Alex Doherty

<p>Alex Doherty is co-editor of <a href="http://www.newleftproject.org/">New Left Project</a> and is currently pursuing a masters in war studies at King's College London.</p>

Mandela and Cuba: another memory hole

Recognition of the role of Cuba in aiding the ANC whilst the western powers backed apartheid is hardly serviceable in maintaining the conventional Cold War narrative. Hence the media's impressive avoidance of the context of the Castro-Obama handshake and its significance.

By Alex Doherty

/ 21 Dec 2013

Reconsidering the failure of the anti-Iraq war march

Ten years on from the largest public demonstration in British history, NLP’s Alex Doherty spoke to Ian Sinclair, author of the new book The march that shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February 2003.

By Alex Doherty and Ian Sinclair

/ 15 Feb 2013

British and American empire: patterns of power

Despite its claims of 'exceptionalism', the US empire is following in the footsteps of Britain and other European imperial forebears. Alex Doherty interviews the author of new book,'Patterns of Empire'.

By Julian Go and Alex Doherty

/ 25 Jan 2013