M-TH: Re: British left and intelligence agencies thread

[Michael Pugliese]

Chris Burford writes:     >I think there is also reasonable circumstantial evidence that the present .   >New Labour cabinet was significantly influenced by Marxism Today in the     >1980's. Under Martin Jacques this was a banner of a radical Gramscian     >agenda to rewin ideological hegemony, even at the expense of thinking the     >unthinkable, including that there might be reasons for Mrs Thatcher's     >popularity.           Good point (along with the rest of your post on conspiracy theorising, sometimes though a few useful nuggets of political dirt can be found in those precincts) On the above, as a reader of Marxism Today back in the early 80's, I followed the debates occasioned by Stuart Hall  and Eric Hobsbawm with great interest. Cruising the web a while back I found a site for the magazine,"Soundings," with an interesting set of contributors and editors all(???) in New Labour/Blairite territory. The Gramsci graphic background on the site is awfully good looking. Can Chris Burford expand on this magazine and it's project for us Yanks, along with the other fragments of the post-split CPGB into Democratic Left, Morning Star and other fractions and factions and tendencies?                                                                         Michael Pugliese