Neildavidsonshort CV

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Neil Douglas Davidson

Current Post: Lecturer in Sociology, School of Political and Social Sciences, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow

2. POLITICAL ACTIVITY

Member of the British Socialist Workers Party, 1978-2013 and of several internal oppositions, 2007-2013.

Currently a member of Revolutionary Socialism for the 21st Century (rs21) in the UK, and Respect, Independence, Socialism, Environment (RISE) and the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) in Scotland.

3. PUBLICATIONS a. Books – Sole Author

How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition) (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017).

Nation-states: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016).

We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015).

Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014).

How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012). This book has been published in Spanish as Transformar el mundo: revoluciones burguesas y revolución social, with an introduction by Josep Fontana (Barcelona: Ediciones Pasado y Presente, 2013).

Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746 (London: Pluto Press, 2003).

The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (London: Pluto Press, 2000).

b. Books and Special Journal Editions – Co-edited

No Problem Here: Understanding Racism in Scotland, co-edited with Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride and Satnam Virdee (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2017). 2

Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 23, nos 2-3 (2015), Special Issue: 25 Years of Revolution: Comparing Revolt and Transition from Europe 1989 to the Arab World 2014 (co-edited with Marilyn Booth).

The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology, co- edited with Alexander Anievas, Adam Fabry and Richard Saul (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014).

Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation, co-edited with Patricia McCafferty and David Miller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings, 1953-1974, co-edited with Paul Blackledge, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008). This work has been translated into Mandarin.

c. Books – Sole Editor

1 Doğan Göçmen, The Adam Smith Problem: Human Nature and Society in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations (London: I. B. Tauris Academic Studies, 2007). d. Refereed Journal Articles

“Neoliberalism and the Far-Right: A Contradictory Embrace”, Critical Sociology, vol. 43, no. 4-5 (July 2017): 707-724 (first published on-line 24 October).

‘Crisis Neoliberalism and Regimes of Permanent Exception’, Critical Sociology, vol. 43, no. 4-5 (July 2017): 615-634 (first published on-line 4 August 2016).

“Scotland, Catalonia and the ‘Right’ to Self-Determination: A Comment Suggested by Kathryn Crameri’s ‘Do Catalans Have the Right to Decide?’” Global Discourse, vol. 6, no. 3 (2016): 440-449 (first published on-line on 15 July); reprinted in Contending Legitimacy in World Politics: The State, Civil Society and the International Sphere in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Bronwyn Winter and Lucia Sorbera (London: Routledge, 2017).

“Debating the Nature of Capitalism: An Engagement with Geoffrey Hodgson”, Competition and Change, vol. 20, no. 3 (June 2016): 204–218.

“Is Social Revolution Still Possible in the Twenty-first Century?” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 23, nos 2-3 (2015), Special Issue: 25 Years of Revolution: Comparing Revolt and Transition from Europe 1989 to the Arab World 2014: 105-150.

“Racism: from the Labour Movement to the Far-right” (co-written with Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride and Satnam Virdee), Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 38, no. 3 (2015): 446-451.

“A Scottish Watershed”, New Left Review II/89 (September/October 2014): 5-26.

“A Comment on British Imperial Decline and the Conditions of Emergence for Scottish Nationalism: Reply to Callum McCormick ”, Global Discourse, vol. 3, no. 3

1 (2013): 115-119; reprinted in in The Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: Empire in the Age of Austerity, edited by Russell Foster, Matthew Johnson and Mark Edward (London: Routledge, 2014).

“The Necessity of Multiple Nation-states for Capital”, Rethinking Marxism, vol. 24, no. 1, special issue: Marxism and Nationalism (January 2012): 26-46.

“The American Civil War Considered as a Bourgeois Revolution”, Historical Materialism, vol. 19, no. 4 (2011): 45-91.

“Gramsci’s Reception in Scotland”, Scottish Labour History 45 (2010): 37-58; republished in Bella Caledonia http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2017/04/10/antonio- gramscis-reception-in-scotland/ (posted 19 April 2017).

