theoretical debate

• OLD LEFT REVIEW A reply to Perry Anderson 2000
• exchange with Jacques Derrida at a meeting at Sussex 1997
• feedback from Christopher McDowell on mass displacement and Karim Karim on mass media.

issues in contemporary left politics

• John Pilger's Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq 2000
• The dead-end of anti-globalization protest? 2000
• Zimbabwe and the new divide in world politics 2000
• Pinochet justice must be seen to be done: comment on latest developments in the Pinochet case, 15 February 2000, with update, 3 March 2000.
• talk to an open meeting on the Kosova war, University of Sussex. 26 April 1999.
• critique of the New Statesman editorial line during the war. April 1999.

the politics of denial

• the degradation of intellectual capability: review of new book on media in Kosovo war 
• LM (Living Marxism) magazine claimed that images of Serbian concentration camps produced by ITN were fabrications: Ed Vulliamy, Poison in the well of history The Guardian 15 March 2000.
• Tony Blair seeks to minimise Russian crimes: 'Chechnya isn't Kosovo' Martin Shaw's comment, March 2000.
• John Pilger tries to minimise Serbian slaughter: 'Random brutality' and the denial of genocide Martin Shaw's letter, from New Statesman 22 November 1999.

'Martin Shaw is a propagandist, not a professor.' - John Pilger