Oliver Eagleton
@Oliver_Eagleton
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Associate Editor @NewLeftReview (editing Sidecar). Writing for @NewStatesman , @jacobinmag , @guardian . Author of 'The Starmer Project'.
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Last week the right-wing gutter press decided to aureole me like a Byzantine saint and elevate me to the status of 'mob leader'. Hugely flattering!
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For
@novaramedia
, I wrote the inside story of Corbyn's suspension from the Labour Party – its origins, aftermath, and how Starmer broke an agreement to readmit him.
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Wrote this for
@novaramedia
on one of the most important and neglected aspects of Keir Starmer's CPS tenure - his proximity to the British security state - and its relevance for his remaking of the Labour Party.
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Just saw Andrew Marr and Matt Hancock encounter one another on the street in Hampstead. Incredibly warm smiles, embraces, 'how lovely to see you', etc. Quite clarifying.
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'Genuine pragmatism demands that you recognize when your opponents have no interest in compromise and will not halt their offensive no matter how much ground you concede.'
Everyone should read
@DanFinn95
's blistering piece on the Labour left:
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The Starmer Project (out next week with
@VersoBooks
!) gets a surprisingly positive mention in the Guardian's politics live blog:
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The DWP are phoning up benefits claimants to 'get them back to work' now that the lockdown is lifting. If you don't answer, they immediately stop your claim. What utter, utter scum.
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My latest for
@novaramedia
, on why Britain needs an anti-war movement to challenge its escalatory policies in Ukraine:
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A classic take from The Economist: 'Mr Eagleton’s portrayal of Sir Keir as a blood-soaked Trot-slayer is rather useful...He should take it as a compliment.'
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I wrote on the blind-spots in Owen Jones's This Land, and the continuities between McDonnellism and Starmerism, for
@NewLeftReview
.
Very glad to be appearing in the latest issue alongside stunning pieces from
@zevin_a
and
@jcollinshistory
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The biggest news today is that the govt is continuing to lift lockdown without a test-and-trace system. To avoid a second spike, ordinary people will - ironically - have to start putting their instinct for safety before the official rules in the coming weeks.
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A reminder that you can pre-order the Starmer Project here:
Also, it has a new cover. The finger-moustache look somehow seemed stronger.
This will boil some serious piss on publication. A no holds account of not just the Starmer leadership, but final years of Corbynism & disastrous decisions on Brexit.
Not good to open new wounds, perhaps, but lots of new stuff here. Well done on a great book
@EagletonOliver
👏🏽
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Wrote this brief exposé for
@novaramedia
on how Starmer has used a sham 'diversity and inclusion' campaign to whitewash Labour's institutional racism and toxic internal culture.
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I once met a former Spivak research assistant who spent the entirety of his Thanksgiving preparing a mustard-glazed ham for the Professor and then wasn't even offered a slice.
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Wrote for
@NewStatesman
on Marcuse's philosophy and the contemporary left: what we can learn from its distinction between social democracy and socialism, and its conception of the future in an age of climate breakdown.
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Very pleased to have written for
@jacobin
on how the British Left can develop an anti-imperialist programme that draws on the lessons of the Corbyn years (many of which have been forgotten or repressed).
Huge thanks to
@BaptisteOduor
for the commision!
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Wrote this short piece, in dialogue with
@meadwaj
, on the difference between policy and politics – and what it means for the left to exert 'pressure' on Starmer's Labour:
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Pegged to the book's release, I've got a piece in
@novaramedia
today on why Starmer isn't Blair (and Starmerism isn't Blairism).
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I wrote for
@guardian
on the literary and psychoanalytic method of Adam Phillips, and his ideal of therapy as a 'resisted conversion experience'.
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For
@NewStatesman
, I reviewed David Runciman's latest eulogy to liberalism – a book that's as intellectually flimsy as it is politically toxic:
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For Sidecar, I wrote on Biden's vision for the Middle East and the extent to which it aligns with the Israeli war on Gaza:
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'What he was, if anything, was Cinema itself, cinema rediscovered at its moment of disappearing. If cinema really is dying, then he died with it; or better still, it died with him.'
