David Renton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Renton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Renton |
| SIGNATURE | RENTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sunderland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Challenging antisemitism in history and today
Renton reviews McGeever's analysis of the Bolshevik encounter with antisemitism in 1917. He argues that McGeever's narrative builds on insights which were already in the public domain, while acknowledging that McGeever takes the story further by showing that anti-Jewish violence was more pervasive than previously understood. He argues that the rise at the same moment of both revolutionary sentiment and racist prejudice is not a phenomenon restric…
Should Jews be alarmed
No Free Speech for Fascists
No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics. It explains how the demand to no platform fascists emerged in 1970s Britain, as a limited exception to a left-wing tradition of support for free speech. The book shows how no platform was intended to be applied narrowly, only to a right-wing p…
The New Authoritarians
The New Authoritarians
On Benjamin’s Theses , or the utility of the concept of historical time
Roger Griffin’s paper points towards the importance of historical time when discussing fascism. Walter Benjamin’s Theses, the discussion of which informs Griffin’s paper, engages with the topic of historical time at several points, especially in its discussion of the theory of progress that Benjamin found in German Social Democracy, to which the Theses was directly opposed. Revisiting sympathetically a theory of progress akin to that of Karl Kaut…
The Congo
Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexati…
A new era for equality law? Archibald v Fife Council reconsidered
This paper considers the significance of the House of Lords’ landmark ruling in Archibald v Fife Council. The case was widely considered to mark a significant change in equality law, with many voices welcoming the judgement and others being more cautious. The most critical readings suggested that Archibald had for the first time introduced into British law the idea that an organization might have a duty to discriminate positively in favour of cer…
British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State
Considerable attention has been paid to far-right parties and their leaders, Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, John Tyndall and Nick Griffin. But what about the forces that have been organised in oppos
Studying Their Own Nation Without Insularity? The British Marxist Historians Reconsidered
Contemporary interest in social history owes much to the work of a generation of British Marxist historians, including Edward Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill and Rodney Hilton, who popularized the idea of history from below. A key concept in their work was that of the “people.” The populism was no accident, but can be explained in terms of debates within interwar Marxism, and the adoption by the British Communist Party after 1935 of the…
A day to make history’? The 2004 elections and the British National Party
The June 2004 elections offered the British National Party unique opportunities for growth. There were three different elections being held at once: for seats on local councils, for the London mayor and the London Assembly, and for members of the European parliament (MEPs). Following boundary changes, the local council election was being conducted on a three-candidates-per-seat basis. The London and European elections were being run according to …
Dissident Marxism
We are witnessing the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist, libertarian and anti-war. But where do today’s dissidents come from? Dissident Marxism argues that their roots can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation of socialist revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures as the Soviet poet Mayakovsky, the Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, Communist historians Edward Thompson and Dona Torr, the Egyptian surrealist Georges…
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win
Unsung Heroes Behind Them
Examining the Success of the British National Party, 1999-2003
The Communist Party of Great Britain Since 1920
A new single volume history of the Communist Party of Great Britain examining the party from its foundations in 1920 to its demise in the early 1990s. Drawing on original research and a reading of spe
The Life and Politics of David Widgery
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Sidney Pollard
Albert Einstein's Socialism
The agrarian roots of fascism
This article takes issue with the common belief that a major cause of fascism in countries like Germany, Italy and Japan was late economic development. In contrast to the suggestion that national exceptionalism occurs where a bourgeois revolution has failed, this article maintains that capitalist development has generally followed the same kind of path in many different national contexts. For this reason it is wrong to exaggerate German exception…
Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s
Not Just Economics but Politics as Well
Fascism in France
Peter Davies, The National Front in France. Ideology, Discourse and Power (Routledge, London, 1999), 256 pp., ISBN 0–415–15866–4 (hb) Peter Fysh and Jim Wolfreys, The Politics of Racism in France (Macmillan, London, 1998), 256 pp., ISBN 0–333–63893‐X (hb
Docker and Garment Worker, Railwayman and Cabinet Maker
(1998). Docker and Garment Worker, Railwayman and Cabinet Maker: The Class Memory of Cable Street. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 95-108
The Congo
Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexati…
Examining the Success of the British National Party, 1999-2003
A day to make history’? The 2004 elections and the British National Party
The June 2004 elections offered the British National Party unique opportunities for growth. There were three different elections being held at once: for seats on local councils, for the London mayor and the London Assembly, and for members of the European parliament (MEPs). Following boundary changes, the local council election was being conducted on a three-candidates-per-seat basis. The London and European elections were being run according to …
The agrarian roots of fascism
