Index
Ablitt, Keith
269, 275, 278n83
abortion activism
276
academic realism
425
accessibility
19, 35, 268, 285, 368–70, 439
See also ‘FOG Index’ analysis method
active editorships
199–210
See also Jacques, Martin
activist/academic divide
339
Adam Smith Institute
164
See also Smith, Adam
advertising
about
230–33
costs
221
ideological aspects of
230
importance of
282
inserts
283
Marxism Today and
231–33, 278–79, 282, 283, 307–8, 324
in periodicals
257
radical left/working class publications and
230–32
affluent workers/embourgeoisiement thesis
49
African National Congress
283
agency
10
agitation
23, 26
agitprop (term)
23n28, 326
Alce, Julie
382
Ali, Tariq
435
Alternative Economic Strategy
60, 122
alternative/oppositional media
145, 155, 199, 445–46
See also socialist/radical left publications
Althusser, Louis
154
Andrews, Geoff
73, 85n298, 246, 342n104
Anglo-Marxist humanism
379
ANL (Anti-Nazi League)
192
Anti-Clause 28 Campaign
173
Arena (cultural journal)
33, 46, 210
argumentation (rhetoric term)
19
Ascherson, Neal
333
Ash, William
381
audiences
222–23, 269, 299, 306, 431, 457
Aune, James
364–65, 405
authoritarian populism
116–18, 129–30, 133, 144–45, 180
autonomy (term)
173
Baker, Alan
309
Barthes, Roland
423n208
base/superstructure model
441
Bateman, Paul
280
Battle of Orgreave
181
BDA (Broad Democratic Alliance)
Marxism Today and
185, 291, 336, 389
membership of
179n337
popular politics and
178–79, 183
in publications
291
traditionalists and
63
working-class institutions and
184
Beardsley, Sally
243
Bellamy, Ron
388
Benn, Tony
121, 122, 272–73, 277, 345, 355
Bennett, Mick
34
Benton, Sarah
30, 61–62, 70, 208–9
Bernal, J.D.
46, 211
Blair, Tony
134, 182
Bloomfield, Jon
61, 336
Bollinger, Stefan
154
Bolshevism
20, 23–24, 193, 229, 313
Bolton, George
309
Bonnett, Kevin
126
book publishing
256, 335–37
Brennan, Irene
63n196, 86, 204, 211, 214, 286
The British Press: A Manifesto
156
British Road to Socialism (manifesto)
38, 56, 57, 62, 92, 205
British Survey of Attitudes
132
Bromley, Simon
126
Brown, Jan
247, 276, 278n82, 278n84, 280, 281
Brunt, Ros
96, 216
bureaucratic statism
119
Burns, Emile
34, 36, 38, 211
Burt, Les
47
Callaghan, James
107, 410
Callaghan, Jim
164
Callaghan, John
51
Callinicos, Alex
443n4
Campbell, Beatrix
57, 77, 244, 299, 306, 341
Campbell, J.R.
51
Canada
15–16
Capstick, Ken
309
caricatures
280, 430–31
Carritt, Gabriel
213
Central Books
218, 228, 231, 240, 308, 313
Central Committee Outfitters
229
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
417
The Centre for Policy Studies
164
Chadwick, Jon
244
Challenge (magazine)
30
Channel Five section
191, 244, 291, 295–96, 303–4
Charter 88 campaign
173
Chater, Tony
56, 71, 72, 388
Chater group
81, 82
Chater-Costello attack
75–76
Chinese distribution
315n11
choice (term)
173
Christian Democratic Party
61
Christian-Marxist dialogue
53, 434
See also Marxism
Chun, Linn
453–55
CIPD report
40, 41, 42–43, 64, 68–70
circulation
49–50, 81, 199, 313–14, 316, 321
cities
174n317
City Limits (listings weekly)
244
civil society
141–44, 168, 176
Clarke, John
136
Clarke, Kenneth
348
class consciousness
114
class politics
59, 82, 116
Class Politics: An Answer to Its Critics (book)
86
Clause IV
49
climate change
174n320
Cloud, Dana C.
