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 […]
People, Poetry and Politics – the Novels of Don Bannister
Don Bannister was a founder of the group of social psychologists who have developed ‘personal construct theory’. In his later years he wrote a series of novels. My friend Trevor Butt, a colleague of Don’s in the 1970s and 80s, asked me to give a paper on Don’s novels at a special conference in honour […]
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 […]
Riot and Revolution: The Politics of an Inner City
Article in Revolutionary Socialism Winter 1981-2