Martin Jacques

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Martin Jacques was editor of Marxism Today till its closure in 1991. He is co-founder of the think-tank Demos. He has been a columnist for the Times and Sunday Times and was deputy editor of the Independent. He is the co-editor and co-author of 'The Forward March of Labour Halted?' (1981), 'The Politics of Thatcherism' (1983) and 'New Times' (1989). Currently he is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. During the last year he has been a visiting professor at the International Centre for Chinese Studies at Aichi University in Japan, a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing and a senior visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is writing a book about Asian modernity and the rise of China. He is a columnist for The Guardian.