Meet the Editors
After posting a Call for Editors earlier in the year and receiving fantastic and incredibly encouraging responses from all the applicants, Ebb has now assembled its first Editorial Board to oversee the direction of the online magazine and its burgeoning books press. The quality of the Editorial Board and every single one of the Editors has already been demonstrated in the marked increase in quality of our articles and reviews as well as both the variety of forms and content that we have published this year, and I’m confident that this will only continue to increase over time. We have plenty of projects that we’re yet to announce in the coming months, including more books by historical figures and first-time authors along with other collaborative projects, but in the meantime you’ll find below a brief introduction to all of the Editors who now make up Ebb.
Thank you to every one of our readers for your support, in particular to our Patreons and to everyone who has purchased copies of our books.
Alfie Hancox is a History PhD student at the University of Birmingham researching Black Power and the left in Britain. He writes about anti-imperialism, debates in British Marxism, the New Left, Leninism, and Labour movement history. In his free time he enjoys birdwatching.
Azfar Shafi is a London-based researcher with a focus on policing, counter-terrorism and imperialism. He has organised around issues such as surveillance, gentrification and Palestine solidarity.
His first book, Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Antiracism, co-authored with Ilyas Nagdee, was published with Pluto Books this year.
Carlos Cruz Mosquera is an associate teacher at Queen Mary University and PhD candidate investigating the role of the European Union in Colombia’s peace process. He is a co-founder of ANTICONQUISTA and Red Condor Collective, organisations that provide financial support for radical Latin American activist groups.
Daniel Frost is a university worker based in south London, and a member of UCU. His writing has been published by New Socialist, red pepper, and History Workshop Online, and his research focuses upon left-wing activism in twentieth-century Croydon.
Lewis Hodder is a Founding Editor at Ebb. His writing can be found in Ebb Magazine, Liberated Texts, and ArtCritical, where it covers philosophy, aesthetics, and politics, from the Frankfurt School to workers’ councils.
His next project, Residues of Practice, critically examines what relationship critical philosophy has to practice by looking at the work of Gilles Deleuze, Mark Fisher, and others, and how this philosophy is dependent on increasingly crude caricatures of what came before it that comes to inhibit its own politics.
Louis Allday is a historian and writer. He is the Founding Editor of Liberated Texts. His writing has been published by Monthly Review, Electronic Intifada, Jadaliyya and ROAPE among others. He has a PhD in History which focused on how the British Council was used by Britain as a tool of cultural propaganda in the Arab Gulf States.
Sylvia McCheyne is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sheffield. Her PhD research focuses on the political economy and labour relations of trans women at work. Her writing has been featured in New Socialist, Ebb Magazine and i-D and she has presented for Historical Materialism. Her work covers issues of social conservatism and inequalities in various left-wing movements in Britain.