Tom Gann
Founding editor
Twitter: @Tom_Gann
Articles by Tom Gann:
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Gaza is Free and Does Not Bargain
The statements of the Resistance groups are a valuable source of knowledge about what's happening in Palestine. So why aren’t British journalists paying attention?
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Editor’s Letter
Updates on what we’ve been up to and the current situation with New Socialist.
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“Holding the public to ransom”: the strategy and tactics of Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil's strategic approach shows us that popular power already exists. What would it mean for the left to take this seriously?
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I Would Simply Blow Up A Pipeline: the Left and Just Stop Oil
In their hostility to disruptive action, left intellectuals have much more in common with the authoritarian centrism of Keir Starmer than with actual militants.
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Not Taking Refuge in Helplessness: the ‘new weapons’ of Just Stop Oil
Introducing a short series of texts theorising the emergence of Just Stop Oil and the new climate militancy.
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Centrism is the Suppression of Politics
The grown-ups are back in the room: it's time to put all those silly hopes and dreams away.
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The History of New Socialist: Part One
The history of New Socialist as a way of telling the history of the last few years of the British left. Part one considers "the proto New Socialist".
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Editors' Letter
Updates on what we've been up to and previewing TWT 2022.
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No More Cruel Optimism, Leaving the Labour Party
The capitulation of left MPs over the question of NATO is the final straw.
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Comrades in Arms with the Web of Life: A Conversation with Jason W. Moore
The Marxist geographer talks with Tom Gann and josie sparrow about world ecology, Marxist beef, and what it means to be in solidarity with oppressed and devalued natures.
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Editors' Letter
Updates on what's been going on at New Socialist, and launching #NS500, our subscription drive.
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What if this is the beginning, not the end? An interview with Owen Hatherley.
The left's most prolific author on Red Metropolis, London's municipal socialism, class recomposition and its political effects, and the influence of William Morris.
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Serve the People? Some questions on tenants' union consciousness.
In the first of three pieces, Tom Gann and josie sparrow reflect on some of the possibilities and limits of tenants' organising.
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Introducing Bad New Times
What are 'bad new times'? What do they mean for New Socialist?
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Discussing Johnsonism
What can we learn from Johnson’s spell as Mayor of London? What are the ruling class strategies of the Johnson project? How does it stand in an international context?
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Introducing Raymond Williams
In the 1980s Raymond Williams was the thinker of the relation between the conjunctural and the organic. This grounded his position on electoral and political strategy.
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Introducing Zheng Chaolin
Tom and josie consider the relationship between Zheng Chaolin’s life, his politics, and his poetry.
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Abolish Silicon Valley: Tom Gann interviews Wendy Liu
Wendy Liu discusses her political journey from ardent Silicon Valley Kool Aid drinker to scathing critic of the entire industry (and capitalism), as documented in her new book 'Abolish Silicon Valley'.
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Fuck Business: Johnsonism, Hegemony and the Popular Classes
No election can be won without significant support from within the popular classes. Johnsonism represents the hegemony of the most reactionary fractions of capital because of their capacity to command this support.
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To Each According to their Needs! On Labour's Universal Basic Services report.
John McDonnell's UBS report offers a potential framework for a revolution in the ways we conceive of and meet our needs.
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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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"A Robert Byron of the Left"? An Interview with Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley discusses "The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space" and Tribune magazine.
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Editors' Selection 2018
Some of our editors' favourite pieces we've published in 2018
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Open Selection and Socialist Democracy
The democratisation of candidate selection opens up questions and possibilities that are much wider than factional advance
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The Bolsheviks Dared: Interview with Lars T. Lih on Lenin as Theorist and Strategist of Hegemony
As part of our series on the October Revolution, New Socialist interviewed Lars T. Lih, author of several books on Lenin and the Revolution.
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Labour's New Economics Conference: Part Seven, Jeremy Corbyn's Speech
This is the seventh (and final) part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.
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Labour's New Economics Conference: Part Six, Plenary Session
This is the sixth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.
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Labour's New Economics Conference: Part Five, Local Democratic Economic Strategies
The fifth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.
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Labour's New Economics Conference: Part Four, Co-Operatives Session
The fourth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.
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Labour's New Economics Conference: Part One, Introductory Session
The first part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.
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Social Murder, Productivity Crisis & Irresponsible Technology Policy: The 2017 Budget
Wednesday’s budget was more striking for the economic indicators and forecasts produced by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility than for any of its specific policies.
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Interview with Mark Perryman on "The Corbyn Effect"
Tom Gann spoke to Mark Perryman about the legacy of Stuart Hall, Labour modernity, possibilities for radical organisation, cultural politics and more.
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Corbynism's Ming Vase Period? Contextualising and Opposing the Line on Immigration
It is necessary to criticise Jeremy Corbyn’s recent comments on immigration, which are not only a problem in themselves but indicative of a general direction of the project which needs to be resisted.
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A Million Member Party, Concluding Thoughts: Democratisation, Delivering Consequences, Disalienation
The pieces collected in the A Million Member Party series show the range of ideas for how the capacities of a Party with significant numbers of enthused members can be made use of for socialist advance.
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Understanding and Building on the Manifesto
The General Election result not only settles the question of the Labour leadership but also of the broad contours of the programme, at least in terms of social and economic policy, for the next election.