364–65
Cogito (theoretical journal)
30
Cohen, Gerry
237
Cohen, Jack
54n154, 211–12, 380
Cohen, Margaret
376
Collet’s (bookshop)
231
Collins, Henry
46
Comedia model
11, 258, 313, 325, 363, 442
Comment (party review)
30, 37n70, 67, 69–70
See also Benton, Sarah
common sense
overview
134–40
communist journalism and
368
critique of
126–30
etymology of
137–38
false consciousness and
144n181
Gramsci on
137
Hall on
142–43, 147, 151
Thatcherism and
142–43, 146, 151
unity/division on the left and
430–31
various thinkers on
146
Williams on
181
communicative crisis
18
communism
364, 414
The Communist (party paper)
26
Communist Design Group
30
Communist International
18
Communist journalism
367–68
Communist parties
18, 203
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
audiences and
344
Central Books and
313
culture and
189
design aspects
318–19
editors and
200
education tradition within
339–40
Executive Committee
21–22
factions
57
Gorbachev and
94
jargon/specialised vocabularies
387
managerialism of
57
Marxism within
38, 58
membership growth
50–51, 79
The Morning Star and
85
National Party Congress (1965)
51
organisational practice and political projects
21–22, 25, 205, 443
party-press relationship
90
readership and
85, 323
revision of the British Road to Socialism
50
roles of each
344, 443
separation of
454
specialist committees
338
traditionalist/reformist tendencies within
57–58
views within
435
workplace politics and
59
Young Communist League
30
See also British Road to Socialism (manifesto); Farleigh Press; Johnstone, Monty; New Communist Party
Communist Party of Great Britain, print media
audiences and circulation of
26–27, 28, 33
financing of
218
as organisational base
313
overview of publications printed
25–26
party paper
25–26
relationship with Marxist Quarterly
43
rhetoric/writing styles of
364
The Star and
84
theoretical journal
26
See also Marxist Quarterly (journal)
Communist populism
188, 190
Communist Review (periodical)
33, 34, 36, 39
Communist rhetoric
366–68, 373–75
Communist University of London
54, 231, 340, 418
community policing
275
compensation
206, 225, 243–44
Congress Truth (bulletin)
82
Connor, Dan
213
consent
117–18, 129, 134, 137, 145, 151
constitutional authoritarianism
129, 197
consumer magazines
281n97
content analysis
359
contradictions
116–17, 120
contributors
331–35
Cook, Dave
61, 62–63, 70, 187, 306, 316
Corbyn, Jeremy
109n31, 130n127, 457
Cornforth, Maurice
38, 46, 47, 211
correctness (in style)
378, 395, 397, 426
Costello, Mick
73, 81
counter hegemony
154n223, 455
cover design
249–50, 264, 265, 270–78, 306–7
coverage
46, 49, 50, 80, 182–83, 348–60
CPHG (Communist Party Historians’ Group, CPGB)
178, 188
CPJ (Commission on Party Journals, CPGB)
34, 35, 37–38, 43
See also Palme Dutt, Rajani
Crawford, Joan
281
crisis music
192
Crowley, David
274
cultural Marxism
188
cultural materialism
7, 8–9, 15, 146–47, 365, 446–47
cultural politics
192, 193, 417, 458
cultural populism
139, 172, 175, 188, 197–98, 446
cultural production
155
cultural studies
base/superstructure
125
common sense
134
critiques of
136, 157n230
false consciousness in
145
Hall’s role in
150
popular politics and
177
reception of Gramsci
140
research in 1980s
196
See also academic realism
culture
176, 189, 190
Curran, James
283n100
Currie, David
62
Czechoslovakia
52
Daily Express (newspaper)
118
The Daily Herald (daily paper)
27
Daily Mail (tabloid)
118
The Daily Worker (daily paper)
27–29, 33, 39, 50, 52, 245
See also The Morning Star (daily paper)
Daniel, Iu.
50
Davidson, Alastair
142, 145–46
Davis, Mary
57
Davis, Tricia
306
Davison, Sally
302
Daylight (periodical)
34, 36–37, 46
Debray, Régis
16–17
decentralisation of organisation/production
169
democracy
121, 127, 167–68
democratic centralism
20–22, 24–25, 85, 93, 167
democratic impulse
139
democratisation of media access
164
Desai, Radhika
163
design process
see production process
designer socialism
193, 258
designers
258
Devine, Pat
60, 62
difference (value)
173
Dimitrov, Georgi
410
discursive turn
149
Discussion (theoretical journal)
31
discussion groups
337, 342–43
‘Discussion’ section (of Marxism Today)
296–99
disposable literature
23n24
dissent
24–25
distribution
318
distribution (of Marxism Today)
448
Dobb, Maurice
46, 211
Dunman, Jack
381
Dutt, R.P.
