James Heartfield

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James Heartfield
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Personal portrait of Heartfield, 2006
Born1961 (age 6364)
Political party Brexit Party
Other political
affiliations
Revolutionary Communist Party

James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian. [1]

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Life

Heartfield has written books on the history of the British Empire, including The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (2016) and The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration (2019). Heartfield has written for ArtReview , Blueprint , Spiked Online, and the Times Education Supplement. His Ph.D. thesis (awarded by the University of Westminster) was published as The European Union and the End of Politics, in 2013. [2]

In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja, he interviewed the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. [3] Heartfield worked as a vaccinator during the COVID-19 pandemic. [4]

Politics

Heartfield is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and was previously a writer for their magazine Living Marxism. [5] In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building. [6] He has written in favour of Israel's right to independence. [7] Heartfield stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom for Yorkshire and the Humber but did not gain a seat. [8]

Personal life

He lives in north London and is married with two daughters. [9]

Publications

References

  1. Bickerton, Christopher; Cunliffe, Philip; Gourevitch, Alexander (December 2006). Contributors, James Heartfield, Bickerton et al (eds) Politics Without Sovereignty, 2005, p x. Routledge. ISBN   9781134113866.
  2. Our Doctoral Research Programme, University of Westminster
  3. Svetlichnaja, Julia; Heartfield, James (2008). "The Russian Security Service's Ethnic Division and the Elimination of Moscow's Chechen Business Class in the 1990s" . Critique. 36 (3): 385–402. doi:10.1080/03017600802434227. S2CID   144709404.
  4. Heartfield, James (3 March 2022). "I Was a Vaccine Administrator". The Bellows. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022.
  5. See Heartfield, 'The Tyranny of Identity Politics', in Spiked (magazine) 25 January 2008, https://www.spiked-online.com/2008/01/25/the-tyranny-of-identity-politics/, and also,'Articles from Living Marxism online' on Heartfield's website http://heartfield.org/lm.htm
  6. "The Great Debate: Let's Build". 23 October 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007.
  7. Israel: an anti-colonial triumph https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/30/israel-an-anti-colonial-triumph/
  8. "EU parliamentary elections". www.leeds.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  9. James Heartfield's homepage for 16 September 2017
  10. Reviews of The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society:
  11. Review of The European Union and the End of Politics:
    • Alexandru Drăgulin, Journal of Ethnophilosophical Questions and Global Ethics,
  12. Review of British Workers & the US Civil War:
  13. Review of Unpatriotic History of the Second World War:
    • John Newsinger, Review 31,
  14. Reviews of The Aborigines' Protection Society:
  15. Review of Green Capitalism:
    • Nathan Coombs, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books,
  16. Review of The "Death of the Subject" Explained: