James Pollard Woudhuysen

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James Woudhuysen is an academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. As James Wood he wrote for the 'theoretical journal' of the Revolutionary Communist Group in 1975 (before the faction led by Frank Furedi was expelled from the RCG in late 1976), was on the editorial board of Revolutionary Communist Papers in 1980 and 1981 and was active in the Revolutionary Communist Tendency (1977-1981) and later the Revolutionary Communist Party (1981-1996) as well as writing for Living Marxism. He was appointed, under his own name, as a third director of Junius Publications the RCP publishing house in September of 1984 and gave his occupation as 'Lecturer' and an address in London N1. He declared also a further directorship of a firm called Wordsearch Limited. He resigned from that post in 1990.

James Woudhuysen in 2011

He has written or spoken for the pro-growth Big Potatoes for which he co-authored their manifesto, the East Midlands Salon, the Brighton Salon, the New York Salon,, the Leeds Salon, Culture Wars, the Battle of Ideas, the Institute of Ideas, Novo Argumente, WORLDwrite, for whom he is also a tour guide trainer, and Spiked , of which he is also a shareholder.He is a director of building promoters, Audacity, has joined a Manifesto Club campaign and is the fifth signatory of the statement of Academics for Academic Freedom.

Journal articles, book chapters, research reports and pamphlets

• Ashley Heath and James Wood, 'The Labour Party, the EEC and Ireland', Revolutionary Communist: Theoretical Journal of the Revolutionary Communist Group, Issue 2, May 1975: 41-5.

Popular press, Magazines articles (including the next step and Living Marxism/LM) and web publications

2001

• James Woudhuysen, 'Team players', Spiked, 12 April 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The magic of mobile', Spiked, 9 May 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Rebranding America', Spiked, 26 October 2001.

2002

• James Woudhuysen, 'The real con in WorldCon', Spiked, 19 July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Toy stories', Spiked, 25 July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Converging on risk aversion', Spiked, 2 August 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'If in doubt, brand', Spiked, 14 August 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Playing at democracy', Spiked, 28 November 2002.

2003

• James Woudhuysen, 'Air cares', Spiked, 10 February 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Putting the IT into politics', Spiked, 7 August 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The future in 3G', Spiked, 5 September 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Developing IT', Spiked, 17 December 2003.

2004

• James Woudhuysen, 'Why is construction so backward?', Spiked, 12 February 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Construction and transport: Victorian Britain lives on', Spiked, 14 June 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Brands: don’t buy the hype', Spiked, 25 August 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Metro miserablists', Spiked, 7 October 2004.

2005

• James Woudhuysen, 'Dresden: Don’t apologise - understand', Spiked, 8 February 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Tying WiFi down', Spiked, 13 April 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All eyes on the future', Spiked, 21 June 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Constructive ideas from the East', Spiked, 13 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All’s quiet on the Trafalgar front', Spiked, 21 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Stop this ‘urban regeneration’ roadshow', Spiked, 24 November 2005.

2006

• James Woudhuysen, 'Why don’t women play computer games?', Spiked, 23 March 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Blowing up Chernobyl', Spiked, 27 April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'In defence of individual ecofreedom', Spiked, 4 May 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A self-defeating argument for nuclear power', Spiked, 12 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The folly of carbon swipe cards', Spiked, 25 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Windmills of the mind', Spiked, 31 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Beware the New Parochialism', Spiked, 7 August 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The dangers of Brownfield Brutalism', Spiked, 20 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Transport innovation: slowing to a standstill', Spiked, 31 October 2006.

2007

• James Woudhuysen, 'The EU’s post-industrial revolution', Spiked, 11 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Gambling addiction: a panic at odds with reality', Spiked, 22 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A man-made morality tale', Spiked, 5 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'War and deception in the Netherlands', Spiked, 13 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Nuke the consultation - let’s have a debate!', Spiked, 20 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'In praise of big cities', Spiked, 8 March 2007.

Contact details

Personal website: "James Woudhuysen"

Facebook: "James Woudhuysen"

Twitter: "jameswoudhuysen

Profile, "James Woudhuysen", Audacity website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Profile, "James Wouhuysen", Big Potatoes website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Profile, "James Woudhuysen Brighton Salon website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Profile, "James Woudhuysen, De Montfort University website, accessed 12 Jan 2011