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Soundings Journal
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Common Interest - Politics
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Soundings pioneers thoughtful, critical ideas on culture, society and politics.
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Welcome to Soundings' facebook site. We're a journal of the left, with a long history going back to the New Left of the 1950s. It involved figures like Edward Thompson, Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall. Both Stuart and Mike Rustin were involved in writing the May Day Manifesto which was published in 1968 and which led to the development of a new kind of radical left politics. Along with Doreen Massey they're founding editors of Soundings.

Our editorial group is made up of three generations so we're evolving all the time. That's our tradition - creating new radical politics and ideas for each new generation. We're more than just a journal. We think getting ideas out to a wider public means using all the media available to us. We organise conferences and seminars, publish books and ebooks and papers, and run online debates. Each June we hold a Soundings event. It's not like a formal conference. It provides an opportunity for people to participate in discussion as well as listen to radical ideas, and also enjoy themselves.

Thanks for joining us, please use the site to post ideas and debates. Let us know what you're thinking about. We'll be posting articles and you can use the links to read the online debates we've held and read articles from past issues of Soundings. Come along to our events if you live in London. There is now an active group in Leeds and one starting up in Birmingham. Watch out for future events and details of new issues.

Jonathan Rutherford

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ISSUE 42 The killing fields of inequality IS OUT NOW

The contemporary political scene is criss-crossed by systems of willed ignorance, the most obvious example being in the field of economics. Further examples discussed in this issue include government drugs policy, which remains impervious to research (Julia Buxton); the widespread refusal to acknowledge that inequality is a killer (Göran Therborn); the abdication of responsibility for workers that is allowed by employment subcontracting (Jane Wills); the denial that academies' exam results are skewed by selection (Terry Wrigley); the idea that health and welfare systems can be run on the basis of a repudiation of dependency (Tim Dartington).

Plus Guy Brown and Sarah Radcliffe on the unforeseen consequences of increasing lifespans; Hilary Cottam on 'Beveridge 4.0'; Robin Maynard on food security; Karel Williams on frames and conjunctures in economics; Ben Little on the millennial generation and politics; Bryan Gould on left politics; Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford on Demos.

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What others say about Soundings.
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/reviews.html

"Soundings have sounded for me quite a few ideas which I wouldn't be able to fathom on my own. And they go on doing it - for which I am immensely grateful."
Zygmunt Bauman

"Soundings is defining the new politics - spread the word"
John Cruddas MP

"Soundings is one of the few places I know I will find serious radical thinking. Fearless, edgy and more necessary than ever."
Suzanne Moore, Columnist, Mail on Sunday

"Deeply thoughtful about the public life of politics and the intimacy of our private lives and how they interconnect. Soundings is one of the few places where you read ideas which can change your mind."
Madeleine Bunting

Soundings Journal is published three times a year in book form. Annual subscription is £35.

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Editor: Jonathan Rutherford
Managing Editor: Sally Davison
Editorial board: Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin (founding editors), Geoff Andrews, Sarah Benton and Jo Littler
Reviews Editor: Jo Littler
Poetry Editor: Ruth Borthwick
Art Editor: Tim Davison