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{{Short description|British journalist (1937–2004)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Paul Foot
| birth_name         = Paul Mackintosh Foot
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1937|11|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Haifa]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2004|7|18|1937|11|8|df=yes}}
| death_place        = [[Stansted Mountfitchet]], England
| resting_place      = [[Highgate Cemetery]]
| occupation         = [[Investigative journalism|Investigative journalist]], campaigner, author
| party              = [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)|Socialist Workers Party]]
| education          = {{ubl|[[Shrewsbury School]]|[[University College, Oxford]]}}
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Monica Beckinsale|1962|1970}}
* {{marriage|Rose Roseanne Harvey|1971|1993}}
}}
| partner            = Clare Fermont (?–?)
| children           = 4, including [[John Foot (historian)|John]]
| father             = [[Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon]]
| mother             = Florence Sylvia Tod
| relatives          = [[Sarah Foot (journalist)|Sarah Foot]] (sister)<br />[[Oliver Foot]] (brother)<br />[[Isaac Foot]] (grandfather)<br />[[Dingle Foot|Sir Dingle Foot]] (uncle)<br />[[John Foot, Baron Foot|The Lord Foot]] (uncle)<br />[[Michael Foot]] (uncle)
}}

'''Paul Mackintosh Foot''' (8 November 1937 – 18 July 2004) was a British [[investigative journalist]], political campaigner, author, and long-term member of the [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)|Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP).

==Early life and education==
Foot was born in [[Haifa]] during the [[Mandate for Palestine|British mandate]].<ref name="ODNB">{{cite encyclopedia|author=Richard Stott |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=94036&back=&version=2009-01 |title=Foot, Paul Mackintosh|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=January 2009|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He was the son of [[Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon|Sir Hugh Foot]] (who was the last Governor of [[Cyprus]] and Jamaica and, as Lord Caradon, the [[Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations]] from 1964 to 1970) and the grandson of [[Isaac Foot]], who had been a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] MP. He was a nephew of [[Michael Foot]], later [[Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|leader]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]],<ref name="Economist2004">[https://www.economist.com/obituary/2004/07/29/paul-foot "Obituary: Paul Foot"], ''[[The Economist]]'', 29 July 2004.</ref> to whom the younger Foot was close. He spent his youth at his uncle's house in [[Devon]], in Italy with his grandmother and with his parents (who lived abroad) in Cyprus and Jamaica.

He was sent to what he described as "a ludicrously snobbish preparatory school ([[Ludgrove School|Ludgrove]]) and an only slightly less absurd public school, [[Shrewsbury School|Shrewsbury]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Foot|first=Paul|title=Words as Weapons: Selected Writing 1980–1990|location=London|publisher=Verso|year=1990|page=ix|isbn=0-86091-527-1}}</ref> Contemporaries at Shrewsbury included [[Richard Ingrams]], [[Willie Rushton]], [[Christopher Booker]], and several other friends with whom he later become involved in ''[[Private Eye (magazine)|Private Eye]]''.

[[Anthony Chenevix-Trench]], later the Headmaster of [[Eton College]], was Foot's Housemaster at Shrewsbury School between 1952 and 1955, a time when corporal punishment in all schools was commonplace.<ref name="LRBFoot">{{cite news|last=Foot|first=Paul|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n17/paul-foot/diary|title=Diary|journal=London Review of Books|volume=18|issue=17|date=5 September 1996|access-date=22 June 2022}}</ref> In adult life, Foot exposed the ritual beatings that Chenevix-Trench had given. [[Nick Cohen]] wrote in Foot's obituary in ''[[The Observer]]'':<blockquote>"Even by the standards of England's public schools, Anthony Chenevix-Trench, his housemaster at Shrewsbury, was a flagellomaniac. Foot recalled, 'He would offer his culprit an alternative: four strokes with the cane, which hurt; or six with the strap, with trousers down, which didn't. Sensible boys always chose the strap, despite the humiliation, and Trench, quite unable to control his glee, led the way to an upstairs room, which he locked, before hauling down the miscreant's trousers, lying him face down on a couch and lashing out with a belt."<ref name="observer_cohen">{{cite news|last= Cohen|first=Nick|title= The epistles of Saint Paul|newspaper=The Observer|date=25 July 2004|url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/jul/25/1 |access-date= 22 October 2009}} Nick Cohen quotes from Foot's 1996 ''London Review of Books'' article.</ref></blockquote> Foot first detailed Chenevix-Trench's behaviour for ''Private Eye'' in 1969, an experience described by Cohen as one of Foot's happiest days in journalism.<ref name="observer_cohen" /><ref name="LRBFoot" />