“Scotland: Birthplace of Passive Revolution?” Capital and Class, vol. 34, no. 3 (October 2010): 343-359.

“Putting the Nation back into ‘the International’”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 22, no. 1 (March 2009): 9-28.

“How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Continued.” Historical Materialism, vol. 13, no. 4 (2005): 3-54.

“How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?” Historical Materialism, vol. 13, no. 3 (2005): 3-38.

“The Scottish Path to Capitalist Agriculture 3: the Enlightenment as the Theory and Practice of Improvement”, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 2005): 1-72.

“Popular Insurgency during the Glorious Revolution in Scotland”, Scottish Labour History 39 (2004): 14-31.

“The Scottish Path to Capitalist Agriculture 2: the Capitalist Offensive (1747- 1815)” Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 4, no. 4 (October 2004): 411-460.

“The Scottish Path to Capitalist Agriculture 1: from the Crisis of Feudalism to the Origins of Agrarian Transformation (1688-1746)”, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 4, no. 3 (July 2004): 227-268.

“Stalinism, ‘Nation Theory’ and Scottish History: a Reply to John Foster”, Historical Materialism, vol. 10, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 195-222.

“Marx and Engels on the Scottish Highlands”, Science and Society, vol. 65, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 286-326.

e. Articles in Books

“Neoliberal Regimes, the Far-right and the Implications for Capital”, in David Miller, Lucy Brown, William Dinan and Ludek Stavinoha (eds), Researching the Powerful: Sociology in Action (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).

“Introduction: Understanding Racism in Scotland” (with Satnam Virdee), in No 4

Problem Here: Understanding Racism in Scotland, co-edited with Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride and Satnam Virdee (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2017): 9-12.

“The Conditions for the Emergence of Uneven and Combined Development”, in Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development in the Longue Durée, edited by Alexander Anievas and Kamran Matin (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016): 31-52.

“The Public Memoirs and Confessions of an Unconscious Weberian”, in Nation- states: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016).

“Preface”, in Nation-states: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016): ix-xxvii.

“Between Two Referendums”, in Gregor Gall (ed) Is There a Scottish Road to Socialism? (Third edition, Glasgow: Scottish Left Review Press, 2016): 75-85.

“Afterword: We Cannot Escape History” ”, in We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015): 233-242.

“Preface”, in We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015): ix-xxiii.

“Alasdair MacIntyre’s Lost Sociology”, in Alex Law and Eric R. Lybeck (eds), Sociological Amnesia: Cross-currents in Disciplinary History (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015): 159-179.

“The Scottish Pre-industrial Urban Crowd and the Riots Against the Treaty of Union, 1705-1707”, in Keith Flett (ed), A History of Riots (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015): 77-120.

“The First World War, Classical Marxism and the End of the Bourgeois Revolution in Europe”, in Alexander Anievas (ed), Cataclysm 1914: the First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015): 302-365.

“The Far-right and the ‘Needs of Capital’,” in The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014): 129-152.

“The Longue Durée of the Far- Right: an Introduction” (with Alexander Anievas, Adam Fabry and Richard Saul), in The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology (London: Routledge, 2014): 1-20.

“Preface”, in Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014): ix-xiv.

“Right-Wing Social Movements: the Political Indeterminacy of Social Mobilization”, in Colin Barker, Lawrence Cox, John Krinsky and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (eds), Marxism and Social Movements (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2013): 277-297. “What is Scottish Independence for?”, in Gregor Gall (ed), Scotland’s Road to Socialism: Time to Choose (Glasgow: Scottish Left Review Press, 2013): 48-54.

“Alasdair MacIntyre and Trotskyism”, in Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight (eds), Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism (Indiana: 5

University of Notre Dame Press, 2011): 152-176.

“Many Capitals, Many States: Logic, Contingency or Mediation?” In Alexander Anievas (ed), Marxism and World Politics: Challenging Global Capitalism (London: Routledge, 2010): 77-93.

“Introduction”, in Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty and David Miller (eds), Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), ix-xxii.

“What was Neoliberalism?” In Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty and David Miller (eds), Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010): 1-89.

