Dr Jim Wolfreys
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Contact: jim.wolfreys@kcl.ac.ukJim Wolfreys is a graduate of Liverpool University and obtained a PhD from the History department there in 1995. He lectures in French politics in the French department and also teaches on the European Studies MA. He is Director of European Studies.
A member of the editorial board of International Socialism, his research on contemporary French politics has focused on fascism, the left and political corruption. He is currently working on the history of the French labour movement.
Selected Publications
History and Revolution: Refuting Revisionism (ed. with M Haynes) (London: Verso, 2007)
'France in revolt: 1995 - 2005’, International Socialism 109, Winter, 2006, pp.3-29.
The Politics of Racism in France (revised and updated second edition, with P Fysh) (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003)
‘Sur les pas du FN: le British National Party’, Contretemps 8, September, 2003, pp. 39-47.
‘Beyond the mainstream: la gauche de la gauche’ in J Evans (ed) Changes in the French Party System (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 91-104
‘The disposable heroes of hypocrisy’, review article on Dominique Lecourt, The Mediocracy. French Philosophy since the mid-1970s, International Socialism, Autumn 2002
‘A cat without a grin: the French right returns to office’, Radical Philosophy, September 2002
‘“The centre cannot hold”: fascism, the left and the crisis in French politics’, International Socialism, Summer 2002
‘Shoes, lies and videotape: corruption and the French state’, Modern and Contemporary France, 9 (4), 2001
‘In perspective: Pierre Bourdieu’, International Socialism, Summer, 2000
‘Controlling state crime in France,’ in Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed) Varieties of State Crime and its Control (New York: Criminal Justice Press, 2000)
‘In defence of Marxism’, review essay on Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness. Tailism and the Dialectic, International Socialism, Spring 2000
‘Class struggles in France,’ International Socialism, Autumn, 1999
The Politics of Racism in France (with Peter Fysh) (London: Macmillan, 1998)
‘Neither right nor left? Towards an integrated analysis of the Front National’, in Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallet, The Right in France 1789-1997 (London: IB Tauris, 1997)
'France in revolt: 1995 - 2005’, International Socialism 109, Winter, 2006, pp.3-29.
The Politics of Racism in France (revised and updated second edition, with P Fysh) (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003)
‘Sur les pas du FN: le British National Party’, Contretemps 8, September, 2003, pp. 39-47.
‘Beyond the mainstream: la gauche de la gauche’ in J Evans (ed) Changes in the French Party System (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 91-104
‘The disposable heroes of hypocrisy’, review article on Dominique Lecourt, The Mediocracy. French Philosophy since the mid-1970s, International Socialism, Autumn 2002
‘A cat without a grin: the French right returns to office’, Radical Philosophy, September 2002
‘“The centre cannot hold”: fascism, the left and the crisis in French politics’, International Socialism, Summer 2002
‘Shoes, lies and videotape: corruption and the French state’, Modern and Contemporary France, 9 (4), 2001
‘In perspective: Pierre Bourdieu’, International Socialism, Summer, 2000
‘Controlling state crime in France,’ in Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed) Varieties of State Crime and its Control (New York: Criminal Justice Press, 2000)
‘In defence of Marxism’, review essay on Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness. Tailism and the Dialectic, International Socialism, Spring 2000
‘Class struggles in France,’ International Socialism, Autumn, 1999
The Politics of Racism in France (with Peter Fysh) (London: Macmillan, 1998)
‘Neither right nor left? Towards an integrated analysis of the Front National’, in Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallet, The Right in France 1789-1997 (London: IB Tauris, 1997)
