Living Marxism: List of contents and publications

Living Marxism was a publication of the Revolutionary Communist Party launched in late 1988. After the dissolution of the party in 1996 it was renamed as LM magazine. It closed following a libel action taken by TV broadcaster ITN in 2000.

LM also published a number of pamphlets a continuation of the kind of material regularly put out by the RCP and published by Junius Publications. This page lists all the contents of Living Marxism/LM, pamphlets and books published by LM together with a listing of online commentaries it published beween 1995 and 2000.

Pamphlets and Books

1996

• The Point is to Change It: A Manifesto for a World Fit for People, London: Junius (1996), x-xiii. The RCP dissolution 'manifesto'.

1997

• Mick Hume, Whose War Is It Anyway: The Dangers Of The Journalism Of Attachment, LM, 1997. 28 pages, ISBN: 9780953132003

1998

• Mick Hume, Televictims - emotional correctness in the media AD (After Diana), LM magazine, 1998.

The penultimate issue of LM Magazine, Issue 128, March 2000

Living Marxism/LM

1988

No. 1 - November

• Linda Ryan 'What's the big Idea?', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 3.
• Editorial 'The Living and the Dead', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 4-5.
• Frank Richards, 'revolutions don't come from above', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 6-10.
• Tony Kennedy 'Lawson's luck is running out', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 12-16.
• Nigel Lewis 'The biggest bat-shoot in history', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 17.
• Mike Freeman and Gemma Forest 'Old ideas for New times', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 18-23.
• James Malone 'President of Disneyland', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 24
• Stephanie Boston 'A new coup behind closed doors?', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 25-28.
• Alan Harding 'A very British coup', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 29.
• Mark Reilly 'How the war began', Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 30-34.
• Joanna Doyle, 'Policing the young' review of Digby Anderson, Full Circle? Bringing Up Children in the Post-Permissive Society, Social Affairs Unit, Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 35.
• Manjit Singh 'Got the time?', Review of Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Press, Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 35.
• Kenan Malik 'Lifting the siege', 'Book of the Month', Review of Keith Tompson, Under Siege, Penguin, Living Marxism, November 1988, No. 1, p. 36.

1992

No. 41 - March

• 4 Editorial: the construction of the Islamic Bomb
• 6 Letters
• 8 Benetton: what's the fuss about? Jenny McLaren
• 11 Ann Bradley
• 12 An election without issues Tessa Myer
• 15 The Daily Dirt Tessa Myer
• 16 Scotland: what is not happening Kirk Williams
• 18 Music: a classic deception Mark Reilly
• 19 Toby Banks
• 20 Return of the Anti-Nazi League Eddie Veale, Kenan Malik
• 23 Kurds and Codes in Hackney Andrew Calcutt
• 24 'Who controls the past...' Frank Füredi
• 28 Eastern Europe: dustbin of history Irene Miller
• 29 JFK: no more heroes Emmanuel Oliver
• 30 How to invent a nation Joan Phillips
• 35 Women still aren't equal Sara Hardy

36 Living

• Natural childbirth
• German film
• Posh accents
• Mantegna
• 40 Frank Cottrell-Boyce on TV
• 43 The Marxist Review of Books: The Columbus debate

1995

No 85 - December

• Fiona Foster, "Massacring the truth in Rwanda", LM 85, December 1995. "This was not a pre-planned genocide of one tribe by another...The lesson I would draw from my visit is that we must reject the term 'genocide' in Rwanda."

1996

No. 88 - March

• Helen Simons and Barry Crawford, "Rwanda: the great genocide debate", LM 88, March 1996. "In reality the Rwandan war was not a campaign of genocide motivated by ethnic hatred."

1997

• Thomas Deichmann, "The picture that fooled the world", LM 97, February 1997. Accuses ITV reporters of faking footage of emaciated Bosnian muslims in a Serb detention centre.

1998

• Ron Arnold, "Unabomber: a darker shade of green", LM 108, March 1998. Argues that the unabomber is an environmentalist.
• Ceri Dingle, "Fox Hunting is Fun", LM 108, March 1998. "The hunting fraternity should stop waffling about pest control and economics and speak up for the thrill of the chase".

1999

• Rune Frøvik and Simon Ward, "The whaler's tale", LM 119, April 1999. Describes restrictions on whaling as "cultural imperialism".

