Sensuous materialism – – an emotionally charged type of marxism
Sensuous materialism The Transformation page, admirably edited by Michael Edwards for the impressive openDemocracy website, kindly published my journalistic effort (linked above) to promote an idea I had for promoting a version of Marxism which has, I think, been deeply buried. It came to me in the late 2010s while writing the concluding chapters of […]
David Oluwale – was he a secular martyr?
417414_1_En_9_Chapter_OnlinePDF (publishers’ proof of my chapter on David Oluwale) I’m Secretary to the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) and I spend a lot of my time reminding all those who are interested of the fate of a man who stowed away on a ship leaving Lagos in 1949, and who was killed by two policemen […]
Revolutionary violence and jihadi Islamism
ON REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE: INITIATED BY THE LEFT, OR BY ARMED ISLAMISTS Terrorism in the name of Islam has dominated the news for at least fifteen years now. We’ve had 9/11 [2001], 7/7 [2005] and with the events in Paris we now have 7/1 and 9/1 [2015]. (This article refers to the recent murder by self-styled […]
Islamism and Terror – a Western way of doing politics
This chapter in an edited collection sets out in some detail the history of that tendency within Islam that has adopted an explicitly political strategy in order to introduce the Islamic ummah across the globe. This tendency is usually referred to as ‘Islamism’ to distinguish it from the majority view that Islam is system of belief […]