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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4358/ 'Why Diana died'], ''Spiked'', 5 January 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4365/ 'Taking the P out of politics'], ''Spiked'', 5 January 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4347/ 'Indecency in the eye of the beholder'], ''Spiked'', 13 January 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4334/ 'Disneyfying everyday life'], ''Spiked'', 19 January 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4323/ 'Don’t cheer if Hutton brings down Blair'], ''Spiked'', 23 January 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4320/ 'The fame game'], ''Spiked'', 26 January 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4309/ 'After Hutton'], ''Spiked'', 29 January 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2650/ 'Bestie RIP'], ''Spiked'', 2 February 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2638/ 'Hawking’s trouble and strife'], ''Spiked'', 6 February 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2635/ 'Maxine is not another Myra - or a Mary Bell'], ''Spiked'', 9 February 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2624/ 'Blair’s long retreat into ‘lifestyle’ politics'], ''Spiked'', 13 February 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2622/ 'Give me Jesus rather than this'], ''Spiked'', 16 February 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2611/ 'A police state, without any police'], ''Spiked'', 25 February 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2604/ 'Making a racial joke out of politics'], ''Spiked'', 1 March 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2587/ 'Apocalypse TV'], ''Spiked'', 10 March 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2580/ 'After Madrid: a strange sort of solidarity'], ''Spiked'', 12 March 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2578/ 'Spain: a victory for peace, or for defeatism?'], ''Spiked'', 15 March 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2572/ 'Bring back Toby Belch'], ''Spiked'', 17 March 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2557/ 'Do democracy a favour'], ''Spiked'', 29 March 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2411/ 'Blair’s EU-turn: British politics all at sea'], ''Spiked'', 21 April 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2414/ 'Israel: the state they love to hate'], ''Spiked'', 21 April 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2495/ 'Hamza Hook: a panto villain'], ''Spiked'', 28 April 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2553/ 'No sense please, we’re British'], ''Spiked'', 4 May 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2547/ 'From Iraq to Europe, the media spins the spinners'], ''Spiked'', 6 May 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2540/ 'New Labour makes the Jesuits look like liberals'], ''Spiked'', 12 May 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2399/ Iraqi pictures: a fake is not a ‘fact’], ''Spiked'', 14 May 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2396/ 'Down with soccerism'], ''Spiked'', 17 May 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2384/ 'A ticking timebomb in us all?'], ''Spiked'', 24 May 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2373/ 'Is Abu Ghraib the military version of reality TV?'], ''Spiked'', 28 May 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/5288/ 'Whatever happened to RIP?'], ''Spiked'', 4 June 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2478/ 'Kicking against the new conformist pricks'], ''Spiked'', 7 June 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2465/ 'Why Good Lies are bad news'], ''Spiked'', 14 June 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2468/ Europe: ‘We blame the government - whoever they are’], ''Spiked'', 14 June 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2456/ 'Return of the working-class hero'], ''Spiked'', 21 June 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2444/ 'Death is not a solution to the problems of living'], ''Spiked'', 28 June 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2366/ 'Warning: smoking bans can damage the body politic'], ''Spiked'', 2 July 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2363/ 'The fag end of radical politics'], ''Spiked'', 5 July 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2352/ 'Don’t you just hate the Illiberati?'], ''Spiked'', 12 July 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2340/ 'Iraq war: why all the shock and awe now?'], ''Spiked'', 16 July 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2431/ 'Sign up Private Lynndie for Big Brother'], ''Spiked'', 5 August 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2420/ 'No to moral imperialism - and moral defeatism'], ''Spiked'', 13 August 2004.
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*[[Mick Hume]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2309/ 'Life may not be a lottery, but the Lotto definitely is'], ''Spiked'', 13 August 2004.
  
 
===Living Marxism/LM===
 
===Living Marxism/LM===

Revision as of 14:42, 30 April 2012

LM network resources

Mick Hume is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmentalist LM network.

Mick Hume in 2007 or 2008

Hume was born in 1959 and raised in Woking, attending Woking County Grammar School for Boys [1] and studying American Studies in Manchester University. His first left-wing political act was, as a student in Manchester in 1981, supporting Irish Republican hunger strikers, alongside protesting against alleged police racism during that summer's Moss Side riots. [2] He is a journalist and erstwhile organiser of the Revolutionary Communist Party where he was editor of the weekly paper The Next Step from January 1987. [3] In 1988, he became the founding editor of the party's monthly magazine Living Marxism for which he wrote both under his own name and under the pseudonym Eddie Veale.[4] In 1997, following the dissolution of the RCP, the magazine was relaunched under his editorship as LM. Following the magazine's bankruptcy in a libel trial, he become the founding editor of its successor Spiked in 2001. He resigned from this post in 2007 in favour of Brendan O'Neill but continues to write for Spiked. He also speaks at the Battle of Ideas. [5][6]

He has written a column for the Times (London) since 2000.

According to his biography on the "Communicating the war on terror" conference website:

Mick Hume is the editor of spiked and a columnist for The Times (London) and a regular contributor to other publications. He was the editor of LM Magazine (which he launched, originally as Living Marxism, in 1988) until it was forced to close in 2000 following a libel suit brought by ITN. Hume is a fortysomething ex-grammar school boy from Woking, who went to Manchester University and still has a season ticket at Old Trafford."[7]


Encounter

In 1999, journalist Andy Beckett went to a Living Marxism-organised conference that Hume attended. Beckett interviewed Hume about his background and observed:

he rehearses the LM worldview: the globe is "at the end of a political cycle of left and right"; class, once the foundation of all left-wing thinking, "is not a political factor"; there is "no alternative to the market". Instead, the LM project has evolved into "reclaiming the human subject". ...
What Hume is reluctant to mention is that, until three years ago, Living Marxism was the official journal of a more obscure organisation: the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). After a long, uncharacteristic pause, and a certain amount of looking at the floor, Hume admits that he "spent 10 years in the RCP". What about the other staff of LM? "The network of people I live and work with contain lots of people who were members of the RCP…" Hume tries to sound casual. "I didn't think you were going to write about the RCP and all that."[8]

Affiliations

Publications

Pamphlets and Books

1996

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (Living Marxism Originals), Introduction by Mick Hume London: Pluto Press; New edition (15 May 1996) ISBN-10: 0745310338 ISBN-13: 978-0745310336

1997

  • Whose War is it Anyway? The Dangers of the Journalism of Attachment InformInc (LM) Ltd (July 1997)

1998

Spiked

2001

2002

2003

2004

Living Marxism/LM

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

Living Marxism became LM at issue 97 in February 1997.

1998

1999

2000

Resources, References and Contact


References

  1. Talking About My Generation The Times 30 Dec 2008
  2. Bobby Sands was nobody's victim Spiked, 28 Oct 2008
  3. [Mick Hume moves on - new editor for Spiked Spiked, 29 Jan 2007
  4. Don Milligan, Radical Amnesia and the RCP, Reflections of a Renegade, January 8, 2008.
  5. Speakers Battle of Ideas, acc 13 Mar 2011 and is a source of briefing material for Debating Matters.
  6. Mick Hume Debating Matters website, 13 Mar 2011
  7. Speakers' biographies", Communicating the war on terror conference website, 5 June 2003, accessed 16 July 2009
  8. Andy Beckett, Licence to rile, The Guardian, 15 May 1999, accessed 27 April 2010
  9. From the Battle of Ideas Festival 2007: biography (Accessed: 14 May 2008)
  10. http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20071019084210/http://www.riskoffreedom.com/pdf_archive/07brief.pdf