Tom Williams
Tom Williams is tutor in trade union studies and an editor for NS.
Twitter: @shirleymush
Articles by Tom Williams:
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Educate, Agitate, Affirm
Six important New Socialist pieces.
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Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right
The former Southampton number seven has repeatedly disgraced himself with a series of public pronouncements. How does this connect with the way he played football?
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The Culture War in Football, Football in the Culture War
Euro '2020' saw the culture war explode into football. The England squad have shown us how to fight, but they can't win it for us. It's time for fans to become militant anti-racists.
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Bigger than Greed: The European Super League Fiasco and Capitalism in Football
The European Super League has led many on the left to see an opportunity for socialist argument - there is indeed an opportunity but it lies in more serious exploration of capitalism and football.
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Defend The Community Organising Unit: Activists into Organisers
Powerlessness is the root of so many of the problems faced by ordinary people. Community organising can challenge this.
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A Plea to Wavering Comrades: Beware the Labour Right
Keir Starmer looks set to win & Rebecca Long-Bailey’s campaign has stuttered, but the left must not pass up a historic opportunity to transform the party, & resist the inevitable attempts to do so from the right.
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The Fight of Our Lives
Why thousands who had never taken part in political activism before are campaigning for Labour.
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A Kinder, Gentler Politics? Building better discussion on the left—a New Socialist discussion at TWT
Join us at TWT 2019 to explore how we can better handle contradictions as socialists.
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End the Oppression of Pedagogy! Why Southampton Transformed matters.
For political education to work, it must connect theory to what is local, material, and concrete. Southampton Transformed is one of a number of regional events aiming to do this.