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UKWatch’s Advisory Board

Our advisory board works with us to suggest new content, writers and site innovations. Members provide particular assistance in their area of expertise. They also help to promote UKWatch more generally.

Michael Albert

Michael is a longtime activist, speaker and writer. He co-founded Z Magazine, the publishers South End Press and the popular website ZNet With Robin Hahnel he has developed an alternative economic vision called Participatory Economics. His books include Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003), The Trajectory of Change (2002), Moving Forward (2001), Thinking Forward (1997) and Looking Forward (1990). There is an archive of his online work on ZNet.

Alex Callinicos

Alex is a professor of politics at the University of York. He is on the editorial boards of International Socialism and Historical Materialism journals and writes regularly for Socialist Worker. His books include The New Mandarins Of American Power (2003), An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (2003), Against The Third Way (2001), Equality (2000) and The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1996). He has been active in the anti-globalisation movement, participating in the World and European Social Forums.

David Cromwell

David is an oceanographer at the University of Southampton, a green activist and writer. He is co-editor of MediaLens and founded the Crisis Forum. He is the author of Private Planet (2001).

Mark Curtis

Mark is a former Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He has worked in the field of international development for the past ten years, including time as the head of policy at Christian Aid and as director of the World Development Movement. His books include Unpeople (2004), Web of Deceit (2003), The Great Deception (1998) and The Ambiguities of Power (1995).

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David Edwards

David is co-editor of Medialens. He is the author of The Compassionate Revolution: Radical Politics and Buddhism (1998) and Free To Be Human: Intellectual Self-Defence in an Age of Illusions (1995).

Eric Herring

Eric is a senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol’s politics department. He co-founded NASPIR – the Network of Activist Scholars of Politics and International Relations. He is a co-author of Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy (2005), and author of The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998) and Danger and Opportunity: Explaining International Crisis Outcomes (1995).

Olivier Hoedeman

Olivier is a member of the Corporate Europe Observatory – a European-based research and campaign group. He is a co-author of Europe Inc. Regional and Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power (2000).

David Miller

David is a professor of sociology at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He is on the editorial board of the Scottish Left Review and is co-editor of Spinwatch. His books include Open Scotland? (2001), Market Killing (2000), and Don’t Mention the War (1994). He edited Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq (2003) and Rethinking Northern Ireland (1998).

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John Pilger

John has been a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He has twice won British journalism’s highest award, Journalist of the Year, for his work with the Daily Mirror. Among a number of other awards, he has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the UN Association Media Peace Prize. His books include The New Rulers of the World (2002), Hidden Agendas (1998), Distant Voices (1992) and Heroes (1986). Most recently he edited Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs (2004). He has made more than 50 documentary films.

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Milan Rai

Milan is co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness UK and Justice Not Vengeance. He is author of Regime Unchanged: Why The War On Iraq Changed Nothing (2004), War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War (2002) and Chomsky’s Politics (1995). In 1993 he was awarded the Frank Cousins Peace Award for Research by the Transport and General Workers’ Union.

Hi Alex, cheers for commenting...

Just wondering in what way is ukwatch different to Znet?!

oisleep wrote:

i was going to say, is david miller swp, i didn't think he was?

Someone I know who's worked with him says yes. From my knowledge of him he's very close to them, at least, but has a mind of his own 8)

john wrote:

Surely one of the most important things for non-hierarchical politics is the creation of a non-hierarchical mode of organising/communicating (like libcom).

Don't make me laugh. If lib-com is non-hierarchical then where's the green and black smiley gone?

And john libcom exercises editorial control over all other parts of the site.