The Spokesman

The Spokesman is a British left-wing quarterly magazine. The magazine was founded in 1970 by the Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell,[1] and was edited for 40 years by the British left-wing MEP Ken Coates, who died in 2010.[2] After Coates' death, The Independent wrote that the journal was "still flourishing".[3] The current editor is Tony Simpson.[4]

It is published in Nottingham by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.[4] The Spokesman features independent journalism on peace and nuclear disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary politics.[5]

Contributors have included leading Western writers, journalists and intellectuals such as Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John le Carré, Trevor Griffiths, Stuart Holland and Kurt Vonnegut.[6]

References

  1. ^ "War is Peace by Ken Coates, Arundhati Roy | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com.
  2. ^ Palmer, John (June 29, 2010). "Ken Coates obituary" – via The Guardian.
  3. ^ "Ken Coates: Tireless writer and activist for numerous left-wing causes | The Independent | The Independent".
  4. ^ a b James Walker (11 October 2016). "Nottingham's Most Peaceful Publishers, Spokesman Books". Leftlion. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  5. ^ An Awkward Customer, Red Pepper, July 2010
  6. ^ "Home - Spokesman books".
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