Renewal (journal)

Infobox Newspaper
name = Renewal


type = Journal
format = Magazine
foundation = 1993
owners = Renewal Ltd
political = social democrat / democratic socialist
headquarters = London, United Kingdom
editor = Martin McIvor
website = [http://www.renewal.org.uk http://www.renewal.org.uk]

"Renewal" is a British left-wing political journal, published in London, England, by Lawrence and Wishart.

"Renewal" was founded in 1993 as the journal of the Labour Coordinating Committee in the wake of the Labour Party's fourth successive election defeat. It established itself as an influential forum for debate among Labour Party 'modernisers' [Andrew Adonis, 'Blair and the brains', "The Observer", 12 January 1997; [http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/jan/15/publicservices.politics 'Devolving public services must be "Labour aim"', "The Guardian", 15 January 2003] ; [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,914288,00.html Tom Happold, 'Critical voices', "The Guardian", 14 March 2003] ] under the editorship of Neal Lawson and Paul Thompson, with contributors including Robin Cook, Gordon Brown, Michael Walzer, Zygmunt Bauman and Hilary Wainwright. Over time its editors took an increasingly critical approach towards Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party [Robin Cook, "The Point of Departure - Diaries from the Front Bench", Simon & Schuster, 2003, pp. 302-3; [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1279153,00.html 'Fomer Labour allies round on Blair', "The Guardian", 9 August 2004] ] and were instrumental in the foundation of the pressure group Compass.

In 2007 "Renewal" was relaunched as 'a journal of social democracy' under a refreshed Editorial Board including Anthony Barnett, Madeleine Bunting, Jon Cruddas, John Harris, David Marquand, David Miliband, Ed Miliband, Fiona Millar, John Monks, Richard Sennett, Jon Trickett, Roberto Unger, and Erik Olin Wright. Recent issues have featured Sheri Berman, Ross McKibbin, Frances O'Grady, Conor Gearty, and Michael Hardt.

References

External links

* [http://www.renewal.org.uk/ Renewal official website]
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,914254,00.html Neal Lawson and Paul Thompson write on Renewal's ten year anniversary]
* [http://www.compassonline.org.uk/article.asp?n=965 David Coates writes on Gordon Brown in Renewal's 2007 relaunch issue]