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John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940) was an 'economist' who conceptualised modern imperialism for the first time. Though never formally accepted in academia, he could never be ignored, as he overwhelmed ...

This signature text, for which the Labour leader wrote a foreword, is inseparable from Hobson’s antisemitism In his 1902 book Imperialism, the radical journalist John Atkinson Hobson called out the ...

Features The historical left really was ‘for the many, not the Jew’ John Hobson’s antisemitic 1902 work, ‘Imperialism’, praised by Jeremy Corbyn, cannot be relativised as mere outdated thinking. It is ...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn today said some of the language in a book for which he wrote the foreword as "absolutely deplorable". Mr Corbyn spoke after he came under fire for penning a foreword to a ...

Historian Tristram Hunt explores the surprising tale of a largely forgotten English journalist and economist, John Atkinson Hobson, and the book he wrote which inspired Lenin. Hobson was a bourgeois ...