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Audio: Neil Davidson on 1968

Join comrades and friends in an online event to remember Neil Davidson (1957-2020). Here we remember him with a talk he gave on the revolutionary upheavals of 1968.

Remembering Neil Davidson (1957-2020)

Join comrades and friends in an online event to remember Neil Davidson who died on 3 May 2020. Neil was a socialist militant and a highly innovative Marxist historian and sociologist, a member of rs21, a prominent figure in the Scottish left and a lecturer at Glasgow University.

Obituary: Neil Davidson, 1957–2020

Neil Davidson, who died on 3 May 2020, was a socialist militant and the foremost Scottish intellectual of his generation. Obituary by Raymond Morrell.

Memories of Neil Davidson (1957-2020)

Neil Davidson, who died on 3 May 2020, was family, friend, comrade and mentor to many around the world; an activist; a Marxist thinker...

Neil Davidson (1957-2020)

We are deeply saddened to announce the death of our comrade and friend, Neil Davidson. We send our condolences to his family, in particular to his partner Cathy Watkins. A full obituary will follow.

Neil Davidson on the crisis in the SWP

Neil Davidson spoke at a meeting in Edinburgh on 3 November 2013, organised by the Rebuilding the Party faction of the Socialist Workers Party.
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ISJ: Neil Davidson on the neoliberal era in Britain

An analysis of the neoliberal period poses some crucial questions as to how revolutionaries move forward today.
Tories in crisis: what comes next? Neil Davidson

Video: Tories in crisis – what comes next?

Watch Marxist historian and author Neil Davidson discuss the establishment's triple crisis of strategy, party and state - and its potential outcomes.

Tories in crisis: what comes next?

rs21 is holding an open forum discussion on 29 June in Central London on the next few months in British politics and how the left can act strategically for maximum effect. Neil Davidson will kick off the discussion with an analysis of the roots of the crisis and its potential outcomes.

Video: The right in Latin America

Watch Mike Gonzalez, Neil Davidson and activists from ResistBrazil discuss the social and political situation in Latin America

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Review: Radical Happiness

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Interview: Organised and disorganised labour in the Belarus uprising

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Interview: Beirut blast exposed a global system

Rima Majed spoke to rs21 about the blast that devastated Beirut in the context of an existing political and economic crisis.

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