James Turley reviews Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds) Red planets: Marxism and science fiction Pluto, 2009, pp293, £19.99 When English literature departments first arose in Anglo-Saxon academia, their purpose was in some ways relatively well defined. The bourgeoisie, so its political allies in the aristocracy and flunkies among the intelligentsia argued, was culturally bereft; worse, ...
James Turley brings down some false hares raised during the crisis over MPs' scams If any MP had entertained the naive hope that the expenses crisis was going to blow over with a few well chosen platitudes, they have now been decisively disappointed. On May 19, the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, announced his ...
Nationalise drug companies under democratic control, says James Turley The British media has managed to get itself into yet another incredible panic over a viral contagion. Having stubbornly failed to be devastated by severe acute respiratory ...
The optimistic notes sounded by world leaders after the G20 summit ring hollow, says James Turley Amid energetic protests, the G20 group of world leaders - representatives from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, along ...
In this article James Turley responds to a letter from Eben Marks criticising Communist Students in the Weekly Worker. James goes on to argue that students have an antagonistic relationship with college authorities... The campus and the state Making overtures to the student population has been a standard feature of leftwing activism for many decades - while ...