“Neoliberal Politics in a Devolved Scotland”, in Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty and David Miller (eds), Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010): 315-378.

“Kleine (Einfache) Warenproduktion”, Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Band 7/I, Kaderpart–Klonen, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug and Peter Jehle (Berlin: Institut fur Kritische Theorie, 2008).

“Introduction: the Unknown Alasdair MacIntyre” (with Paul Blackledge), in Paul Blackledge and Neil Davidson (eds), Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings, 1953-1974 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008): xiii-l.

“Alasdair MacIntyre as a Marxist, 1956-1968”, in Keith Flett (ed), 1956 and All That (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007): 143-165.

“Is There a Scottish Road to Socialism?” In Gregor Gall (eds), Is There a Scottish Road to Socialism? (Glasgow: Scottish Left Review Press, 2007): 118-128.

“From Uneven to Combined Development”, in Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice (eds), 100 Years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects (London: Pluto Press, 2006): 10-26.

“China: Unevenness, Combination, Revolution?”, in Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice (eds), 100 Years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects (London: Pluto Press, 2006): 211-229.

“Class Consciousness and National Consciousness in the Scottish General Strike of 1820”, in Keith Flett and David Renton (eds), New Approaches to Socialist History (Cheltenham: New Clarion Press, 2003): 133-48.

“Scotland's Bourgeois Revolution”, in Chris Bambery (ed) Scotland, Class and Nation (London: Bookmarks, 1999): 37-133.

f. Political Articles

“The Russian Revolution and the Contemporary Left: Inspiration or Model?”, Socialist History 52, The Legacies of October (2017): 36-47.

“The Contradictions of Corbynism”, New Socialist (Toronto) website: http://newsocialist.org/the-contradictions-of-corbynism/(posted 5 September 6

2017); reposted on the rs21 website https://rs21.org.uk/2017/09/10/the- contradictions-of-corbynism/ (posted 10 September 2017).

“Choosing or Refusing to take Sides in an Era of Right-Wing Populism, Part 2: The Case of the United Kingdom and the European Union”, International Socialist Review 106 (Fall 2017): 60-89.

“Realism, Modernism and the Spectre of Trotsky, Part 1: Lukacs”, Red Wedge 3, The Return of the Crowd (Summer 2017): 37-52.

“Why Have there been so Few Protests against Brexit?” The Conversation website https://theconversation.com/why-have-there-been-so-few-protests-against-brexit- 74855 (posted 31 March 2017).

“Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution”, rs21 website https://rs21testblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/uneven-and-combined- development-modernity-modernism-revolution.pdf (posted 3 March 2017).

“Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (5): China: Where all Roads Meet”, rs21 website https://rs21.org.uk/2017/03/03/pdf-revolutionary-reflections-uneven-and- combined-development-modernity-modernism-revolution-5-china-where-all- roads-meet/ (posted 3 March 2017);

“Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (4): Continuities and Changes”, rs21 website https://rs21.org.uk/2017/02/24/revolutionary-reflections-uneven-and-combined- development-modernity-modernism-revolution-4-continuities-and-changes/ (posted 24 February 2014);

“Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (3): Cartographies and Chronologies”, rs21 website https://rs21.org.uk/2017/02/15/revolutionary-reflections-uneven-and-combined- development-modernity-modernism-revolution-3-cartographies-and- chronologies/ (posted 16 February 2017);

“Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (2): Causes, Consequences, Constraints”, rs21 website https://rs21.org.uk/2017/02/10/revolutionary-reflections-uneven-and-combined- development-modernity-modernism-revolution-2-causes-consequences- constraints/ (posted 10 February 2017);

‘Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (1): The Classic Forms of Uneven and Combined Development’, rs21 website https://rs21.org.uk/2017/02/03/revolutionary-reflections-uneven-and-combined- development-modernity-modernism-revolution-1-the-classic-forms-of-uneven- and-combined-development/ (posted 3 February 2017).

“Choosing or Refusing to take Sides in an Era of Right-Wing Populism, Part 1”, International Socialist Review 104 (Spring 2017): 53-73.

