James Heartfield

A panel event on 30 November 2016 at the London School of Economics. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Adam Booth (writer and activist with Socialist Appeal and the International Marxist Tendency) James Heartfield (Sp!ked / Author of ‘An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War’) Patrick Neveling (SOAS Development Studies, Utrecht University Cultural Anthropology) Paul Demarty (Weekly Worker / CPGB) Description The Left has for over a generation – for more than 40 years, since the crisis of 1973 – placed its hopes in the Democratic and Labour Parties to reverse or slow neoliberal capitalism – the move to trans-national trade agreements, the movement of capital and labor, and austerity. [Read More]

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Hannah Fair, climate justice activist, doctoral student, Red Pepper writer James Heartfield, author of “Green Capitalism” Ru Raynor, anti-aviation activist at Grow Heathrow Wood Roberdeau, Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths Description The awareness of a growing planetary climate crisis in the 1990s appeared to coincide with a change: the final collapse of the traditional forces of the Old Left (communism and social democracy) and the consolidation of what many characterize as neoliberalism. [Read More]

A book talk by James Heartfield on his book, ‘An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War’, held at the Inaugural European Conference of the Platypus Affiliated Society on Saturday, July 19, 2014 at Goldsmiths College, London.

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Powerpoint slides used in presentation: UnpatrioticHistoryoftheSecondWorldWar

A panel event held on April 5, 2014 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Bill Barclay  James Heartfield (audacity.org) Mel Rothenberg (Chicago Political Economy Group) Moderated by Alex Gonopolskiy (Platypus London). Description With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Communist states the world has witnessed the unchallenged restoration of capitalism. [Read More]

A panel held at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jon Bekken (Anarcho-Syndicalist Review) James Heartfield (audacity.org) William Pelz (Elgin Community College) Description The First International (1864 - 1876), or International Workingmen’s Association, was founded in the long shadow of 1848, amidst Polish and Italian national liberation movements and the upheaval of the American Civil War. [Read More]

A panel held on April 4, 2014 at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists James Heartfield (audacity.org) Tarek Shalaby (Revolutionary Socialists) Description I became a Trotskyist in 1933. The theory of state capitalism is a development of Trotsky’s position… But at the end of the Second World War, the perspectives that Trotsky had put forward were not realized. [Read More]

A panel discussion with audience Q & A on the problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today. Held on Wednesday 13 June, 7pm at the University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Clare Solomon (co-editor of Springtime: The New Student Rebellions (2011); President of the University Of London Union in 2010) James Heartfield (active in extra-parliamentary Left for thirty years; author of The ‘Death of the Subject” Explained (2002), and the forthcoming Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (2012)). [Read More]