Ian Parker

9 articles attributed to this name

Socialist Resistance did not print a byline field. The names here were read out of the articles themselves, from the paper's own house styles — “… writes Andy Stowe”, “Dave Kellaway explains…”, a name standing alone at the top. That works for about a third of the archive and it can misread: a name may belong to someone quoted rather than the author. Treat these as a finding aid, not as an attribution — the article itself is the authority. A few, where the author has told us directly, are recorded rather than inferred.

13 December 2020 · Ian Parker · Britain, Women
Social Care: Zeros and Sums
We face a crisis in social care intensified by COVID-19, but, Ian Parker argues, protest movements and radical organisations are coming together to mobilise for change. The struggle for soci…
27 September 2019 · Ian Parker · Reviews · 1 comment
Left Hooked on Twitter
Ian Parker reviews Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine , lured by birdsong into the pit of hell Mass social media, with Twitter as one of its key platforms, presents itself as the ultim…
16 November 2018 · Ian Parker · Indigenous struggles, Latin America, Peru, Reviews
Indigenous and International Struggle
Ian Parker reviews Derek Wall’s new book Hugo Blanco: A Revolutionary for Life , just published by Merlin Press with Resistance Books. Hugo Blanco is an inspiration to revolutionary ecosocia…
9 November 2017 · Ian Parker · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Green and Red Rules for Radicals
Ian Parker reviews Derek Wall’s new book Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals , just published by Pluto Press Of the main complaints made against ‘ecosocialist’ politics, attempts to combine R…
18 September 2017 · Ian Parker · Black struggles, Fourth international, Our History, Reviews
CLR James film feast
Ian Parker reviews Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and Works of C.L.R. James This film was released in April last year, and has been doing the rounds in meetings organised by differe…
31 January 2015 · Ian Parker · 9 comments
INTERSECTIONALITY: LESSONS FROM RECENT LEFT HISTORY
The crisis over sexual violence inside the SWP provoked an attempt by some of those involved to try to explain what happened then, and since in some of the new organisations that emerged fro…
1 May 2013 · Ian Parker
The Great University Open-Cast Mines
Education for competition Ian Parker reviews Andrew McGettigan’s book The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education (ISBN: 978-0-7453-3293-2), published by P…
4 September 2012 · Ian Parker · 6 comments
Psychology and Marxism in Mexico
Ian Parker reports from a very unusual conference: Marx famously argued (against the view that ‘religious essence’ could be resolved into and thereby explained by ‘human essence’) that the h…
22 November 2010 · Ian Parker
Good times in Berlin
The first NSK Citizen’s Congress took place in Berlin 21-23 October writes Ian Parker . This is not the place to rehearse again the already well-known trajectory of Neue Slowenische Kunst in…