“Alan Rae (5 July 1950-12 November 2016): An Obituary in the Form of a Memoir”, rs21 7 website https://rs21.org.uk/2016/12/14/alan-rae-5-july-1950-12-november-2016-an- obituary-in-the-form-of-a-memoir/ (posted 14 December 2016).

“After Brexit”, International Socialist Review online http://isreview.org/issue/102/after-brexit (posted 23 September 2016).

“The SNP and Crisis Neoliberalism”, a contribution to a roundtable discussion on "Scotland and Alternatives to Neoliberalism" (with Satnam Virdee, Jenny Morrison and Gerry Mooney), Soundings 63: Spaces of Resistance (Summer 2016): 55-72.

“Scotland after Brexit”, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/scotland- independence-referendum-brexit-nicola-sturgeon/ (posted 25 July 2016).

“What would a British revolution look like – and how would it happen?” The Conversation website https://theconversation.com/what-would-a-british- revolution-look-like-and-how-would-it-happen-58448 (posted 22 July 2016); reposted on the rs21 website https://rs21.org.uk/2016/07/23/what-would-a- british-revolution-look-like-and-how-would-it-happen/ (posted 23 July 2016).

“Why Socialist Should Support a British Exit”, Socialist Worker (Chicago) on-line: https://socialistworker.org/2016/06/20/why-socialists-should-support-a-british-exit (posted 20 June 2016); reposted as “Neil Davidson: Why Socialists Should Support a British Exit”, on the rs21 website: https://rs21.org.uk/2016/06/22/neil-davidson-why-socialists-should-support-a- british-exit/comment-page-1/#comment-24035 (22 June 2016).

“Debate on the Detail of Neoliberal Thought Rages on…and an Academic Weighs in on the Topic.” “The Long Letter” in The National (6 June 2016). http://www.thenational.scot/comment/letters-ii-debate-on-the-detail-of-neoliberal- thought-rages-on.18437 reposted in Critical Reading website: https://socialistworker.org/blog/critical-reading/2016/06/06/what-is-neoliberalism (posted 7 June 2016).

“A Socialist Case for Leaving the EU”, Bella Caledonia website http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/03/01/a-socialist-case-for-leaving-the-eu/ (posted 1 March 2016); reposted on rs21 website as “EU Debate: A Socialist Case for Leaving the EU”, http://rs21.org.uk/2016/03/02/eu-debate-a-socialist-case-for-leaving-the- eu/ (posted 2 March 2016); reposted on the Socialist Worker (USA) website http://socialistworker.org/2016/03/24/a-socialist-case-for-leaving-the-eu (posted 24 March 2016); reposted on Al’encontre (Switzerland) website as “L’Ecosse et le référendum sur l’Europe. Une argumentation socialiste face au Brexit”, http://alencontre.org/europe/grande-bretagne/lecosse-et-le-referendum-sur- leurope-une-argumentation-socialiste-face-au-brexit.html (posted 8 May 2016).

“Indyref 2014: Nation v Class (debate with John Foster), Scottish Left Review 90 (November/December 2015): 16-17.

“What is a Revolution?” New Socialist website (Toronto) 8 http://newsocialist.org/808-what-is-a-revolution (posted 28 October 2015).

“Marxism and the National Question in Scotland: Economic Crisis, Political Radicalisation and the Working Class” (debate with Sandy McBurney), Critique, vol. 43, no. 2 (2015): 277-293.

“Neoliberalism as the Agent of Capitalist Self-Destruction”, Salvage 1 (July 2015): 81-96.

“Sir Walter Scott and the Kilting and Tartaning of Scotland”, Perspectives 41 (Summer 2015): 20-23. Posted on the Scottish Left Project website (12 August 2015), http://leftproject.scot/2015/sir-walter-scott-and-the-kilting-and-tartaning-of- scotland/

“Sunrise on the Scottish Left”, Jacobin website https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/scottish-referendum-snp-independence- labour/ (posted 7 July 2015).

