Bayard Rustin was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.
The New Leader (1924–2010) was an American political and cultural magazine.
Rabelais Student Media is the current student newspaper at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, named after French Renaissance writer François Rabelais.
Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist.
Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film Studies in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. Her special interests include sexuality and censorship in cinema and literature, women in film, psychoanalytic theory and D. H. Lawrence.
Lawrence & Wishart is a British publishing company formerly associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain. It was formed in 1936, through the merger of Martin Lawrence, the Communist Party's press, and Wishart Ltd, a family-owned Left-wing and anti-fascist publisher founded by Ernest Wishart, father of the painter Michael Wishart.
Charles Montagu Slater was an English poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, critic and librettist.
Ian Wishart is a New Zealand journalist, author and publisher, and the editor of Investigate magazine. He is a conservative Christian, an opponent of the scientific consensus on climate change, and has been described as a "professional controversialist".
The Journey of Reconciliation, also called "First Freedom Ride", was a form of nonviolent direct action to challenge state segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States. Bayard Rustin and 18 other men and women were the early organizers of the two-week journey that began on April 9, 1947. The participants started their journey in Washington, D.C., traveled as far south as North Carolina, before returning to Washington, D.C.
The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–1950), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell. Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism, who has been declared "perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture." His non-fiction cultural and political criticism constitutes the majority of his work, but Orwell also wrote in several genres of fictional literature.
The Carlsbad Current-Argus is a newspaper in Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States. It has been published since 1889. The newspaper, printed in a broadsheet format, is published daily except Mondays.
The National Book Council Banjo Awards were presented by the National Book Council of Australia from 1974 to 1997 for works of fiction and non-fiction. The name commemorates the bush poet Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson. The Council has enjoyed notable leadership including Justice Michael Kirby and Professor Michael Fraser (1991–1998). Many notable Australian writers have been recipients for this award, including Peter Carey, Tim Winton, Alan Gould, Liam Davison, Sally Morrison, and Roger McDonald. In 1978 Helen Garner was the first woman to win the award for her novel Monkey Grip. The current Banjo Paterson Writing Award, established in 1991, is separate to the above awards, although similarly aims to commemorate the work of Banjo Paterson.
John Lewis (1889–1976) was a British Unitarian minister and Marxist philosopher and author of many works on philosophy, anthropology, and religion.
Martin Jacques is a British journalist, editor, academic, political commentator and author.
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPGB founded the Daily Worker. In 1936, members of the party were present at the Battle of Cable Street, helping organise resistance against the British Union of Fascists. In the Spanish Civil War the CPGB worked with the USSR to create the British Battalion of the International Brigades, which party activist Bill Alexander commanded.
Sally Wishart Armstrong is a Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist.
Paul Salveson,, is an English politician, activist and author. He is currently a Visiting professor in transport and logistics at the University of Bolton and University of Huddersfield.
New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory & Politics is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal which covers the uses of cultural theory for the analysis of political and social issues. It is published by Lawrence and Wishart and the editor-in-chief is Jeremy Gilbert.
Frida Knight (1910–1996) was an English communist activist and author.
Phil Cohen is a British cultural theorist, urban ethnographer, community activist, educationalist and poet. He was involved in the London underground counter culture scene and gained public notoriety as 'Dr John', a leader in the squatter's rights movement but is now better known for his work on youth culture and the impact of urban regeneration on working class communities, particularly in East London, with a focus on issues of race and popular racism. More recently the scope of his work has widened to includes issues of identity politics, memory and loss, and the future of the Left in Britain. Cohen’s academic work is trans-disciplinary and draws on concepts from linguistics and narratology, psycho-analysis and anthropology, cultural history and social phenomenology. He is currently (2020) Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of East London, a research fellow at the Young Foundation and Research Director of the Livingmaps Network. Cohen is also a member of Compass, a Gramscian think tank within the Labour Party and is on the editorial board of New Formations. His work has been translated into French, German, Swedish, Italian, French and Japanese.