34, 51
Dyer, Richard
244
Eagleton, Terry
419
Eastern European revolutions
299
Economic Committee
338
economism
60n183, 123, 124
Eden, Anthony
127
Edgar, David
215, 216, 385
editing process
206
editorial board
44–45, 66, 210–11
editorial content
292
editorial contents
292
editorial sections
284–93
See also features
editorial working group
242
editors
assistants
225–26
Communist Party of Great Britain leadership bodies and
200
of Daily Worker
39
editorial board of Marxism Today
66
editorial control
40, 55
letters-to-the-editor
83
of Marxism Today
44
Marxism Today editorial board and
211
of print media
29
roles/styles of
200, 201
See also Benton, Sarah; Burns, Emile; Chater, Tony; Gollan, John; Jacques, Martin; Lewis, John; Matthews, George; Townsend, Sally; Turner, Julian
editorships
199–210
editorships, passive and active
199–210
education
291
Egelnick, Max
375, 387, 395–98
election data/results
131, 132, 133
elective dictatorship
129
electoral politics
174
electoral responses
148
electoral strategy
148
Electrical Trades Union
51
electronic media
19
embourgeoisiement thesis/affluent workers
49
encoding/decoding model
135n145, 138, 151
English magazine design
259, 263
environmental movements
174
esoteric Marxist features
285
Esterson, Simon
270, 278n85
Eurocommunism
61–64, 371
Europe
15–16
Euro-Red (journal)
64
Fabian Society
320
The Face (periodical)
258
Facing Up to the Future (document)
95, 97
factional activity
41–42, 57–58
fake news
380n62
Falber, Reuben
54n154, 56, 237, 241, 375
false consciousness
132–33, 144n181, 145, 196
Fares Fair
187
Farleigh Pres
238–39
Farleigh Press
223, 234, 236, 238–39, 253, 449
fascist/racist organisations
192
features
esoteric Marxist features
285
legitimation/apologist features
285
overview
285–93
pagination
287
political-analytical features
285
topics of
288–90
feminism
57–58, 77n263, 83, 183–85
Feminist Review (periodical)
283
finances
228–29
finances of
217–30, 231
Financial Times (newspaper)
162
financing
217, 218
Fine, Ben
86, 306
first-personal plural mode of address
422–23
‘Focus’ (news section)
248
‘Focus’ (news section of Marxism Today)
248
Focus (review)
84
‘FOG Index’ analysis method
368–70, 395
Fogarasi, Adalbert
18, 366–67
Foot, Michael
277, 297
Ford, Anna
341
Fordism
see post-Fordism
format/layout/design changes
267
formatting
260–70
‘Forward March’ debate
297n123
Foster, John
86n303, 214
Francis, Hywel
309
freedom
139–40
French Revolution
16, 22–23
Friedman, Milton
119
Frith, Simon
273
From Trotsky to Tito (book)
45n106
fundraising
309
Gaitskell, Hugh
166
Galas, Alexander
111
Gang of Four
130n127, 420
Gardiner, Jean
213
Gay Times (magazine)
312n2
gendered demographics
326
Gill, Ken
57
Gillick, Victoria
341
Glasgow University Media Group
162
GLC
180, 186–87
GLEB (Greater London Council’s Enterprise Board)
170
Goldsmiths’ College
128n118
Gollan, John
38, 45, 47, 54, 200–202, 374
good sense
see common sense
Gorbachev, Mikhail
94, 193, 277
Gott, Richard
344, 357, 359
Grahl, John
62
Gramsci, Antonio
on civil society
142–43
common sense
137–40
cultural circle
212
Fordism in work of
169
Hall’s use of
108, 144, 377n45
hegemony
5, 9, 108, 137, 140–41, 153–54, 155, 193, 377
ideology
144, 154
influence of
8, 9, 61
integral state
141n169
on intellectual/moral leadership
133
language in
367
on Leninist war of manoeuvre
144
Marxism Today and
54, 77
on newspapers
24n33
prison notebook
199–200
reception of
89
scholarship on
140
graphic design
270
‘The Grid’ (Marxism Today)
67, 297
Grosz, George
265–66
group cohesiveness
377
The Guardian
357–58, 360
Hall, Stuart
criticism of
151, 155
cultural studies and
150
discursive turn
149
on economism
123
encoding/decoding model
135n145, 138, 151
on Gramsci
108, 140–41, 144, 146, 147, 377n45
on Hobsbawm
110
ideology
142, 144
influence of ideas
418–19
interviews conducted for Marxism Today
333
Jacques and
115–16, 418
on labour movements
130–31, 194
on language analysis
419n191
on left
193, 432
Marxism Today and
77, 419–21
on media’s role
446
metaphors in
431, 433, 440
on neoliberalism
124
at New Left Review
417
on NSM s
185
Peck on
124–25
political economy’s criticism of
126
popularity of
129–30, 446
as a public intellectual
416–22
realism of
436–38
rhetorical analysis of
172, 371n25, 444
on the State
434
subjecthood in thinking
125
on think tanks
163
on unemployment
123
Williams contrasted with
135n145
writing style
385, 422–28, 436, 444
Hall, Stuart, ‘Thatcherism’ (thesis for Marxism Today)
about
115–16
circulation of
121