This article takes issue with the common belief that a major cause of fascism in countries like Germany, Italy and Japan was late economic development. In contrast to the suggestion that national exceptionalism occurs where a bourgeois revolution has failed, this article maintains that capitalist development has generally followed the same kind of path in many different national contexts. For this reason it is wrong to exaggerate German exception…
Studying Their Own Nation Without Insularity? The British Marxist Historians Reconsidered
Contemporary interest in social history owes much to the work of a generation of British Marxist historians, including Edward Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill and Rodney Hilton, who popularized the idea of history from below. A key concept in their work was that of the “people.” The populism was no accident, but can be explained in terms of debates within interwar Marxism, and the adoption by the British Communist Party after 1935 of the…
Docker and Garment Worker, Railwayman and Cabinet Maker
(1998). Docker and Garment Worker, Railwayman and Cabinet Maker: The Class Memory of Cable Street. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 95-108
Fascism in France
Peter Davies, The National Front in France. Ideology, Discourse and Power (Routledge, London, 1999), 256 pp., ISBN 0–415–15866–4 (hb) Peter Fysh and Jim Wolfreys, The Politics of Racism in France (Macmillan, London, 1998), 256 pp., ISBN 0–333–63893‐X (hb
Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s
Not Just Economics but Politics as Well
Albert Einstein's Socialism
The agrarian roots of fascism
This article takes issue with the common belief that a major cause of fascism in countries like Germany, Italy and Japan was late economic development. In contrast to the suggestion that national exceptionalism occurs where a bourgeois revolution has failed, this article maintains that capitalist development has generally followed the same kind of path in many different national contexts. For this reason it is wrong to exaggerate German exception…
The Communist Party of Great Britain Since 1920
A new single volume history of the Communist Party of Great Britain examining the party from its foundations in 1920 to its demise in the early 1990s. Drawing on original research and a reading of spe
The Life and Politics of David Widgery
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Sidney Pollard
Unsung Heroes Behind Them
Examining the Success of the British National Party, 1999-2003
Dissident Marxism
We are witnessing the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist, libertarian and anti-war. But where do today’s dissidents come from? Dissident Marxism argues that their roots can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation of socialist revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures as the Soviet poet Mayakovsky, the Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, Communist historians Edward Thompson and Dona Torr, the Egyptian surrealist Georges…
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win
British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State
Considerable attention has been paid to far-right parties and their leaders, Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, John Tyndall and Nick Griffin. But what about the forces that have been organised in oppos
Studying Their Own Nation Without Insularity? The British Marxist Historians Reconsidered
Contemporary interest in social history owes much to the work of a generation of British Marxist historians, including Edward Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill and Rodney Hilton, who popularized the idea of history from below. A key concept in their work was that of the “people.” The populism was no accident, but can be explained in terms of debates within interwar Marxism, and the adoption by the British Communist Party after 1935 of the…
A day to make history’? The 2004 elections and the British National Party
The June 2004 elections offered the British National Party unique opportunities for growth. There were three different elections being held at once: for seats on local councils, for the London mayor and the London Assembly, and for members of the European parliament (MEPs). Following boundary changes, the local council election was being conducted on a three-candidates-per-seat basis. The London and European elections were being run according to …
A new era for equality law? Archibald v Fife Council reconsidered
This paper considers the significance of the House of Lords’ landmark ruling in Archibald v Fife Council. The case was widely considered to mark a significant change in equality law, with many voices welcoming the judgement and others being more cautious. The most critical readings suggested that Archibald had for the first time introduced into British law the idea that an organization might have a duty to discriminate positively in favour of cer…
The Congo
Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexati…
On Benjamin’s Theses , or the utility of the concept of historical time
Roger Griffin’s paper points towards the importance of historical time when discussing fascism. Walter Benjamin’s Theses, the discussion of which informs Griffin’s paper, engages with the topic of historical time at several points, especially in its discussion of the theory of progress that Benjamin found in German Social Democracy, to which the Theses was directly opposed. Revisiting sympathetically a theory of progress akin to that of Karl Kaut…
The New Authoritarians
The New Authoritarians
No Free Speech for Fascists
No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics. It explains how the demand to no platform fascists emerged in 1970s Britain, as a limited exception to a left-wing tradition of support for free speech. The book shows how no platform was intended to be applied narrowly, only to a right-wing p…
Challenging antisemitism in history and today
Renton reviews McGeever's analysis of the Bolshevik encounter with antisemitism in 1917. He argues that McGeever's narrative builds on insights which were already in the public domain, while acknowledging that McGeever takes the story further by showing that anti-Jewish violence was more pervasive than previously understood. He argues that the rise at the same moment of both revolutionary sentiment and racist prejudice is not a phenomenon restric…
Should Jews be alarmed
Political science (18 works) · History (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Economic history (9 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works)