Here, published for the first time, is an extract from the renowned socialist cultural theorist Raymond Williams's famous ‘When Was Modernism?’ lecture, delivered at the University of Bristol in March 1987, and taken from the newly published Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism – the first Williams book for more than three decades to include new material.
An extract from the Introduction to this year’s Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism,the journal of the Raymond Williams Society. Robert Spencer and Christopher Vardy are editors of the special issue on ‘Crisis’ and argue below for urgent critical, theoretical, and political questions to be posed to greater understand how crises are understood and narrativized.
New Left Review recently republished a relatively unknown 1961 essay from Raymond Williams on the 'Future of Marxism'.In this article, Daniel Gerke responds to the article and offers an illuminating account of what is identified as the consistency of Williams’s internationalism.