common sense and
134
counter-hegemony in
148
lines of argumentation in
120, 122, 142, 197–98
on new social order
118
various thinkers on
128, 140
weaknesses in theory of
147–48
Hammarling, Peter
243
hard left
about
435–36
caricatures of
434–35
critiques of the
439–40, 444
Hall and
423, 426, 431–32, 444
Hobsbawm and
410, 413
Marxism and the
430
use in writing
431–36
See also traditionalists
Harper, Clifford
280
Harris, David
425, 427
Harris, Laurence
86
Harvey, David
134n144
Hay, Colin
182
Hayek, Friedrich von
119
Heartfield, John
23n28
Heath, Ted
117n64, 295, 333
Hebdige, Dick
191
hegemony
apparatus
5, 155, 455
Gramsci’s theory of
140–41, 153–54, 377
Laclau’s discussion group and
146
Marxism Today’s use of theory
193
subaltern classes and
154–55
Thatcherism and
129–30, 137
See also electoral strategy; Hall, Stuart, ‘Thatcherism’ (thesis for Marxism Today)
Heinemann, Margot
34
Heseltine, Michael
347
Heywood, Jackie
99
Hill, Chris
317
historiography
9
Hobsbawm, Eric
critique of
355
critique of labour movement
104, 106–10, 113, 114–15
ethos of
406–7
influence of Popular Front on
109
influence on popular politics
177–78
interviews with
352
on Klugmann
203–4
on leftist opponents
413–14
metaphors in
440
New Left engagement
44
photo on cover of Marxism Today
273
political interventions through writing
403, 406, 412–13, 443–44
realistic Marxism
403, 406, 408–10, 414, 439–40
reception of work
197, 446
rhetorical strategy
411, 414
Universities and Left Review and
47–48
on voting tactically
91, 278
writing style
385, 411–12, 414
Hoffman, John
213, 214, 215–16, 294
Hoggart, Richard
417
homeownership
127
Horner, John
46
house style
206, 382–83, 401
human agency
10
Hunt, Alan
310
Hutt, G. Allen
29n48
i-D (periodical)
258
idealists/realists division
405–6
ideas
see marketplace of ideas (metaphor)
identity
89, 146
identity politics
171
ideology
9, 144, 154, 190, 230, 373
Illiffe, Steve
375, 393–94
illustrations
265
incomes policy
62, 338
individuality
125, 173, 174
industrial militancy
59
inflation
219
Institute for Policy Research
1
Institute for Workers’ Control
125
Institute of Economic Affairs
164
internal factions (CPGB)
25
International Marxist Group
156
International Socialism (theoretical journal)
26, 121
International Socialists/Socialist Workers’ Party
53
interviews/roundtable discussions
293–95, 333, 345, 347, 348, 355
Iskra (paper)
23
It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum (video)
417
Jackson, Ben
164
Jackson, Jesse
333, 421
Jacques, Martin
appeal to membership of Comment (party review)
67
audiences
205, 316, 319
on autonomy of Marxism Today
96–97
Benton and
208–9
British Road to Socialism
62
CIPD reports
68–69
on Communist Party of Great Britain’s financial control
218
Hall and
115–16, 418
on ideology
190
illness
91n329
on Klugmann
204n28
leadership qualities of
246
on Left’s focus on basic provision and access
175
Marxism Today Editorial Board and
213
on Marxism Today’s connection with Marxism
89–90
Marxism Today’s transformation and
17, 65–70, 79–80
McLennan and
87, 98–99
on the media
195
on People’s March for Jobs
179
presentation to Marxism Today Editorial Collective
100
production process
213n75
professional life of
207–10
reading of Financial Times (newspaper)
162
Resolution 72 and
62–63
responses to Thatcherism
179–80
talks given by
55
on terminal crisis of communism
94
Theory and Ideology Committee
190
From Trotsky to Tito
203
youth culture and
191
Jacques, Martin, editorship of
accessibility under
310–11
active editorship of
246
appointment
56, 61
assistant
232
audience of Marxism Today
299, 319
book publishing and
335
book reviews
303
broadsheet coverage under
349–51
on centralisation of control
189–90
challenges to
73–74, 86n302
changing roles at Marxism Today
71, 99, 212, 229–30
contributors under
331, 333
development issues under
341
‘Discussion’ section
296–97
distribution of Marxism Today
318
editorial positions
349n125
editorial working group and
242
features under
285–87
finances of
220, 225–26
freedom
253–54
ideological aspects of
438–39
interviews/roundtable discussions under
295
journalistic project of
256
journalistic project of Marxism Today
205
Marxism Today’s autonomy and
101–2
on need for change
382–84
promotional efforts
343–46
relationship with Communist Party of Great Britain leadership and Marxism Today
78, 88–90
relationship with Marxism Today Editorial Board
213–14
rhetorical strategy
378
secretaries
243n189
section editors and
248
Thatcherism and
