusing Power (1992)
Michael Meacher was MP for Oldham for 45 years from 1970 until his death in 2015. Before becoming an MP he was an academic,...