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Norgath Posted: Tue, Sep 11 2012 1:35 PM

I've been looking for this website that I heard about on here, it was british (I think) and had atleast a marxist founding. The anti war articles were pretty good and I cant for the life of me remember what it was called. I think the theme was a purple color but I cant remember.

Thanks all

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Norgath replied on Wed, Sep 12 2012 2:48 PM
Any help would be appreciated.
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Autolykos replied on Wed, Sep 12 2012 3:03 PM

Are you talking about Counterpunch?

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one of these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_left-wing_publications_in_the_United_Kingdom

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Norgath replied on Wed, Sep 12 2012 4:07 PM

Its a website, I think the background is purple but I cant remember. And its not counterpunch, the name might have started with an "s."

Ive actually looked through that list mutliple times Dave, but I appeciate it, thank you.

 

 

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Cortes replied on Wed, Sep 12 2012 9:43 PM

http://www.spiked-online.com

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Yeah, a lot of their stuff is a pretty nice read.

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Norgath replied on Wed, Sep 12 2012 11:00 PM

Yes! Thank you very much Cortes. Thank god, I've been looking for this for months.

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Marko replied on Wed, Sep 12 2012 11:49 PM

Spiked-online is in my Top 3 websites. Also their chief editor's blog is good: link

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Marko replied on Sat, Sep 22 2012 10:15 AM

Also check out the archives of the precusor to Spiked-Online, the LM Magazine.

Archive by subjects: http://web.archive.org/web/19991008021216/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM_Index/index.html

Archive by issues: http://web.archive.org/web/19991004103758/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/research/index.html

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BBC?

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On the left the BBC is accused of being a right-wing propaganda machine, and on the right it is accused of being Marxist. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but as Nye Bevan used to say; 

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."

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Now I remember why I don't tend to read sp!ked much. In response to the death of Thomas Szasz they reprint an essay from...Peter Sedgwick?  There may be valid critiques of Szasz but Peter Sedgwick of all people was not the one to make them.  Sedgwick's lame brand of academic neo-Marxism was hardly bearable when he was alive, and this is the best you can bring to print in 2012?

And lest we forget their tag line:
 

Following the death of Thomas Szasz, we republish an extract from Peter Sedgwick’s critique of anti-psychiatry’s leading light.

 

I guess that book Szasz wrote debunking that whole notion got passed over for editorial convenience.

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Marko replied on Fri, Oct 26 2012 1:34 PM

Spiked-online talks to Gerard Casey, author of Libertarian Anarchy, whom you know from his recent speech at the Mises Institute and interview by Tom Woods, read the piece here: Ireland's anarchist professor — Do we really need the state at all?

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