205
threats to resign
240–41
topics under
290, 291, 385
transformation period
65–70
typesetting/printing decisions
234–37, 292
use of party publications/groups
338–39
visual communication
249–50, 255–56, 267, 272, 280
volunteers
247
word choice/use under
389, 394, 399, 401
jargon/specialised vocabularies
377, 386–90
Jenkins, Peter
356
Jenkins, Roy
130n127
Jessop, Bob
126
Johnstone, Monty
Communist Party of Great Britain and
47n118
criticisms by
216
Klugmann and
286
New Left engagement
44
rejections of writing
42, 56, 203
Jones, Jack
51
journalists
334–35
journals
257, 260, 441
Kenny, Michael
167
Kerrigan, Peter
51
Kettle, Arnold
46, 47, 48, 211
Keynesianism
169
Khomeini, Ayatollah
280
Khrushchev, Nikita
314
Kinnock, Neil
275, 277, 349, 355
Kipling, Rudyard
302, 381
Klugmann, James
advertisements
282
design changes to Marxism Today
203
Hobsbawm on
203–4
house style of
380–81
Jacques on
204n28
lectures/talks given by
337
Marxism Today and
45, 46, 49
Marxism Today Editorial Board and
38, 48, 53, 211
passive editorship of
263
trustworthiness of
45n106
Klugmann, James, editorship of
appointment
56
arguments under
59
book reviews
302–3
Christianity and
434
compared to Jacques
201–3, 209–10
contributors under
331
culture in
303
design under
271
features under
285–86
hierarchy of voices in
374
Marxism Today Editorial Board and
242
membership under
315
production aspects
234
promotional efforts
343–46
reactions to
53–54
solidification process under
377
topics under
290, 291, 380
word choice/use under
386, 394, 399, 440
writing styles, examples of
374–75
Koivisto, Juha
154
Korean War
38
labour
241
Labour government
electoral wins
182
internal divisions of
107–10, 122, 130
language of
181–82
Marxism Today’s criticism of
186
media/popular culture and
193
modernisation programme
120
rhetoric of national interest
120
rightward shift of national press and
159–61
unemployed workers and
114
See also New Left
Labour Left
71
Labour Monthly (periodical)
34, 37
Labour movement
Communist Party of Great Britain and
345n111
external pressures
179
Hall on
110, 194, 429
Hobsbawm’s critique of the
104, 406–7
Marxism Today on
3
National Union of Mineworkers and
85, 130
sectionalism of
113
See also Labour Monthly (periodical); New Socialist (journal)
Labour Party
about
60
Marxism Today and
453, 456
publishing of
320
relationship with New Statesman
321
views within
435
See also New Socialist (journal)
Labour Right
109
Labourism
166–67
Lackersteen, Michael
278n85
Laclau, Ernesto
145–46
Lane, Tony
73–74, 78, 214, 227
language/writing style
18, 19n16, 378–91, 394
Lawrence and Wishart
231, 335–36
Lawrie, Alan
244
layout
255
Leadbeater, Charlie
173, 333
leaflets
23n24
the Left
hard leftists
414–16
left press
196, 283–84
Marxism Today and
1, 13, 77
party paper
16
yuppie characterisations
433n233
‘Left Alive’ (Marxism Today event)
77, 306, 341, 361
Left Review (periodical)
210
left unity
77
‘Left Unlimited’ (Marxism Today event)
77, 341
legislation and
129
legitimation/apologist features
285
Lenin, V.I.
on communication
17
Hobsbawm’s references to
410
on rhetoric
366–67
‘scaffolding’ metaphor
17
What is to be Done? (pamphlet)
17–18, 24
Leninism
144
The Leninist (journal)
73, 84
Leninist party
17–19, 20–21, 22–23, 24–25, 32
Leninist/Bolshevik model
25
Leninist/vanguard model of production
11
Lennon, John
272–73
letters-to-the-editor
83
The Leveller (periodical)
190, 218
Lewis, John
38, 46, 47
Lewis, Justin
135–36
Leys, Colin
127–28
liberalisation
50
Lindsay, Jack
38, 46
Ling, Tom
126
Link (journal)
69–70
lithography/phototypesetting
450
‘Live-Aid’-type spectacles
194
Livingstone, Ken
277, 306, 341, 355
Lloyd, John
333
London District Communist Party
69, 84
Luntz, Frank
133
magazines
241–47, 257, 259, 260–61, 281n97, 360–61
Mahon, John
47, 211, 375
managerialism (of Communist Party of Great Britain)
57
The Manifesto for New Times (manifesto)
97, 171, 323, 348
Marchbank, Pearce
270, 299
Marginson, Paul
244
market research
325
market socialism
170
marketplace
172, 198n418, 362, 457
marketplace of ideas (metaphor)
5, 312–13, 380, 458
Marx, Karl
275, 367
Marxism
academic interest in
202
British tradition of
71, 79
as cohesive
372
within Communist Party of Great Britain
58
Communist rhetoric and
373–75
correct understandings of
38
cultural Marxism
188
Hall on
423
historiography and
9
influence in 1960s/1970s
195–96
language as difficult to understand
364
in Marxism Today
89–90, 290, 382
as a moral critic
373
opposition by Hall et al.