“Neoliberalism against Capitalism?” Progress in Political Economy (PPE) website (Sydney) http://bit.ly/1LQ9mEL (posted 29 June 2015).

“Notes from the New World of Scottish Politics”, Scottish Left Project website (posted 16 May 2015). http://leftproject.scot/2015/notes-from-new-world/ Reposted on the rs21 website (posted 18 May 2015). http://rs21.org.uk/2015/05/18/notes-from-the-new-world-of-scottish-politics/ Reposted on the Socialist Worker (USA) website (posted 18 May 2015). http://socialistworker.org/2015/05/18/the-new-world-of-scottish-politics

“A Political Earthquake is About to Happen in Scotland”, rs21 website (posted 17 April 2015). http://rs21.org.uk/2015/04/17/bbcdebate-a-political-earthquake-is-about-to- happen-in-scotland/

“Politics in the Age of Austerity: from Above or Below?”, rs21 3 (Spring 2015): 22-29.

“The New Middle Class and the Changing Social Base of Neoliberalism”, Oxford Left Review 14 (February 2015): 4-10.

“Scotland: the Social Movement for Independence and the Crisis of the British State”, RS21 website (originally posted 16-20 November in five parts), https://rs21testblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/scotlandsocialmovement1.pdf Reposted on the Scottish Left Project Blog on 22 November 2014, http://thepeopledemand.org/?p=325 “Patriot Games: 1914-2014”, Scottish Review of Books, vol. 10, no. 4 (2014): 24- 26.

“For a Yes Vote Without Illusions: on the Scottish Independence Referendum”, The Project 2 (July 2014) (posted 3 July 2014), http://www.socialistproject.org/the-left/for-a-yes-vote-without-illusions-on-the- scottish-independence-referendum/

“Remembrance, Empire and Resistance”, a paper from the Jimmy Reid 9

Foundation (posted 15 June 2014), http://reidfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Remembrance-Empire- and-Resistance.pdf

“‘Yes’: a Non-nationalist Argument for Scottish Independence”, Radical Philosophy 185 (May/June 2014): 2-7. Reprinted as “Why Scotland Should Vote Yes”, in Jacobin (posted 9 September 2014) https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/why-scotland-should-vote-yes/ Reprinted as “Saying Yes in Scotland” in Socialist Worker (Chicago) (posted 4 July 2014) http://socialistworker.org/2014/07/04/saying-yes-in-scotland

“Revolutions Between Theory and History: a Response to Alex Callinicos and Donny Gluckstein”, International Socialism, second series, 142 (Spring 2014): 177-198.

“Ecosia: Indepentismo and anticapitaliso revolucionario”, Enlucha/Enlluita (26 January 2014).

“La Novedad Historica de la Nacion”, La Hiedra 8 (Enero 2014): 21-26.

“Is there Anything to Defend in Political Marxism?” International Socialist Review 91 (Winter 2013-14): 48-67.

“The Logic of Conflict”, Scottish Left Review 79 (November/December 2013): 20- 21.

“Genesis and Catastrophe: 1914 in the Mirror of the Present”, West Scotland Quaker News (November 2013): 11-12.

“The Neoliberal Era in Britain: Historical Developments and Current Perspectives”, International Socialism, second series, 139 (Summer 2013): 171- 223.

“The Battle for Adam Smith”, Scottish Review of Books, vol. 9, no. 1 (23 March 2013): 25-27.

“After RIC”, Scottish Left Review 74 (January/February 2013): 22.

“Una respuesta revolucionaria a la cuestión nacional en Escocia”/Una resposta revolucionària a la qüestió nacional a Escòcia”, La Hiedra 5 (Enero-Abril 2013), http://enlucha.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/una-respuesta-revolucionaria-a-la- cuestion-nacional-en-escocia/ http://enlucha.wordpress.com/una-resposta-revolucionaria-a-la-questio-nacional- a-escocia/

“What Are Socialist Arguments for Independence?” Bella Caledonia (posted 22 November 2012), http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2012/11/22/radical-indy-conference-11-what-are- socialist-arguments-for-independence/

“Eric Hobsbawm as a Marxist Historian: an Appreciation”, New Left Project (posted 29 October 2012), http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/hobsbawm_as_a_ marxist_historian_an_appreciation 10

“Hobsbawm’s Unanswered Question”, Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), vol. 47, no. 38 (22 September 2012): 31-37. Reprinted in International Socialist Review 86 (November-December 2012): 44-51.

