Clifford Slapper
Clifford Slapper graduated from London University in 1984 with a First Class Honours degree in Modern History, and was awarded the Sir William Meyer award for the best degree score at the university that year. He became an activist for the Socialist Party of Great Britain and stood as a candidate in Islington in 1983, as the youngest candidate in the UK, at age 21.
He has worked as a teacher, musician and writer. He is a published author in the field of social and cultural history, and wrote the first and only biography of Mike Garson, the highly acclaimed "Bowie's Piano Man", which has been very well reviewed. He has also written hundreds of articles and reviews for the Socialist Standard and other magazines, and his writing has also featured in the Guardian, the Irish Times and elsewhere. He has been interviewed on national radio as well as BBC London many times, as well as for television programmes in London and Manchester.
His special interests include: the decadence of capitalist culture; the persistent relevance of marxist social analysis; the mutability of human behaviour; the persistence and resilience of human co-operation; the increasing prevalence of addictions within capitalist society; the nature of the global elite and the scope of their power, privilege and wealth in comparison with the other 99.9 per cent of the world's population; the nature of socialism as a practical alternative, founded on the abolition of all property and exchange systems and therefore the absence of money in any form.
He has also spoken in many public debates throughout the UK and beyond, against speakers from almost every political party of the capitalist spectrum, including the self-proclaimed "socialists" of capitalism's statist and reformist left wing.
He has worked as a teacher, musician and writer. He is a published author in the field of social and cultural history, and wrote the first and only biography of Mike Garson, the highly acclaimed "Bowie's Piano Man", which has been very well reviewed. He has also written hundreds of articles and reviews for the Socialist Standard and other magazines, and his writing has also featured in the Guardian, the Irish Times and elsewhere. He has been interviewed on national radio as well as BBC London many times, as well as for television programmes in London and Manchester.
His special interests include: the decadence of capitalist culture; the persistent relevance of marxist social analysis; the mutability of human behaviour; the persistence and resilience of human co-operation; the increasing prevalence of addictions within capitalist society; the nature of the global elite and the scope of their power, privilege and wealth in comparison with the other 99.9 per cent of the world's population; the nature of socialism as a practical alternative, founded on the abolition of all property and exchange systems and therefore the absence of money in any form.
He has also spoken in many public debates throughout the UK and beyond, against speakers from almost every political party of the capitalist spectrum, including the self-proclaimed "socialists" of capitalism's statist and reformist left wing.
