Marxism Today was the theoretical journal

Magazine

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 of the Communist Party of Great Britain

Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.-Formation:...

 and was disestablished in 1991. It was particularly important during the 1980s under the editorship of Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques is a British former magazine editor and academic. He was born and raised in Coventry. He was an undergraduate student at Manchester University, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree, and subsequently studied for a PhD at King's College, Cambridge.He was editor of the...

. Through Marxism Today Jacques, amongst others, coined the term Thatcherism

Thatcherism

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 and believed they were deconstructing the ideology of the government of the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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, Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

, through their theory of New Times

New Times (politics)

New Times was a short-lived intellectual movement among leftists in Great Britain. It was centred on the Eurocommunist faction of the Communist Party of Great Britain , and most of the intellectual groundwork for the movement was laid out in the latter party's official theoretical journal, Marxism...

. It was also a venue for the influential British Cultural Studies of Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)

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.

A "special issue" was published in 1998, seven years after the journal's demise. Until 1998, the New Statesman

New Statesman

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magazine described itself on an inside page as "incorporating" Marxism Today (among other titles).

External links

• Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust website All the issues of the journal from 1980 to 1991 are available in digital format copyright free (CC copyright). The site also includes an article on the journal's history by Martin Jacques.