125
perceptions of
317
realism
403, 405, 407–10, 414, 430, 439–40
rhetoric of
367, 374–75
scholarly work on
6
showing/persuading duality
396
structuralist
202
us Marxist left
106
See also Christian-Marxist dialogue; cultural Marxism; structuralist Marxism
Marxism Today Editorial Board
expansion of
211–12
feminist perspectives on
184–85
Jacques and
213–15
Klugmann and
211
meetings of
213n77
new iteration
215–17
production process and
242
Theory and Ideology Committee and
215
See also Brennan, Irene; Carritt, Gabriel; Cohen, Jack; Connor, Dan; Edgar, David; Gardiner, Jean; Hobsbawm, Eric; Hoffman, John; Matthews, Betty; Murray, Robin; Rowthorn, Bob; Steward, Fred; Thomson, George; Wake, George; Wright, Nick
Marxism Today Editorial Collective
240–41, 244–45, 248
Marxist political organisations
19
Marxist Quarterly (journal)
about
34–35, 35n61, 36
audience for
38–39
editorial board
38, 47
last issue
44
relationship with Communist Party of Great Britain
43
scope of coverage
37–38
Marxist theory
382
mass media
6, 145, 151, 195
material ‘base’
441
Matthews, Betty
86n302, 211–12
Matthews, George
62, 70
Mayo, Marjorie
86
McGahey, Mick
85
McGerr, Michael
20
McGuigan, Jim
146
McKay, Ian
84, 98
McLennan, Gordon
Jacques and
87, 229
Marxism Today and
95, 227
Marxism Today Editorial Board and
74, 96, 101
political life of
51
replacement/retirement of
98, 99
speech to 39th Special Party Congress
87
Woddis and
56
McLennan, Gregor
395–400
McRobbie, Angela
191
M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis)
242n186
media coverage
77
media of communication
20
Medvedev, Roy
75
meetings culture
250–51
membership growth/decline
88, 315
membership of Communist Party of Great Britain/Marxism Today
88
metaphors, use of
431, 433, 440
militancy
110
militant labourism
51, 73, 75, 197
Mills, James
297
Milne, Seumas
112, 130
Milner, Andrew
147
Miners’ Strike (1984–85)
180, 306–9
Minnion, John
243, 280
modalisation (in writing)
423–28
Modern Quarterly (journal)
33–36, 39, 46
Mont Pelerin Society
163
moral panic
376
The Morning Star (daily paper)
break from Communist Party of Great Britain
85
financing of
218
loss of
88
naming
28–29, 50, 52
promotional efforts
346
readership of
330
See also The Daily Worker (daily paper)
Moscow gold
237
Mouffe, Chantal
138–39, 146
Moving Left show
77, 338, 340, 428
Mulgan, Geoff
173
Mulhern, Frances
335
municipal socialism
186
Murdoch, Rupert
130
Murray, Robin
169, 170, 176, 215
music
192
national news coverage (of Marxism Today)
348, 450
National Party Congress (1965)
51, 64
national press
156–60
national press coverage (of Marxism Today)
348–60, 362
National Union of Journalists
29n48
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
85, 112, 180–81, 295, 306
Nazi-Soviet, Non-Aggression Pact of 1939
28
neoliberalism
changes under
94–95
influence of ideas
164–65
New Right projects and
134
in the public sphere
164–65
rise of
5
think tanks and
163n267
Toryism and
124
See also Thatcherism
New Communist Party
62
New Internationalist (periodical)
231
New Labour Party
134, 148
New Left
44–45, 166, 167–68, 335
New Left journals
see The New Reasoner (journal); Universities and Left Review (journal)
New Left Review (journal)
40, 48, 128, 129, 283, 319–20
The New Reasoner (journal)
40, 261–62
See also The Reasoner (journal)
New Right
118, 119, 134, 163
New Social Movements (NSM)
67, 76, 80, 177, 183, 185
See also feminism
New Socialist (Labour Party journal)
about
451
advertising and
231
circulation
321
counter-hegemonic coalitions and
455
design in
260
financing of
218
Hall’s ideas and
121
origins of
320
production/distribution
321
promotional efforts
346
readership of
330
visual communication
258, 269
Williams and
129, 131
New Statesman (political weekly)
circulation
326
financial difficulties of
95n347
formatting
262, 268
origins of
320
promotional efforts
346
readership of
330, 442
relationship with Labour Party
321
relationship with Marxism Today
319
separation of culture/politics in
303
New Times (Marxism Today event)
77, 165–72, 175
New Times (Marxism Today political project)
96–100, 125–6, 136, 165–6, 168–9, 171–6, 281, 349, 372
newspapers
16, 161, 312, 329–30, 355, 446
1957 Commission on Inner-Party Democracy (report)
21
‘One Nation’ Toryism
116
open politics
294
Open University
417–18
openness (in Marxism Today’s house style)
401
operating costs
219
opinion/information distinction
134
opposition
86
organisation/production, decentralisation of
169
origins
10, 100, 210
Orwell, George
366, 391, 437
Our Time (periodical)
210
overview
44–56
Owen, David
130n127
Owen, William
258
pagination
249
Palme Dutt, Rajani
26, 37
pamphlets
16
Partito Comunista Italiano (political party)
61, 186
party economists
60
Party Group (faction)
57
party paper
about
16, 26, 31–32
agitation/propaganda and
23
communicative crisis and
18
Communist parties and
18
Communist Party of Great Britain and
25–26
language/writing style
18
Leninist practice and
17, 24–25
scope of coverage
28
writers for
18
party review
26, 30
passive editorships
199–210
Pearce, Bert
64, 70, 374–5
Pearmain, Andy
148
Peck, Janice
124–25
the people
146, 157
People’s Jubilee (Communist Party event)
340
People’s March for Jobs
179
periodicals
256–60, 267–68, 322, 372
periodicity
262
Perryman, Mark
229n127, 278, 339n86
the personal is political
167–68
Philo, Greg
181
phototypesetting/lithography
234–35, 450
plain style
390–402, 404
pluralism/identity conflict
89
policing
275
political economy
126
Political Letter (monthly)
41
political magazines
95n347
political organisations/parties
3, 15, 20, 50
political publications
271
political theology
414
political trajectory
197, 214, 329
political-analytical features
285
