Polemics and analysis

This is the third of four brief selections of my writing published on Luna17 and Counterfire this year.

The posts here all engage with contentious issues of one sort or another: from whether socialist newspapers are still viable to problems with the National Secular Society, from the limits of the Occupy movement's most famous slogan to the political degeneration of Christopher Hitchens.

A mass movement we can learn from: the record of Stop the War (February)

Socialist newspapers: old wine in old bottles? (July)

David Starkey, immigration and the 'new atheism' (August)

Renewing the radical left (September)

We are we the 99% - analysing a magnificent slogan (November)

Christopher Hitchens: an alternative view (December)

Also see Parts One and Two in this round-up: An extraordinary year in the Arab world and Cuts, trade unions and the movement

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