Public Service Announcement: the nation Colombia features two of the letter o and none of the letter u.

Call for Papers! Grounded Futures: the poetics and politics of soil in a changing world. (Special issue of New Formations journal ). jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/cal…

Curious about how and why the language of infrastructure is taking centre stage in UK politics again? Check out Dom Davies The Broken Promise of Infrastructure - from cutting 'red tape' to the promises of technological solutions, we've been here before. lwbooks.co.uk/product/the-br…

We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland. Discover the winners ⬇️ englishpen.org/posts/news/pen…

Where is the media coverage on this?

We at Twentieth Century Communism are very sad to hear of the passing of Marika Sherwood, a pioneering historian of communism, anti-colonialism and pan-Africanism. Amongst other writings, her book for Lawrence Wishart Books on Claudia Jones was a ground-breaking work. lwbooks.co.uk/product/claudi…

Twentieth Century Communism journal have started to publish advance access articles from forthcoming issues, now accessible with a digital subscription. Four advance access articles are currently available from the Lawrence Wishart Books website here: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026-i…

On 3 March 1985, the Miners' Strike ended in Britain after nearly a year on the picket line. This article by Gavin Bowd looks at French-British communist solidarity during the 1984-85 strike, comparing it solidarity expressed in the 1920s and 1940s. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2022-i…

When the show 'Benefits Street' was produced, a poll showed that the public thought 41% of the welfare budget went to people who were unemployed; the real figure was 2.3%. Politicians and journalists don't just respond to public opinion — they actively shape it.

The 1952 McCarran-Walter Act was previously used to deport left-wing radicals from the US during the Cold War, including Trinidadian-born CPUSA member, Claudia Jones. Dr. Denise Lynn wrote about the deportation of Jones for the Lawrence Wishart Books blog here: lwbooks.co.uk/deporting-blac…

🎟️ Tickets now live! 📚 We’re thrilled to announce our 8th bookshelf cluster: To Be Loved Is To Be Remembered - Archiving for Liberation, in partnership with Lawrence Wishart Books Lawrence Wishart Books, with host Isabella Kajiwara 🧵 below with more details!

When a country commits the largest child massacre in its history and the media doesn't bother to report this, you have a broken and complicit media

Marking the Stuart Hall Foundation’s 10th anniversary, we are delighted to announce our 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground. Join us to collectively consider the role of difference in broadening the intellectual and creative scope of social justice movements working today.

DWP is using a sleight of hand in its disability benefit cuts impact assessment: Actual increase in poverty is closer to 400,000, not the 250,000 in the impact assessment. Quick thread explaining why. 🧵1/7

Scope Labour claims this is about getting people back into work. But Pip is not an out-of-work benefit. In many cases, payments help disabled people travel to their jobs. Making it harder for disabled people to access benefits will push them out of employment and into poverty.

Last year we showed how more than 60% of the donations accepted by Streeting were from those with links to private health. He has since bagged a further £58,000 from private health care interests. goodlawproject.org/health-secreta…

Happy publication day to Onyeka Igwe! 💐June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive is the fourth book in our Radical Black Women series, in partnership with BCA. It traces a path through the holdings of JGPACA using its ephemera and oral history interviews.

Including interviews and archival materials, Onyeka Igwe's "June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive" is now available via Lawrence Wishart Books. lwbooks.co.uk/product/the-ma…

Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open. The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture? Sign up for free via our website: stuarthallfoundation.org/events/

What happens in a local council when people seen as 'right wing' populists are elected? / Lawrence Wishart Books Soundings Journal Populism Updates LGANews Solace LGIU What pressures do council officers face? What options do they have? lwbooks.co.uk/product/on-bur…