2000

128 - March 2000

• 4 Mick Hume Setting the record straight
• 6 LM Online
• 6 Signs of the times
• 8 NHS in traction Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
• 10 Autism cures: communication breakdown Dr Jennifer Cunningham
• 12 Abuse of trust Frank Furedi
• 14 Prisons of the mind Brendan O'Neill
• 14 Wot no fear? Kenneth McLaughlin
• 16 Pill-oried Carl Djerassi talks to Ellie Lee
• 17 Embryonic developments Juliet Tizzard
• 18 Genetic engineering: a cautionary tale John Gillott
• 20 LM Mail
• 21 Opinion: AIDS - an epidemic of complacency? Ann Bradley
• 22 Britishness buried alive Andrew Calcutt
• 22 Geed up over Ali G Ed Barrett
• 24 Blairing out? Jennie Bristow
• 26 Inside the Dome Penny Lewis
• 28 Anti-harassment codes: too close for comfort Sara Hinchliffe
• 28 Love on the job? Tessa Mayes
• 30 An Englishwoman in Washington: Government plots Helen Searls
• 32 Working mums: all or nothing? Ann Furedi
• 34 Sex education: lessons in life Stuart Waiton
• 35 Second Opinion: The dangers of deference Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
• 36 'It has worked at a price' Margaret Forster talks to Jennie Bristow

Culture Wars

• 38 Painting by politics Mark Ryan
• 38 Shooting straight Michael Walter
• 39 Dung ho Aidan Campbell
• 40 Past tense: the Elgin Marbles Ian Walker
• 40 Veiled truths Claire Fox
• 41 Imposing cultural white space Mike Small
• 42 Vetting the net Chris Evans
• 43 Reading between the lines: What makes a good children's book - or a principled football manager?

129 - April 2000

• 4 Mick Hume The only thing this case has proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' is that English libel law is a disgrace to democracy and a menace to a free press
• 6 LM Online
• 8 Counsel estates Brendan O'Neill
• 10 Modern footballers: kicked about Carlton Brick
• 11 Italy's banners Dominic Standish
• 12 Austria-cised Linda Ryan
• 13 Opinion: Ill-conceived advice Ann Bradley
• 14 Politics today: trivial pursuits? Frank Furedi
• 16 London's mayor - who cares? Bruno Waterfield
• 16 A queer platform Peter Tatchell talks to Sandy Starr
• 18 A coup from within Mark Seddon
• 20 Nuclear reaction Joe Kaplinsky
• 21 Fudging Frankenfood Tony Gilland
• 23 Beach games Jennie Bristow
• 24 Addiction addicts Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
• 26 SAD and MAD in Scotland Dolan Cummings
• 27 An Englishwoman in Washington: Primary colours Helen Searls
• 28 Taboos: Smacking law - a walloping bad idea Ann Bradley
• 30 Peer fear Simon Knight

Culture Wars

• 32 The hollow men Claire Fox
• 34 Your guide to joining the new cultural elite Claire Fox
• 34 Culture vultures Mark Ryan
• 35 LM at the Bath Literature Festival
• 36 In a 'Tis about literature Irene Miller
• 37 Second Opinion: Screen test Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
• 38 Jobs for lifestyles Jennie Bristow
• 41 Ireland - no Plan B Brendan O'Neill
• 42 The Mars Society: spaced out? Dr Robert Zubrin talks to Helen Searls
• 43 Reading between the lines: Why a society with more pensioners should not slow us down

Mick Hume, Whose war is it anyway? The dangers of the journalism of attachment, An 'LM Special', 1997.

Commentaries

From December 1995 until 22 February 2000 Living Marxism published regular online commentaries, which are listed below.

2000

February 2000

• 02-22-00: 'Should women be living in fear?' - Sara Hinchliffe wonders where the latest figures on rape have come from.
• 02-18-00: 'Caring concerns' - The reaction to abuse in children's homes has its own dangers, argues Jennie Bristow.
• 02-02-00: 'Dr Shipman conviction' - It would be absurd to try to organise health services on the assumption that any doctor could turn out to be a serial killer, argues Dr Michael Fitzpatrick.

