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My Friend Footy
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Who Killed Hanratty?
Author argues that james Hanratty was wrongfully convicted and hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten.
Red Shelley
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Paul Foot
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Street Fighting Years
One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement What makes a young radical? Reissued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, Street Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of an era of hope and passion as Tariq Ali tracks the growing significance of the 1960s protest movement, as well as his own formation as a leading political activist. Through his personal story, he recounts a counter-history of a sixties rocked by the Prague Spring, student protests on the streets of Europe and America, the effects of the Vietnam war, and the aftermath of the revolutionary insurgencies led by Che Guevara. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. This edition includes the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono In 1971.
Articles of Resistance
A new collection that brings together some of the best of Paul Foot's writing from the 1990s and demonstrates why he was named 'Campaigning Journalist of the Decade'. Covers investigations on a wide range of subjects: miscarriages of justice, political sleaze, the the Blairite revolution and economic analysis. Will be warmly welcomed by everyone who has enjoyed Foot's newpaper columns throughout his career and demonstrates his breadth and depth of knowledge combined with his unequalled passion and commitment to exposing injustice.
The Vote
The dramatic story of the peoples' fight for the right to vote in Britain The culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of the hard, long-fought struggle for the right to vote in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed. In the tradition of "history from below," Paul Foot examines the great democratic debates that dominated the fight for electoral democracy. Taking readers from the smoke-filled church of the Putney debates, to the dramatic arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the struggles for votes for women. Throughout, Foot shows h...
Toussaint Louverture & The Haitian Revolution
In two characteristically brilliant lectures, delivered in 1978 and 1991 and published here for the first time, Paul Foot made an impassioned and compelling attempt to bring home to his audience some sense of the richness of the 'hidden history' of the Haitian Revolution. Through an inspired popularisation of C L R James's classic work, The Black Jacobins, the lectures showed the emancipation of the enslaved was fought for and won by the enslaved themselves. Yet the lectures also outline the importance of the outstanding revolutionary leadership represented by Toussaint Louverture.
