Richard Seymour (writer)

Richard Seymour (writer)

Richard Seymour (born 1977) is a British writer, activist and proprietor of the blog "Lenin's Tomb". He is the author of "The Liberal Defense of Murder". Seymour was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland to a Protestant family, and lives in London. He is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.cite web
url=http://leninology.blogspot.com/2004/01/about-lenins-tomb.html
title=About Lenin's Tomb
date=2004-01-01
publisher=Lenin's Tomb
accessdate=2008-04-07]

Lenin's Tomb

"Lenin's Tomb" is one of the best-known political blogs in the UK. It has existed since June 2003,cite web
url=http://www.mediabite.org/links.html
title=A shot at bias in the media
publisher=MediaBite
accessdate=2008-04-07] and was listed in 2005 as the 21st-most-popular blog in the country.cite web
url=http://britishblogs.blogspot.com/2005/02/top-ten-saturday-26-february-2005.html
title=Top Ten, Saturday 26 February, 2005
date=2005-02-26
publisher=BritishBlogs
accessdate=2008-04-07] Although run by Seymour, it also has front-page posts from other contributors, including, occasionally, China Mieville.cite web
url=http://leninology.blogspot.com/2005/08/politics-of-weather.html
title=The politics of weather
date=2005-08-29
first=China
last=Mieville
publisher=Lenin's Tomb
accessdate=2008-04-07] It has been cited by the BBC,cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4649043.stm
title=Music blogs close ears to Live 8
date=2005-07-04
first=Alan
last=Connor
publisher=BBC
accessdate=2008-04-07] "The Guardian", "Private Eye", and "Slate" magazine."Seymour, Richard. " [http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/seymour_r_the_liberal_defense_of_murder.shtml The Liberal Defense of Murder] " Verso Books, 2008] Seymour writes about "issues such as imperialism, Zionism, Islamophobia and anti-capitalism, and covers strikes and protests with footage, images and reportage".

References

Published works

* 2008 "The Liberal Defense of Murder". ISBN 978-1-84467-139-7, Verso Books.
* 2008 "The Genocidal Imagination of Christopher Hitchens", in "Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left". ISBN 0814716873, New York University Press. [ [http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/9780814716861_Cottee_toc.pdf Table of Contents] , for Simon Cottee & Thomas Cushman: "Christopher Hitchens and His Critics", NYU Press, New York 2008, ISBN 0814716873]

Selected articles

* [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/seymour261105.html "The Genocidal Imagination of Christopher Hitchens"] , "MRZine"
* [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/seymour100805.html "The Slaying of Jean Charles de Menezes"] , "MRZine"
* [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/seymour060408.html "The Sadrist Revolt"] , "MRZine"
* [http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9847 "Sudan: A Young Imperialist's Guide to Darfur"] , "Socialist Review"
* [http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=275&issue=113 "In the name of decency: the contortions of the pro-war left"] , "International Socialism Journal"
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/07/chris-harman-world-history "Taking Apart the West"] , "New Statesman"

External links

* [http://leninology.blogspot.com Lenin's Tomb]

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NAME=Seymour, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=lenin
SHORT DESCRIPTION=British blogger
DATE OF BIRTH=1976
PLACE OF BIRTH=Ballymena, Northern Ireland
DATE OF DEATH=
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