The London Progressive Journal is a United Kingdom

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-based weekly online magazine covering domestic and international current affairs from a politically left-wing perspective. The magazine features regular reports from a number of disparate campaign groups, as well as regular contributions from a number of talented emerging journalists.

History

Since its inception in January 2008, the magazine has featured interviews with a number of prominent activists and politicians, including Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...

 http://www.londonprogressivejournal.com/issue/show/16?article_id=123, Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu ; is a former Israeli nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and kidnapped by...

 http://www.londonprogressivejournal.com/issue/show/26?article_id=187, John Pilger

John Pilger

John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker, based in London. He has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US....

 http://www.londonprogressivejournal.com/issue/show/2?article_id=11, John McDonnell MP http://www.londonprogressivejournal.com/issue/show/1?article_id=8 , Antonio Navarro Wolff

Antonio Navarro Wolff

Antonio Navarro Wolff is a Colombian politician and former commander of the 19th of April Movement guerrilla group, which demobilized and formed a political party which he also led...

 http://www.londonprogressivejournal.com/issue/show/50?article_id=333 and Ilan Pappe http://www.londonprogressivejournal.com/issue/show/64?article_id=410 It has been especially prolific on Latin American issues and has published a number of articles by George Monbiot

George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot is an English writer, known for his environmental and political activism. He lives in Machynlleth, Wales, writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and is the author of a number of books, including Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain and Bring on the...

, Ramzy Baroud and James Suggett, among others.

The magazine, which is not linked with any political party, has been publishing since January 2008.

Editors

2008 - June 2011: Nathaniel Mehr

Nathaniel Mehr

Nathaniel Mehr is a leftwing British journalist whose has written for several publications including The Morning Star newspaper and Tribune magazine and Red Pepper....

June 2011 - Present: Tomasz Pioerscionek and Emmeline Ravilious