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September 9, 2019September 9, 2019mbarker2012

Letter to Socialism Today responding to Judy Beishon’s review of Professor Robert Plomin’s Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Socialism Today, June 2019).

August 18, 2019October 29, 2019mbarker2012

Anti-Imperialist Films

July 26, 2019July 26, 2019mbarker2012

Combatting Surveillance Capitalism: An Orwellian Lesson in History from Ford to Google

December 28, 2018December 28, 2018mbarker2012

Alice Walker’s Dangerous Liaisons With David Icke

December 16, 2018October 6, 2019mbarker2012

Old Wine in New Bottles: George Monbiot’s “New Politics for An Age of Crisis”

December 15, 2018December 15, 2018mbarker2012

The Left Case Against the EU: Book Review

September 27, 2018September 28, 2018mbarker2012

Everybody’s Reading

July 7, 2017July 8, 2017mbarker2012

Visions of Bena Balunda: A Documentary History of the Black Power Movement in Leicester 1970-72

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016mbarker2012

Climate of Fear: “The Battle for British Islam,” a Critical Review

July 1, 2016August 27, 2016mbarker2012

The Corbyn Fightback: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics

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