Our History
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,...
David Blunkett and Bernard Crick: The Labour Party’s Aims and Values (1988)
In 1985, the Labour Party National Executive Committee commissioned a statement of ‘Principles and Beliefs’. The working party appointed to draft the document apparently...
Anthony Wright: Socialisms: Theories and Practices (1986)
At the time Wright wrote this book, he was a lecturer in political studies at Birmingham University. In 1979, he had written G D...