political-cultural criticism
190
politics
146, 150, 404
‘Politics and the English Language’ (essay)
366, 391
politics of identity
171
Pollitt, Harry
50
popular culture
150, 188, 190, 196
Popular Front
109
popular politics
177–83, 184, 197
position pieces
381–82
post-Fordism
125, 169–70, 175
Powell, Enoch
117n63
Powellism
117
practical consciousness (Williams)
19n16
Prague Spring
52, 54
Pravda (paper)
23
primary definer
395n117
print media
accessibility of
19
base/superstructure model and
441
editors of
29
the Left and
16
periodicity and
262
role of
441
socialism and
8
See also socialist/radical left publications
printing costs
219–24
printing press
16
printing/typesetting decisions
233
Prior, Mike
113
Priscott, Dave
64, 70–71, 214n82, 309
Private Eye (magazine)
330
production history (of Marxism Today)
12
production process
11, 241–47, 248–52
production values
219–20, 247
promotional efforts
343–46, 362
promotional efforts (of Marxism Today)
343–46
proofreading
236
proofreading process
236
propaganda
22n22, 23
property-owning democracy
127
public opinion
135, 182
public sector unionism
109
public sphere
313
public transport
187
publicity
347–48
Punch (subscription agency)
241
Purdy, Dave
60, 113
qualification/conditionality (in writing)
424–30
‘Questions of Ideology and Culture’ (statement)
51–52, 53
racist/fascist organisations
192
radical left/working class publications
6n15, 217, 218, 230–32, 255
radical papers
312
Rainbow Coalition (of ethnic groups and new social movements)
333
Rakowski, Mieczyslaw
274, 319
Ramelson, Bert
51, 92, 202
RAR (Rock Against Racism campaign)
192–93
readership
97, 323–31, 379–80
reading methods
151
Reagan, Ronald
132
realism
403–6, 430, 436–38, 443
realpolitik
see realism
The Reasoner (journal)
40, 41, 42, 73n243
See also The New Reasoner (journal)
Red Letters (journal)
64
Red Pepper (periodical)
262, 312
Red scare
376
reformists
78, 85, 92
Rehmann, Jan
144
religion (as target for socialists)
434
Resolution
72, 62
‘Rethinking Socialism for the ’90s’ (seminar)
165, 216
revisionism
57
Revolutionary Communist Party
232
Reynolds’ News (paper)
29n48
rhetoric
364, 391
See also Hobsbawm, Eric: ethos of
rhetorical strategy
411
right-wing press
151, 164
Robinson, Andrew
137–39
Robinson, Lee
307n163
Rodgers, Bill
130n127
roundtable discussions
293, 294, 295
Rowbotham, Sheila
183
Rowthorn, Bob
60, 62, 76, 214
Russian Civil War
20
Russian Social Democratic Party
18
sales
315, 319, 345
sales (of Marxism Today)
451
Samuel, Raphael
86, 86n306
Saville, John
40, 42, 303
‘scaffolding’ metaphor
17, 24
Scanlon, Hugh
51
Scargill, Arthur
295, 356
Schlesinger, Philip
151–52
Screen (film studies journal)
339
sectarianism
82
sectionalism
105, 113
Segal, Lynne
183
Seifert, Michael
214
self-managed model of production
11
‘Selsdon Man’ policies
117n64
sense
see common sense
7 Days (weekly)
243
sexism
57–58
Shadowdean
239
Shah, Eddie
130
Sharma, Vishnu
99
Simon, Roger
54
Sinyavsky, A.D.
50
Smith, Adam
162n266
Smith, Jane
280
Smith, W.H.
442n3
Smythe, Dallas
6n13
social assistance programmes
135
social contract
60
socialism
accessibility/popularity of
193
association with militancy
110
democratic
361
equation with bureaucratic statism
119
first New Left on
168
French Revolution and
16
new conception of
122
origins of
16
print media and
8
religious connotations of
414
utopia and
414
See also designer socialism; market socialism; municipal socialism
socialist individualism
168, 170
Socialist Review (periodical)
190, 259, 262
Socialist Worker (party paper)
26, 29, 346
Socialist Workers Party
26, 29, 77, 232, 340
socialist/radical left publications
15–16, 18
See also alternative/oppositional media; print media
solidification process (Marxism Today)
376–78
South Essex District Communist Party
55
Soviet communism
414
Spare Rib (magazine)
346
specialised vocabularies/jargon
367–8, 377–8
The Spectator (political magazine)
95n347
‘Sport Aid’ (event)
195
staff members
225, 246
staffing
227–28
staff/volunteers
241, 243–44, 246–47, 248–49
Stalinism
54, 166–67, 202, 203
Stanley, Frank
47
The Star (newspaper)
72, 78, 81, 82, 84, 87
‘Statement on Ideology and Culture’
50, 202, 265, 315
Steward, Fred
215
Straight Left (journal)
73, 82, 84, 99
structuralist Marxism
202
style (in writing)
378
subaltern classes
139–40, 143, 154–55
subscriptions
240–41, 267, 317, 448n8
subsidies
83, 95
The Sun (newspaper)
118
swing voters
135
tabloids
158
talks
337
talks (sponsored by Marxism Today)
337
Taylor, Jane
91n329, 242–43, 246–47, 252
Temple, Nina
87n309, 91, 98, 99–100
Thatcher, Margaret
110, 120–21, 272, 277
See also Thatcherism; TINA (There is no alternative)
Thatcherism
overview
115–22
alternatives to
125–26
anti-statism and
119
appeal of
194
attacks of
111–12, 115
authoritarian populism
180
common sense and
136–37, 142–43, 151
critique of hegemony
129–30
critiques of
444
disagreements over
435
electoral triumph of 1983
131–32
as form of class politics
116
hegemony and
137, 142
legislation and
129
Marxism Today and
2, 10, 80–81, 166
political economic approach to
126–27
The Politics of Thatcherism (collection)
336
popular politics and
197
popularity of
177
potency of
173
productive contradictions within
116–17, 120
responses to
179–80
rhetoric of
120–21, 146
scholarship on
117n62, 140n165
success of
119
unemployment under
179
voter support for
145
See also neoliberalism
The Politics of Thatcherism (collection)
336
theoretical journal
3, 26, 31
Theory and Ideology Committee
190, 215, 338
theory/practice divide
67–68, 80, 383
See also Marxist theory
Thesis on the Organisation and Structure of Communist Parties (Communist International)
18
think tanks
163–65, 163n267
Thomas, James
157–58, 160
Thomas, Peter D.