“The Civil War as a Bourgeois Revolution”, International Socialist Review 83 (May-June 2012): 17-23.

“The Politics of the Scottish Independence Referendum”, International Socialism, second series, 138 (Spring 2012).

“Neoliberalism: from One Crisis to Another, 1973-2008”, New Left Project, May Day International (posted 1 May 2011), http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/mayday/article/neoliberalism_from_one_ crisis_to_another_1973_2008

“From Deflected Permanent Revolution to Uneven and Combined Development”, International Socialism, second series, 128 (Autumn 2010): 167-202.

“Socialist Arguments for Independence”, Democratic Green Socialist 12 (July/August 2010), http://www.democraticgreensocialist.org/wordpress/?page_id=352

“Root of this Evil”, Scottish Left Review 55 (November/December 2009): 6-7.

‘The Place of 1989 in History”, Democratic Green Socialist 9 (November/December 2009).

“TM Devine, Neil Davidson, Pat Kane and Hannah McGill give their views on the Braveheart effect 15 years on”, Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh) (25 October 2009): 8.

“Is it OK to Collect Memorabilia with a Morally Dubious Past?” The Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (20 September 2009).

“Walter Benjamin and the Classical Marxist Tradition”, International Socialism, second series, 121 (Winter 2009): 157-172; reprinted on Red Wedge website, http://redwedgemagazine.com/articles/walter-benjamin-classical-marxist-tradition (posted 8 July 2014).

‘Scotland’s New Road to Reform?’, International Socialism, second series, 118, (spring 2008): 23-26. “Obituary: Angus Calder, 1942-2008”, Socialist Review 327, (July/August 2008): 34.

“Nations and Neoliberalism”, Variant 32 (Summer 2008): 36-38.

“Socialists and Scottish Independence”, International Socialism, second series, 114 (Spring 2007): 33-50.

“Third World Revolution”, Socialist Review 312 (December 2006): 22-23.

“Enlightenment and Anti-Capitalism”, International Socialism, second series, 110 (spring 2006): 85-112. 11

“Islam and the Enlightenment”, Socialist Review 304 (March 2006): 10-15.

“A History of Mutiny”, Socialist Review 297 (June 2005): 7-11.

“‘Unionism’, Progress and the Socialist Tradition in Scottish History”, Emancipation and Liberation 8 (Autumn 2004): 28-38.

“Birth of a Nation”, The Scotsman (Edinburgh) (26 March 2000).

“The Trouble with ‘Ethnicity’”, International Socialism, second series, 84 (Autumn 1999): 3-30.

“In Perspective: Tom Nairn”, International Socialism, second series, 82, (Spring 1999): 97-136.

“Culloden Battle…Milestone in a Capitalist Revolution”, The Inverness Courier (25 October 1996).

g. Reviews

Review of Peter M. Jones, Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750–1840, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 48, no. 2 (Autumn 2017): 253–255.

Review of David Andress (ed), The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution in H-France Review (June 2016) http://www.h-france.net/vol16reviews/vol16no73davidson.pdf

“Review of Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence”, rs21 7 (Spring 2016): 42-43.

“Edinburgh’s Philosophe” (review of James A Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography), New Left Review II/98 (March/April 2016): 129-139.

“Review of James Foley and Pete Ramand, Yes: the Radical Case for Scottish Independence”, rs21 1 (Summer 2014): 31.

“Review of Timothy Neat, Hamish Henderson: a Biography, volume 1, the Making of the Poet (1919-53) and volume 2, Poetry Becomes People (1952-2002)”, Scottish Labour History 47 (2012): 112-114.