January 2000

• 01-17-00: 'Blair and the NHS crisis' - Mrs Winston-Fox gets flu, Mr Blair gets pneumonia by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick.
• 01-15-00: Straw's laws
• 01-15-00: No U-turn on transport - Prescott may be gone, but his anti-car policies live on, argues Austin Williams.

1999

December 1999

• 12-13-99: Behind the Chechen crisis - by Tracey Brown.
• 12-06-99: The problem with anti-capitalist demonstrations - by Mick Hume, LM editor.
• 12-02-99: No speed please, we're British - The latest transport initiative is less concerned with transport than with social engineering, argues Austin Williams.

November 1999

• 11-26-99: Battered intimacy
• 11-19-99: New Labour's therapeutic state - by Michael Fitzpatrick.

October 1999

• 10-29-99: LM Interview: An American Love Story - New York film maker Jennifer Fox has shown that this need not be so. She spoke to Claire Fox at the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival earlier this month...
• 10-14-99: Spinning Northern Ireland -
• 10-15-99: Creating crimes to count - Bruno Waterfield on why the government wants to cook the crime statistics books.
• 10-06-99: Clash of diversities - Nancy Morton reports from New York on Mayor Guiliani's failed attempt to use diversity to censor the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.

September 1999

• 09-22-99: The rating game - Fenno Outen reports on a discussion held by BAFTA on Tuesday 14 September 1999.
• 09-22-99: Six billion people? Three cheers - by Frank Furedi, author of Population and Development: A Critical Introduction.
• 09-20-99: The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Will Deighton explains why the pressure for international intervention in East Timor was destined to end in bloodshed.
• 09-20-99: Genetically modified fears - The reaction against GM food is bad news, even for those who would no sooner eat a Big Mac than a manure burger by Mick Hume, LM editor.
• 09-10-99: National moral purpose sex shocker - by James Heartfield.
• 09-03-99: Of mice and men - Researchers may have used genetics to improve the memory of mice, but it is nonsense to talk of an 'intelligence gene', argues Dr Stuart Derbyshire.

August 1999

• 08-26-99 Safety first?
• 08-16-99 Eco-worriers
• 08-09-99 Eclipsing the experience

July 1999

• 07-27-99 The Right to be Offensive
• 07-22-99 A kid with a new toy
• 07-21-99 Has the Moon shrunk?

June 1999

• 06-04-99 Kosovo: the price of Blair's victory
• 06-16-99 Punishing teenage fathers
• 06-16-99 Euro non-event
• 06-16-99 Low expectations in South Africa

May 1999

• 05-28-99 The nonsense effect
• 05-24-99 Disciplining parents

April 1999

• 04-29-99 Mourning sickness after Dando
• 04-28-99 Is this a race war?
• 04-27-99 American school shootings
• 04-23-99 No refuge
• 04-16-99 New Britain's moral crusade
• 04-09-99 Why Blair's 'humanitarian' war is even worse
• 04-01-99 Genocide: what's in a word?

March 1999

• 03-24-99 NSPCC spreads suspicion
• 03-25-99 Blowing up the Kosovo crisis
• 03-20-99 Caging children
• 03-17-99 Degrading democracy
• 03-01-99 An attack on us all

February 1999

• 02-17-99 Food frights
• 02-17-99 Who's behind the Ocalan witch-hunt?
• CULTURE WARS: 02-23-99 Comedy of errors
• 02-15-99 Monkeying around with rights
• 02-07-99 New myths for old on child sex abuse
• CULTURE WARS: 02-05-99 A drama out of a crisis

January 1999

• 01-18-99 Compensation syndrome

1998

December 1998

• 12-17-98 'Degrading' Iraq
• 12-06-98 The Pinochet saga

November 1998

• 11-29-98 Policing pregnant women
• 11-24-98 New-Age Synod
• 11-23-98 Lifestyle drugs
• 11-20-98 House of Lords reform
• 11-15-98 Carmageddon II - Computer Game Panic II

October 1998

• 10-31-98 Primarily colourless
• 10-26-98 Defenestrate Pinochet
• 10-13-98 The Truman Sham
• 10-06-98 This Wasn't Hardcore ...

