Richard Seymour is the author of Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens (2012), American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism (2012), The Meaning of David Cameron (2010) and The Liberal Defence of Murder (2008). He writes regularly for The Guardian and runs the popular blog Lenin's Tomb.
Richard Seymour, Against Austerity: How We Can Fix the Crisis They Made. Pluto Press 2014.
Should the left abandon the Green New Deal? ZNet, 20 November 2021
The internet was built for connection – how did it go so wrong?, ZNet, 21 October 2021
The British Establishment Is Losing Its Mind Over Afghanistan by Richard Seymour and Luke Savage, Jacobin, 29 August 2021
No future: the English Left in retrospect, Al Jazeera, 29 December 2020
Why is the nationalist right hallucinating a ‘communist enemy'? The Guardian, 26 September 2020
The nationalist unconscious, Red Pepper, 29 June 2020
The polling industry doesn't measure public opinion – it produces it, The Guardian, 20 September 2019
The crisis of Conservatism by James Butler and Richard Seymour, Red Pepper, 6 September 2019
A dark appetite for adventure is driving Britain’s hardline Brexit folly, The Guardian, 2 September 2019
Nigel Farage Is the Most Dangerous Man in Britain, The New York Times, 28 May 2019
The climate strike is a source for hope – but new research shows it might be too late, Independent, 16 March 2019
Making Facebook pay for its own downfall, Patreon, 23 August 2018
No, this Netanyahu row won't destroy Corbyn – it will only make him stronger, Independent, 14 August 2018
The apocalyptic tone of heatwave-reporting doesn't go far enough – not when the issue is human extinction, Independent, 5 August 2018
Climate: Prepare for the worst, Patreon, 8 July 2018
No, AMLO Is Not Mexico’s Trump, Jacobin, 3 July 2018
Our very British fake news industry, Patreon, 21 February 2018
The Real Winston Churchill, Jacobin, 11 January 2018
Donald Trump, the original sapiosexual, Patreon, 7 January 2018
After such unexpected success in 2017, what does Jeremy Corbyn have planned for 2018? Independent, 30 December 2017
Labour, Tories and the polls, Patreon, 12 December 2017
Corbyn: shifting the possible, MR Online, 10 June 2017
The Left Must Save Labour, Jacobin, 19 April 2017
‘Mourning and Militancy’ Richard Seymour interviewed by Michael D. Yates, Monthly Review, March 2017
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman review – visionary ideas for a dark time, The Guardian, 22 February 2017
The Left, Corbyn and Labour's Future: Interview with Alex Nunns, Salvage, 8 February 2017
Against omniscience, Lenin's Tomb, 31 January 2017
A heatwave in the Arctic, a Trump in the White House by Richard Seymour, Al Jazeera, 10 January 2017
The Bastards Live, Jacobin, 24 September 2016
Can Corbyn survive the coup? Socialist Worker, 21 September 2016
Can Corbyn build a 'social movement'? Lenin's Tomb, 10 August 2016
Building a Corbyn Majority, Jacobin, 13 July 2016
Sadiq Khan's victory and free Londonistan, Al Jazeera, 8 May 2016
The Campaign Against Corbyn, Jacobin, 21 September 2015
How Jeremy Corbyn Can Win, Jacobin, 13 September 2015
Europe's Lethal Fortress, Jacobin, 32 September 2015
Jeremy Corbyn vs. Project Fear, Jacobin, 27 July 2015
Immigration, The World Today with Tariq Ali)/teleSUR, June 2015 (video)
The End of Labour, Jacobin, 8 May 2015
Bye Bye Labour, CounterPunch, 24 April 2015
Immigration & the far right: Media review, Tariq Ali TV, 14 March 2015 (video)
On Charlie Hebdo, Jacobin, 7 January 2015
Why is there so much hostility to immigrants in the UK? The Guardian, 14 October 2014
Bombs won't solve the Isis problem, The Guardian, 15 September 2014
Zero-hours contracts, and the sharp whip of insecurity that controls us all, The Guardian, 1 May 2014
The real story of 'looting' after a disaster like typhoon Haiyan, The Guardian, 15 November 2013