Archive of E. P. Thompson

Previously unpublished essay on the town of Halifax as a centre of Chartist activity by historians Dorothy Thompson and E.P. Thompson.

Trump’s election has raised the specter of nuclear war in a way unseen since the 1980s, the last time a global mass movement pushed back against the threat of nuclear catastrophe. One of the major intellectual forces behind that mass movement was E.P. Thompson. With the utopian hopes surrounding the ban treaty now meeting the actually existing dystopia of US policy, it is high time for an update to Thompson’s seminal concept of “exterminism.” 

Perry Anderson probes Edward Thompson's work on William Morris and his defense of utopianism.