September 1998

• 09-29-98 The Return of the Left?
• 09-15-98 Cry Baby Clinton
• 09-15-98 Conflicting Peace
• 09-10-98 Why I don't hate Murdoch United
• 09-08-98 Saving Private Spielberg
• 09-03-98 Diana Disillusion: the Cult of Diana and its Mirror Image

August 1998

• 08-18-98 Shattered Peace?
• 08-10-98 Stock Market Jitters
• 08-08-98 The Last Of The Homophobes

July 1998

• 07-30-98 Eroding Defendants' Rights
• 07-23-98 The Demon Car in a World of Strangers
• 07-22-98 No Deal for Transport
• 07-10-98 The cult of Diana
• 07-09-98 Deathly Indecision
• 07-07-98 New design at the ICA

June 1998

• 06-30-98 Hong Kong, China - One Year On
• 06-30-98 Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow
• 06-18-98 Hooliganism: a political football
• 06-18-98 A Dirty Little War
• 06-14-98 Gordon 'Prudent' Brown
• 06-09-98 After Dounreay: The End of the Nuclear Dream?

May 1998

• 05-22-98 New Labour v Old Snobs
• 05-19-98 The Big Debt Relief Scam
• 05-15-98 Nuclear Diplomacy
• 05-15-98 Forced To Agree
• 05-13-98 New Labour's Gunboat Ethics
• 05-08-98 Degraded Democracy
• 05-07-98 The dog that didn't bark
• 05-02-98 Mary, Mary, quite contrary

April 1998

• 04-24-98 Don't March - for Peace
• 04-09-98 Netscape's Support for PICS
• 04-01-98 Kicking the soul out of football

March 1998

• 03-20-98 Soya Scare
• 03-09-98 Lunar Luddism
• 03-06-98 Rape Law Injustice
• 03-01-98 Domed-out

February 1998

• 02-17-98 Fanning the flames of litigation
• 02-19-98 Iraq - caught between the US and the UN
• 02-01-98 Sex scandals

January 1998

• 01-27-98 Compromising Microsoft's Purpose
• 01-26-98 To Hell with Blair's apology
• 01-20-98 Not one doctor but none
• 01-15-98 Mo Mowlam's mothering instinct
• 01-14-98 The IMF and East Asia
• 01-09-98 Human clones to order?
• 01-08-98 Negative images
• 01-02-98 The Last Straw

1997

December 1997

• 12-04-97 More Mad Cow Madness
• 12-02-97 Gene Patenting: piracy or progress?
• 12-01-97 A Question for World Aids Day

November 1997

• 11-22-97 Cash for fags?
• 11-08-97 After Diana, Louise

October 1997

• 10-29-97 Stock Market Rollercoaster
• 10-27-97 Abortion: No Limits On Women's Choice
• 10-25-97 A Warming Thought
• 10-17-97 Cassini's progress ???
• 10-15-97 Model Cities ???
• 10-01-97 Algeria's bloody conflict

September 1997

• 09-30-97 All parties, no people
• 09-16-97 The Ministry Of Truth And The Bosnian Elections
• 09-14-97 New Scotland, New Elitism
• 09-08-97 The lonely crowd
• 09-02-97 The Real Meaning of the Di Phenomenon

August 1997

• 08-13-97 The Real Scandal

July 1997

• 07-11-97 Summary Justice
• 07-08-97 Mo Mowlam's marching orders
• 07-07-97 Stagnating in space
• 07-03-97 Sleaze Merchants

June 1997

• 06-30-97 Handing back Hong Kong
• 06-29-97 Preparing Bosnia For Democracy
• 06-19-97 McJustice
• 06-18-97 Pedestrian transport policies
• 06-16-97 Ending rape 'by any means necessary'?
• 06-06-97 Swinging to the left?

May 1997

• 05-28-97 Abortion - whose rights?
• 05-14-97 New Labour, Many New Dangers
• 05-08-97 The Tadic verdict: a bad day for justice
• 05-02-97 Nightmare on Downing Street

April 1997

• 04-22-97 From pro-choice to no choice
• 04-21-97 Self sacrifice in the Observer sleaze scandal
• 04-17-97 Banning the BNP attacks us all
• 04-08-97 Don't Turn Democracy Into A Media Circus
• 04-06-97 General Election: The Sleaze Fallout

March 1997

• 03-24-97 Cloning Update
• 03-12-97 HIV Scare Story

February 1997

• 02-25-97 Who's Afraid of the Pro-Life Alliance?
• 02-24-97 China After Deng Xiaoping
• 02-23-97 It's Not Just Guns
• 02-22-97 Undermining Justice
• 02-18-97 Trial by Media
• 02-18-97 Debate: Will Gun Control Make Society Safer?