“Communist Women in Scotland” (review of Neil Rafeek, Communist Women in Scotland), Critique, vol. 39, no. 2 (May 2011): 289-301.

“Centuries of Transition” (review of Chris Wickham, Framing the Middle Ages), Historical Materialism vol. 19, no. 1 (2011): 74-97.

“Political Poet beneath the Halo” (review of Timothy Neat, Hamish Henderson: a Biography, volume 2, Poetry Becomes People (1952-2002)), Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh) (13 December 2009).

“Shock and Awe” (review of Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine), International Socialism, second series, 124 (Autumn 2009): 159-177.

Review of Hugh Trevor Roper, The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, History: Reviews of New Books, vol. 37, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 24-25.

“Review of Robert A. A. McGeachy, Argyll, 1730-1850: Commerce, Community and Culture”, Scottish Left Review 46 (May/June 2008): 25-26.

“Reimagined Communities” (review of Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, third edition), International Socialism, second series, 117 (Winter 2008): 143-163.

“Welfare, Workers and the Class Struggle” (review of Gerry Mooney and Alex Law (eds), New Labour/Hard Labour?), Activate–the Magazine for PCS activists, December 2007, online edition http://www.pcs.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=915254

‘Review of Daniel Hinds, The Threat to Reason’, Socialist Review 316 (July/August 2007): 25.

“The French Revolution is Not Over” (review of Henry Heller, The Bourgeois Revolution in France, 1789-1815), International Socialism, second series, 113 (Winter 2007): 159-178.

“Carnival, March, Riot” (review of David Renton, When We Touched the Sky: The Anti-Nazi League, 1977-1981), International Socialism, second series, 112 (Autumn 2006): 209-215.

“Nine Days of Hope” (review of Anne Perkins, A Very British Strike), Socialist Worker (6 May 2006): 13.

“Scotland: Almost Afraid to Know Itself?” (review of Gregor Gall, The Political Economy of Scotland: Red Scotland? Radical Scotland?), International Socialism, second series, 109 (Winter 2005/6): 179-81.

“There’s no Place like America Today” (review of Victor G. Kiernan, America: the New Imperialism–from White Settlement to Word Hegemony and Neil Smith, The Endgame of Globalization), International Socialism, second series, 109 (Winter 2005/6): 167-171.

“When History Failed to Turn” (review of Pierre Broue, The German Revolution), International Socialism, second series, 10 (Autumn 2005): 181-186.

“The Prophet, His Biographer and the Watchtower” (review of Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed and The Prophet Outcast), International Socialism, second series, 104 (Autumn 2004): 95-118.

“Good Tradition” (review of David Renton, Dissident Marxism), Socialist Review 288, (September 2004): 41-42.

“Review of Paul Blackledge, Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left”, Bookmarks Review of Books 23 (Summer 2004): 3.

“Mike Davis Speaks to Bookmarks” (interview with Mike Davis and review of Late Victorian Holocausts), Bookmarks Review of Books 13 (Spring 2001): 2-3.

“Marxism and Social Theory” (review of Alex Callinicos, Social Theory), 13

Bookmarks Review of Books 6 (Summer 1999): 3.

‘Scotland’s Glory?’ (Review of the National Museum of Scotland), Socialist Review 226 (January 1999): 28.

“Union, Empire and Explanation”, (review of John Robertson, ed., A Union for Empire), Scottish Affairs 14, (Winter 1995/6): 116-22.

“Missing a Beat” (review of Braveheart, directed by Mel Gibson), Socialist Review 190 (October 1995): 28.

“Before Disgraceland” (review of Peter Guralnick, Last Train from Memphis), Socialist Review 186 (May 1995): 30.

“Struggle in the Junkyard” (review of Mike Davis, City of Quartz), Socialist Review 143 (June 1991): 32.

“Union of Equals” (review of Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull, The Eclipse of Scottish Culture and Terry Brotherstone, ed., Covenant, Charter and Party), Socialist Review 136 (November 1990): 33-34.

“Stage in the Struggle” (review of 1871, directed by Ken McMullen), Socialist Review 135, October 1990: 31.