Jameson's debut in Sidecar!
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My latest for
@NewLeftReview
, on Will Hutton's hopelessly muddled plan for humanizing British capitalism, pitched at a Labour leadership that has no interest in doing so:
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I had a conversation with
@caitdoherty
, and it was so interesting that Jacobin decided to publish it!
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Wrote for
@NewStatesman
on how Johnson's resignation reflects broader changes in Britain's political landscape; why the Tories' populist transformation ran aground; and what this means for the opposition – inside and outside parliament.
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A must read:
@AntonJaegermm
on protest movements in the age of hyperpolitics:
'The public sphere has been repoliticized and re-enchanted, but on terms which are individualistic and short-termist.'
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A stunning overview of recent Sudanese history by
@joshua_craze
:
'To listen to the diplomats and World Bank officials that invaded Khartoum’s air-conditioned cafes after the revolution was to regress to the End of History.'
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Reviewed Alberto Toscano's high-octane new book on heterodox theories of fascism, from the interwar period to the present, for
@NewStatesman
:
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For
@NewStatesman
, I wrote about Matthew Goodwin's nativist turn and the porous boundary between the liberal centre and the far right.
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It was such a pleasure to read this thoughtful, generous engagement with The Starmer Project by one of my favourite writers,
@leninology
– which contains some razor-sharp reflections on the Corbyn period and Brexit debacle.
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In this long essay in the latest
@NewLeftReview
, I look at Göran Therborn's political-intellectual trajectory, his totalizing analysis of the contemporary left, and how the grand dialectics that shaped the 20th century have mutated in the 21st:
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For
@NewStatesman
: on 'The Battle of Algiers', and its echoes in Israel's campaign of colonial war and ethnic cleansing:
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I wrote on
@AntonJaegermm
and
@DanielZamoraV
's superb history of UBI, and the policy's self-contradictions as a tool for sustaining market society:
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Everything you need to know about Lula's first year back in power:
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Today's a big day for Sidecar, with Budgen's debut piece on Mélenchon: at once an outrageously funny and stylish rendering of the campaign, a rich empirical survey of the first-round results, and an analysis of the French Left's forward path.
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The Labour Files from
@AJIunit
provides an extraordinary insight into the lawlessness of the party apparatus and how it worked to undermine the previous leadership.
First episode airs at 9pm:
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Göran Therborn has written a comradely reply to my critique of his work – on the meaning of historical dialectics and the triadic crisis of ecology, geopolitics and inequality:
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It's The Starmer Project's publication day, and the below people think that you should buy a copy:
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Had a great conversation with comrade
@Lowkey0nline
about Sir Keir's political formation and outlook on the British state:
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Pleased to be featured on the cover of this week's
@NewStatesman
!
You can read my reflections on Beergate and the politics of scandals here:
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Wrote for
@NewStatesman
on Chantal Mouffe's oeuvre, the paradoxes of post-Marxism, and the fortunes of left populism in an age of climate crisis:
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A piece of mine for
@jacobinmag
on Ireland's direct provision system
Asylum applicants in Ireland are forced to live in prison-like “Direct Provision centers,” whose private managers preside over shocking abuse. And Ireland’s “liberal” prime minister Leo Varadkar doesn’t seem to care.
@EagletonOliver
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My review of
@KeirMilburn
's fascinating book on generational politics, in the latest
@NewLeftReview
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Had two entirely new experiences last night: wearing a dry-cleaned shirt and speaking alongside
@TariqAli_News
!
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Superb piece by
@EskandarSadeghi
on the complex history of Iran–Palestine solidarity, the former's shifting regional strategy, and the meaning of Operation True Promise:
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When my wonderful friend and comrade
@caitdoherty
isn't absorbed in the latest Pick Me Up, she's often writing brilliant, panoramic pieces like this one – a comparative study of the electoral lefts on both sides of the Atlantic, Squad and SCG:
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A furious, eye-opening piece by Ilan Pappé:
'Military officials who have committed countless war crimes in Gaza, and before that in the West Bank and Lebanon, are now playing a crucial role in the emerging opposition bloc.'