140–41
Thompson, E.P.
40, 42, 309
Thomson, George
47, 211, 212
Time Out (magazine)
46, 346
TINA (There is no alternative)
182
topic suggestions
248–49
topics
288–90
Toryism
116, 119, 123, 124, 129
tower blocks
414
Townsend, Sally
191, 244, 303
traditionalists
about
73
groupings within
73
Marxism Today and
57, 84, 88, 214–16
on Marxism Today Editorial Board
214
Marxism Today leadership and
82
New Communist Party
62–63
opposition to
69, 342, 415
reformists and
58, 305
tension with
52
transformation
442, 447, 457
transportation
187
Tribune (magazine)
346
Triesman, David
243, 244
tropes, use of
431
Trotsky, Leon
17, 366–67, 415
Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party
26
Trump, Donald
380n62
Turner, Julian
96, 100, 227, 229, 236
typesetting/printing decisions
233, 234–37, 240, 265
typography
265
UK Press Gazette
199n1
unemployment
114, 123, 179
Union Carbide
173
unions
105, 106, 111, 156
United States of America
15–16
Universities and Left Review (journal)
40, 47–48, 261–62
See also New Left Review (journal)
US Politics
132
USSR
52, 72, 75, 194, 203
See also Gorbachev, Mikhail; Moscow gold
us/them dichotomy
431
utopia
414
vanguard media
455
Vietnam Solidarity Campaign
53
visual communication
cover design
264, 269
Jacques and
249–50, 255–56, 267, 272, 280
Marxism Today and
258, 278–84
visual designers
258
vividness
392
volunteer labour
244
volunteers
241, 244–45, 247
volunteers/staff
241
voting
51, 91, 108, 135
See also election data/results; public opinion
wage demands
112–13
Wainwright, Hilary
183
Wake, George
213
Walesa, Lech
274
war of position
about
7–8
of Communist Party of Great Britain
57
contrasted with war of manoeuvre
150
Hall and
417
magazines as part of
260
Marxism Today and
458
municipal socialism and
186
1980s
133–34
public opinion and
182
War on Want
283
Warren, Bill
57
Warsaw Pact
203
Watt, David
162
Webster, Paul
245, 318
Wedge (periodical)
190
weekend events
77
Weir, Angela
86
welfare
135
W.H. Smith’s
317–18
Whannel, Paddy
417
What is to be Done? (Lenin)
17–18, 24
Whitfield, David
81
Williams, Raymond
on alternatives to social relations of production
124
constitutional authoritarianism
129, 197
critique of Hall’s Thatcherism
175
on cross-class support
137
cultural materialism and
7, 146–47, 365
on electoral analysis
131
Hall contrasted with
135n145
on Hobsbawm
110–11, 112
ideology
141
influence of ideas
418–19
on language
19n16, 419n191
on Marxists
9
on newspapers
107
on NUM strike
181
opinion/information distinction
134
processual-cultural aspect
137
on rightward shift of national press
156–60, 162
Towards 2000 (book)
176n328
Williams, Shirley
130n127
Wilson, Elizabeth
86
Wilson, Harold
106, 167, 377
Winter of Discontent (1978–79)
60, 106, 162, 180, 182, 358n146
Woddis, Margaret
55–56
‘Women Alive’ (Marxism Today event)
77
Wood, Brennon
147, 149, 151, 423n208
Wood, John
47
word choice/language
386–91, 440
Workers’ Weekly (party paper)
26–27
working class
148–49, 190
working environments
59, 173
World News and Views (periodical)
34, 36
Worsley, Peter
40
Wright, Nick
213
writers’ compensation
206, 225
writers’ pay
206, 225
writing styles
overview
378–94
of academics
384
of Hall
422–28, 436, 444
of Hobsbawm
411–12
importance of
364
See also plain style
Yip, David
191
Young, Hugo
333
Young Communist League (YCL)
30, 52, 189, 382
See alsoChallenge (magazine); Cogito (theoretical journal)
youth culture
191–92
See also Young Communist League
yuppie flu (M.E.)
242n186
yuppie left
433n233