"new times"

[John Gulick]

A recent edition (the most recent edition ?) of the British
Third Worldist/anti-imperialist journal _Race and Class_ celebrated
the 25th anniversary of the journal and the activism/theory
of its founder/editor, A. Sivanandan. The edition includes some
supportive assessments of Sivanandan's scathing late 1980's 
critiques of "New Times" (in a nutshell Sivanandan established
connections between New Times'ers status as "tenured radicals" and
their advocacy of a politics of yuppie consumerism, or something
like that). I know little or nothing about the precise lineages
of various post-modernisms and post-Marxisms, but there seems
also to be some affinities between New Times and the more "mandarin"
versions of "post-colonial" theory (although I could be off here).

Somebody mentioned that Martin Jacques has changed his stripes and
now offers defenses of so-called CCP "hard-liners" -- not the usual
direction most opportunistic ambulance chasers on the scholarly left
go these days. Any other interesting tales out there about unpredictable
turns taken by proto-Third Way'ers once Third Way governments took state
power ?

John Gulick

At 03:44 PM 2/12/00 -0600, you wrote:


>Hey LBO-ers:
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>Who can tell me about the "New Times" movement in the UK? What was it,
>what became of it, and where can I read about it?
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>tcf
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