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Among the many great things in this piece,
@leninology
's sideswipe at Nick Cohen is particularly gratifying
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For this week's
@NewStatesman
, I reviewed Jonathan White's 'In the Long Run' – on clashing political conceptions of futurity, and the pace of democracy at a time of accelerating crisis:
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Wrote for
@NewStatesman
on Beergate, the limits of Starmer's electoral strategy, and how the left should relate to political scandals.
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For the past three years Sidecar has been publishing radical, distinctive interventions on politics and culture, covering almost every part of the globe (a smattering of examples below).
If you can chip in a couple pounds to support us we'd be thrilled:
Launched in 2020, Sidecar publishes free weekly articles on world politics, capitalism, ideas and culture.
If you value our work, please consider becoming a monthly supporter or making a one-off donation.
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Vital intervention against 'solutionism' – two state or one state – by
@emcnally96
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'There is an element of projection in the search for rapid "solutions" which are less discomforting for Westerners than a protracted, armed, anti-colonial struggle.'
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It's the greatest pleasure to publish
@cedric_durand
on Sidecar. This is a major contribution to the energy transition debate – and an eloquent demolition of the carbon pricing fetish.
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'NATO expansion is a voluntarist imperial strategy. Ideologically and strategically, Washington’s liberal-international militarism – dividing the world into "good" and "bad" states and pledging to regime-change the latter – is a recipe for war.'
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I wrote on
@DanFinn95
's extraordinary history of the Troubles - and the changeable relationship between Ireland's republican and socialist movements - for
@histmat
. If you haven't read 'One Man's Terrorist', read it now!
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'The conclusion is obvious: Hartlepool was a defeat for the right in which the right was represented by the leaders of the Labour Party.'
The brilliant Tom Hazeldine's first Sidecar column on the background and consequences of the rout:
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Was great speaking to
@AaronBastani
earlier this week!
There's been a series of extraordinary interviews on Downstream recently: with
@KojoKoram
,
@LenMcCluskey
,
@FukuyamaFrancis
and others. Check them out here:
What Does Keir Starmer ACTUALLY Believe? My interview with
@EagletonOliver
- biographer of the Labour leader - is live NOW
The first 60 pages, on Starmer’s legal career, are extraordinary reading.
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You simply must read
@sophiepinkhmmm
's supremely beautiful essay on North Korean fiction (which, among other things, describes how North Korean diplomats are bizarrely fond of quoting Gone with the Wind).
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@johnmcdonnellMP
@AaronBastani
@novaramedia
Just to clarify: I have had it from multiple sources that you urged Jeremy to apologise.
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Toscano on Negri:
'His lifelong war on the palaces was founded on the conviction that power, potestas, is nourished by a hatred of bodies and fixed in the threefold fetish of patriarchy-property-sovereignty.'
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Very happy to be editing Sidecar, the new NLR blog, along with the wonderful Simon Hammond. More pieces to come next week!
Introducing Sidecar, the new NLR blog!
Our opening lineup features
@TariqAli_News
on Starmer's purge;
@sophiepinkhmmm
on Stalin's final ceremony;
@majapearce
on Ivoirian elections; Wolfgang Streeck on NATO; and
@PinningtonN
on Annie Ernaux.
Read now!
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The Starmer Project is a
@NewStatesman
'best book for summer 2022': some people truly do not know how to pick their beach reads.
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Wrote for
@NewLeftReview
's Sidecar on how competing conceptions of Thatcherism and Johnsonism are being played out in the Tory leadership contest – and what its outcome will mean for the 'post-austerity' settlement:
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Great review review by
@David_Jamieson7
.
'The EU is antidemocratic in structure and culture by design. Caricatures of the union as a vast, grey, unyielding bureaucracy do not capture its true character: it is more like a playground for elites'.
