Barnaby Raine
Born
Barnaby Simon Max Raine

May 1995
Kensington and Chelsea, London, England
Alma mater
Years active2010–present

Barnaby Simon Max Raine (born May 1995) is an English intellectual historian.[1] He is known for his political commentary.

Early life and education

Raine grew up in North London. His great-grandparents had fled to England from Poland and Russia.[2] He is the son of businessman Henry Raine.[3]

Raine attended Westminster School.[4] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics from Wadham College, Oxford in 2016.[5] In 2014, Raine led a boycott of the Oxford Union in light of allegations made against its then president Ben Sullivan.[6] He also protested against Marine Le Pen's visit in 2015.[7] In his final year at Oxford, Raine sat on the National Executive Committee of the National Union of Students (NUS).[8]

After graduating from Oxford, Raine went on to complete a Master of Arts in History at Columbia University in 2018, and is currently writing his PhD on the end of capitalism. He was awarded a 2020 International Dissertation Research Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).[9]

Career

Raine became Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in 2020.[10][1] By 2023, Raine was a member of the Salvage Editorial Collective[11] and had previously contributed to publications such as The Guardian, Jacobin, n+1, Vashti Media, Red Pepper, New Internationalist, RealClearPolitics, Socialist Worker, and Politics/Letters.[12][13] He has often made appearances on Novara Media's news livestreams on YouTube, and has occasionally guest-hosted the content.[14] In 2023, Raine participated in The World Transformed[15] as well as a Symposium on the Frankfurt School at the Goethe Institut.[16]

Activism

Raine became interested in politics and activism at a young age. He was 15 years old and in the midst of preparing for his GCSEs when he went viral on YouTube for making a speech in 2011 protesting the planned increase in university tuition fees.[17][18] He also took part in the Coalition of Resistance and Occupy London.[4] In an interview with DeWereldMorgen, he acknowledged his privileged background, and wanted to use his privilege to speak up about injustices, both in the UK and abroad.[2]

In 2014, Raine made a speech at a pro-Palestine protest in London as part of the Jewish Bloc Against Zionism.[19] He was interviewed by Stephen Dixon on Sky News.[20] While on the NUS NEC, Rained signed an open letter condemning Prevent.[21] He was a presenter at the 2016 Limmud Conference.[22]

In a 2017 interview with Al Jazeera, Raine described himself as a "firm anti-Zionist", and called Israel "instilling [oppression] with gruesome violence" a "betrayal" of Jewish values, which he believed to be "mending the world" and standing "at the forefront of struggles against oppression and exploitation".[23]

Select essays

  • "Socialism for Jingoes" (2017) in Salvage
  • "It Moves! A Trotskyist in the NHS" (2018) in n+1
  • "Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser" (2019) in Politics/Letters
  • "Jewphobia" (2019) in Salvage
  • "Left Fukuyamaism: Politics in Tragic Times" (2022) in Salvage

References

  1. 1 2 Oshan Jarrow (7 December 2020). "Capitalism and the Self with Barnaby Raine". Music Mind. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Barnaby Raine, de Mozart van de speech". DeWereldMorgen (in Flemish). 12 April 2011.
  3. ↑ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-londoner-jeremy-corbyn-collects-a-curious-clique-a3907406.html#:~:text=Barnaby%20Raine%2C%20who%20has%20appeared,affairs%20at%20Wonga%2C%20Henry%20Raine
  4. 1 2 "LONDON: Starbucks, Star Pupils and Protest". Eric Ellis. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  5. ↑ Raine, Barnaby. "Barnaby Raine: Tolerance and Liberalism: The Politics of Permission". The Oxford Left Review. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  6. ↑ Fenton, Siobhan (28 May 2014). "'Rival Union' organised by boycotting students". The Tab. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  7. ↑ Henley, Jon; Ullah, Areeb (5 February 2015). "Marine Le Pen's Oxford university speech delayed by protesters". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  8. ↑ Reisz, Matthew (17 February 2016). "Should there be a right to offend on campus?". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "Fellows & Grantees: Barnaby Raine". Social Science Research Council. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  10. ↑ "Barnaby Raine". Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "About". Salvage. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  12. ↑ "Barnaby Raine". MuckRack. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  13. ↑ Blakeley, Grace (27 April 2022). "A World to Win 78. War and Inter-Imperialism w/ Barnaby Raine". Tribune. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  14. ↑ Fortune, Rowan (30 November 2021). "The Patel Police State". ACR. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  15. ↑ "Anti-imperialism in the 21st century". TWT23. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  16. ↑ "100 Years Later: the Frankfurt School and the Now — Symposium Schedule and Participants". The Brooklyn Institute. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  17. ↑ Bell, Matthew (20 February 2011). "Class action: The new faces of student protest". The Independent. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  18. ↑ "Barnaby Raine Makes Sense Of The Police, Media, And The Student Fees Protest". Anorak. 12 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  19. ↑ Robbins, Annie (9 August 2014). "'We are all Palestinian'". Mondoweiss. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  20. ↑ "Video: Barnaby Raine and Mona Dohle comment on the Gaza solidarity movement". RS21. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  21. ↑ "PREVENT will have a chilling effect on open debate, free speech and political dissent". The Independent. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  22. ↑ "Limmud Conference 2016 - Presenters". Limmud. 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  23. ↑ Mandhai, Shafik (2 November 2017). "What Balfour means to Jewish critics of Israel". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
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