January 1997

• 01-31-97 The Peace Process: Time to Face Reality
• 01-23-97 An Englishman's home is no longer his castle
• 01-21-97 Taking Liberties
• 01-20-97 Harvey the Heretic
• 01-13-97 Off with their heads!
• 01-07-97 Get Religion out of Politics

1996

December

• 12-12-96 No Cuts in AIDS research
• 12-05-96 Freedom of Speech on Campus
• 12-02-96 The Cardiff Meningitis Panic

November

• 11-27-96 Rwanda Update
• 11-26-96 Chunnel Panic
• 11-20-96 The poverty of student life
• 11-07-96 The Election That Put Politics Aside
• 11-06-96 'It's NOT the economy, stupid'

October

• 10-30-96 Behind the crisis in Eastern Zaire
• 10-28-96 Victims are not Oracles
• 10-16-96 New Labour: New Authoritarianism
• 10-10-96 Bombs for Peace
• 10-04-96 Palestine: The Deadly Peace
• 10-03-96 'I'm Against Censorship, But...'

September

• 09-24-96 Unholy Orders
• 09-05-96 Bloody Crusaders Call the Shots in Iraq

August

• 08-27-96 Smoking Bans
• 08-23-96 Internet Censorship
• 08-16-96 Holding a gun to our heads
• 08-08-96 The abortion controversy

July

• 07-25-96 Who Needs the World Service?
• 07-22-96 The Stock Market Rollercoaster
• 07-19-96 Teflon Peace
• 07-11-96 The sectarian peace process
• 07-10-96 The moral maze
• 07-07-96 Why they lied to you about AIDS
• 07-05-96 Whose Values? Whose Visions?

June

• 06-20-96 Supporting Victims
• 06-10-96 A Travesty of Democracy
• 06-07-96 Hillsborough: Seven Years On
• 06-06-96 Child's Play 3 - A Horror Story
• 06-04-96 Please Mind Your Manners!

May

• 05-23-96 Controls Old and New
• 05-15-96 Stalking our rights away
• 05-10-96 Show Trial Opens in Hague

April

• 04-29-96 Chernobyl as a metaphor for the 1990s
• 04-26-96 Divorced from Reality
• 04-23-96 Racist Psychology Lecturer Faces Ban
• 04-21-96 Massacre at Qana
• 04-17-96 Israel's 'Peace', Lebanon's devastation
• 04-16-96 The Wrath of 'Peace'
• 04-10-96 Lesson in democracy?
• 04-01-96 Treating Women as Walking Wombs

March

• 03-23-96 More Mad Cow Madness
• 03-22-96 The General Election and the Question of State Power
• 03-15-96 After Dunblane
• 03-13-96 US Warships out of East Asia!
• 03-10-96 Look Who's Stalking
• 03-05-96 Sperm: do men measure up today?
• 03-04-96 Who's Afraid of Pat Buchanan?

February

• 02-22-96 Oil Spills and Ecodoom Mongers
• 02-22-96 Living Marxism Accused of 'Holocaust Denial'
• 02-22-96 We Don't Want Asylum but an Open Door
• 02-10-96 A Blast from the Past?
• 02-10-96 After Scott: Judges Rule
• 02-09-96 The Net-nanny State
• 02-06-96 Are Teen Magazines Obscene?
• 02-06-96 Schools Row

January

• 01-25-96 Ireland: an election without democracy
• 01-23-96 Who has a stake in Singapore's 'stakeholder economy'?
• 01-19-96 The Right To Be Offensive
• 01-16-96 Is Socialist Labour an Alternative?
• 01-10-96 Killing China's Independence
• 01-06-96 Killings in Ireland: is the peace process dead?
• 01-06-96 An attack on free speech

1995

December

• 2-18-95 No Return to Communism in the CIS
• 12-14-95 Brixton: that was no riot
• 12-05-95 Princess Diana: Queen of Victims

Resources

• For a full list of reading and resources see LM network: Resources
• Internet Archive Of LM Magazine website Informinc.co.uk