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The extraordinary turnout for the Palestine march yesterday made me think of this passage:
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'Ensemble is the "party of order", of property owners and business people. It is a coalition of all those who were scared by the gilets jaunes and reassured by its ferocious repression.'
Serge Halimi's scorching debut in Sidecar:
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I wrote for
@guardian
on Tim Jackson's latest book, reading his prescriptions for a 'post growth' society against the concerns of degrowth-sceptics.
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'If contemporary generations can be accused of taking their experience too seriously, Williams’s detachment may provide a model for taking one’s experience seriously but not uncritically.'
Few people write better sentences than
@lola_seaton
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I wrote this strange Sidecar piece about psychoanalysis and Greek absurdist cinema, finding clues for post-lockdown life in the work of Christos Nikou:
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@JoshuaYJackson
Indeed. Starmer also prosecuted 44 women for making 'false accusations' of rape and domestic violence over an eighteen-month period during his time at the CPS. (More on this in the forthcoming book.)
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'When war comes, it infuses all those dusty old relics – flag, country, the royals, NATO – with erotic charge. One must never underestimate the glamour of war, especially for demoralised and directionless intellectuals.' (via
@leninology
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My take on Keir Starmer for
@VersoBooks
Keir Starmer made his pitch for the Labour leadership on a promise to retain the party's left-wing policies, while also being pragmatic and electable. But a look at his chequered career to date puts his left credentials in severe doubt | Oliver Eagleton
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@mattzarb
September 2022 at the latest - but could be sooner depending on the Verso schedule!
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'The industry of Henry Kissinger’s interminable twilight was only matched by its tawdriness.'
Thomas Meaney's stinging obituary for Sidecar:
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Here's me discussing The Starmer Project with the wonderful Karen Shook, hosted by
@HousmansBooks
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Westminster council is offering pro bono counselling services to employees affected by Philip's death
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Solidarity with
@KeirMilburn
and other brilliant scholars facing a politically motivated redundancy process at
@UniLeicBusiness
. Sign the petition here:
Academic freedom is under serious attack in the UK. It’s the real cancel culture in universities. 16 of us at
@UniLeicBusiness
are being threatened with redundancy because our scholarship is too critical. Please check out our website and sign our petition.
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Wrote for
@novaramedia
on the ideological backdrop to the Ukraine conflict – the tension between Russian and American geopolitical visions, as well as their crossovers.
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Of all the spectacular moments in
@SamAugustDean
's interview with Mike Davis, this one – about my hometown, Derry – might be the most exquisite:
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A fascinating and provocative defence of AMLO by
@edwinackerman
:
'The process for forming new unions has been simplified, statutory vacation days have doubled, and Mexico has seen the largest minimum-wage increase in more than forty years.'
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A fascinating account of Gustavo Petro's attempts to secure peace, social reforms and a green transition in Colombia – amid fierce opposition from Congress, the media, and the state itself. (
@NickMacWilliam
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@NotNihal
Have sent the cover designer back to the drawing board in light of the alpaca situation
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From
@Richard__Beck
, a comprehensive indictment of 'Bidenism Abroad' as a contradictory attempt to manage a slow-growth global empire, with increasingly divergent aims and outcomes:
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'Maoism managed to seep into Punjab’s cultural life in exhilarating, often erratic, ways. Numerous underground magazines sprang up in this period, disseminating homespun cultural revolution across the countryside. Today only fragments of them survive.'
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My latest for
@jacobin
, on Starmer's NATO-philia and its implications for Labour Left strategy:
Keir Starmer’s latest round of attacks on the Left should come as no surprise. He has made his career as a lackey for American imperialism and an opponent of socialists, inside and outside of the Labour Party.
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My review of
@JohnPatLeary
's Keywords in
@counterfireorg
"Leary’s book is accessible, incisive, clever and compelling."
@counterfireorg
reviews "Keywords: the New Language of Capitalism" by John Patrick Leary. Available now:
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'The more readers are content to conflate alter egos with authors, the more authors are tempted to idealize their fictional selves: confessional literature cedes the field to the autofiction of self-flattery.'
@xlorentzen
on Roth knocks it outta the park
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