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David Renton

Areas of interest include: Fascism, Communism, Globalization, Marxist Theory, Pollard, Revolutionary History.

Sidney Pollard: A Life in History (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004)

Trotsky (London: Haus Life and Times, 2004)

Dissident Marxism (London: Zed Press, 2004)

New Approaches to Socialist History (with Keith Flett, New Clarion Press, 2003)

Classical Marxism (New Clarion Press, 2002)

The Communist Party of Great Britain since 1920 (with James Eaden, Palgrave, 2002)

Marx on Globalisation (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2001).

This Rough Game: Fascism and Anti-Fascism(Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2001).

Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the 1940s, (London: Macmillan Press, 2000).

Liverpool: A Socialist History (Liverpool: Hegemon Press, 2000).

(Keith Flett and David Renton eds) "Introduction" The Twentieth Century: A Century of Wars and Revolutions? (London: Rivers Oram, 2000).

Fascism: Theory and Practice (London: Pluto Press, 1999).

Red Shirts and Black, Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Oxford in the "Thirties"(Oxford: Ruskin College Library, 1996).

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(with A. Alexander) 'Imperialism and Resistance in Egypt 1890-1990' in L. Zeilig, Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa (Bristol: New Clarion, 2002), pp. 46-66.

(with M. Thomas) 'Großbritannien', in H. Brückner, Die europäische Gewerkschaftslinke: Erfahrungen, Positionen, Diskussionen (Hannover: Gewerkschaftsforum Hannover, 2003), pp. 31-9.

'Sex is Violence: A Critique of Susan Sontag's "Fascinating Fascism"', in M. Cowling and P. Reynolds (eds), Making Sense of Sexual Consent (London: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 243-54.

'Docker and Garment Worker, Railwayman and Cabinet Maker: The Class Memory of Cable Street', in T. Kushner and N. Valman (ed.), Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society (London: Frank Cass, 2000), pp. 95-108.

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'Political Resistance and the Underworld: Four Studies of Sabotage in Historic and Literary Anarchism 1885-1915', in C. Barker (ed.), Alternative Futures and Popular Protests 2002 (Manchester: 2002).

'Can the Oppressed Unite? Women and anti-fascism in Britain 1977-1982', in C. Barker (ed.), Alternative Futures and Popular Protests 2000(Manchester: 2000).

'The Police and Fascist/Anti-Fascist Street Conflict 1945-1951', in C. Barker (ed.), Alternative Futures and Popular Protests 1997 (Manchester: 1997).

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'British Soldiers, Bread and Freedom', Revolutionary History 8/2 (2002), pp. 173-94.

'The Life and Politics of David Widgery', Left History (Canada) 8/1 (2002), pp. 7-31.

'A. K. Chesterton', 'George Pitt-Rivers' in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2002).

'Anti-fascism in the North West 1976-1982', North West Labour History 27 (summer 2002), pp. 17-28.

'David Widgery: The Poetics of Propaganda', Soundings 22 (2003), pp. 109-25.

'The Political Economy of Fascism', Correspondence (Delhi) 1 (2003), pp. 3-6.

'Forced labour in Nazi Germany', in St. James Encyclopaedia of Labor History Worldwide (New York: St. James Press, 2003).

'Sidney Pollard: The refugee historian', in S. Vice (ed) Representing the Holocaust (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003), pp. 184-200.

'Explaining the success of the British National Party, 1999-2003', Race and Class 45 (2003), pp. 75-85.

'Economic globalisation versus social justice? Rosa Luxemburg and the "frontier of control", Society in Transition 34/2 (2003), pp. 1-12.

'Unsung heroes behind them: the labour history of Sidney Pollard', Labour History Review, winter 68/3 (2003), pp. 311-27.

'Lance Beales', 'Sidney Pollard', Dictionary of British Economists, 2004.

'Antifascism', 'The Anti-Nazi League', 'Bourgeoisie', 'The Battle of Cable Street', 'Caesarism', 'Capitalism', 'Class', 'The Comintern', 'Counterrevolution', 'Marxism', 'The Masses', 'Nationalisation', and 'Leon Trotsky', in The Historical Encyclopaedia of World Fascism (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2004).

'Paul Lafargue and The Right to Be Lazy', Socialist History 24 (2004), pp. 79-91.

'Trade Union and Labour History: the South-African contribution', Labour History Review, 69/2 (2004), pp. 241-6.

'Skills for Life or Skills for Work? The Manpower Services Commission 1974-1988', History of Education Researcher 74 (2004), pp. 85-95.

'Women and Fascism: A Critique', Socialist History 20 (2001), pp. 72-83.

'Opening the Books: The Personal Papers of Dona Torr', History Workshop Journal52 (2001), pp. 238-47.

'One of the Causes of Fascism? German Exceptionalism Revisited', Journal of Peasant Studies, 28/4 (2001), pp. 127-48.

'Albert Einstein's Socialism', Rethinking Marxism, 13/2 (2001), pp.132-45.

'Reflections on a Collective Publication: Writing a Socialist History of Liverpool', North West Labour History 25 (2001), pp. 48-54.

'Not just Economics but Politics as well: Trade Unions, Labour Movement Activists and Anti-Fascist Protests 1945-51', Labour History Review 65/2 (2000), pp. 166-80.

'Class Consciousness and the Origins of Labour', International Socialism Journal88 (2000), pp. 143-8.

'Karl Korsch', What Next? 16 (2000), pp. 31-40.

'What Future for the past in today's South Africa?', Soundings 14 (2000), pp. 31-8.

'Soldats britanniques et trotskysme égyptien: Pain et Liberté', Cahiers Léon Trotsky68 (2000), pp. 95-120.

Was Fascism An Ideology? British Fascism Reconsidered', Race and Class 41/3 (2000), pp. 72-84.

'Docker and Garment Worker, Railwayman and Cabinet Maker: The Class Memory of Cable Street', Jewish Culture and History1/2(1999), pp.95-108.

'Cable Street Revisited', Changing English 5/2 (1998), pp. 189-94.

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