After his [[National service#United Kingdom|national service]] in Jamaica, Foot was reunited with Ingrams at [[University College, Oxford|University College]] at the [[University of Oxford]], where he read jurisprudence,<ref name="ODNB"/> and wrote for ''[[Isis magazine|Isis]]'', one of the student publications at the university. He briefly edited ''Isis'', resulting in the publication being temporarily banned by the university authorities after Foot began to publish articles that found fault with university lectures.<ref name="ODNB"/>

==Years in Glasgow==
{{More citations needed|section|date=December 2017}}
Via his [[Michael Foot|uncle]], Paul Foot made the acquaintance of [[Hugh Cudlipp]], the editorial director of Mirror Group Newspapers, who offered him a job with the company and Foot joined the ''[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]'' in Glasgow. He was expected "to sort out the Trots" in his journalism,<ref name="ODNB"/> but instead the experience of living in the Scottish city changed his whole outlook.

Foot met workers from shipyards and engineering firms who had joined the [[Labour Party Young Socialists|Young Socialists]]. He read, for the first time, [[Karl Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Rosa Luxemburg]], [[Leon Trotsky]], and the multi-volume biography of Trotsky by [[Isaac Deutscher]].

While living in Glasgow he met [[Tony Cliff]], "an ebullient Palestinian Jew". Cliff argued that Russia was [[State capitalism#Trotskyists|state capitalist]] and that Russian workers were cut off from economic and political power as much as, if not more than, those in the West. Persuaded by what he heard and saw, in 1963 Foot joined the [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)|International Socialists]], the group in which Cliff had a leading role, and the organisational forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

"Of all the many lessons I learnt in those three years in Glasgow," he wrote later, "the one which most affected my life was a passing remark by Rosa Luxemburg. She predicted that, however strong people's socialist commitment, as soon as they are involved even to the slightest degree in managing the system on behalf of capitalists, they will be lost to the socialist cause."

Foot covered the [[1962 West Lothian by-election]] as a political reporter for the ''Daily Record''. He asked of the Labour candidate, [[Tam Dalyell]]: "How on earth is it that the West Lothian Constituency Labour Party with six coal-mines in the constituency can choose somebody from Eton and King's College, Cambridge, as their candidate?" H. B. Boyne,<!-- Later knighted as Sir Harry Boyne, he is thus worth identifying. --> a political correspondent for the ''Daily Telegraph'', reminded Foot of his own background. The incident did not stop the two men becoming friends.<ref>Tam Dalyell, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104181244/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-foot-6165225.html "Obituary: Paul Foot"], ''The Independent'', 20 July 2004.</ref>

==Journalism and public career (1964–1978)==
In 1964, he returned to London and began to work for ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)#The Sun before Rupert Murdoch|The Sun]]'', as the trade union newspaper, the  ''[[Daily Herald (UK newspaper)|Daily Herald]]'', had become, in a department called Probe. The intention was to investigate and publish stories behind the news but the Probe team resigned after six months. "The man in charge turned out to be a former ''Daily Express'' City editor."<ref>Paul Foot, ''Words as Weapons: Selected Writing, 1980–1990'', London: Verso, 1990, p. xi.</ref>

Foot left to work, part-time, on the Mandrake column on ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]''. He had contributed articles to ''[[Private Eye (magazine)|Private Eye]]'' since 1964 but decided, in February 1967, to take a cut in salary and join the staff of the magazine on a full-time basis, working with its editor, [[Richard Ingrams]] and [[Peter Cook]], by now in possession of a controlling interest in the magazine.<ref>Harry Thompson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RMd6JHis3REC&pg=PT116&lpg=PT116 ''Biography Of Peter Cook''], London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997, p. 116.</ref> When asked about the decision later, Foot would say he could not resist the prospect of two whole pages with complete freedom to write whatever he liked. "Writing for ''Private Eye'' is the only journalism I have ever been engaged in which is pure enjoyment. It is free publishing of the most exhilarating kind."<ref>Foot, ''Words as Weapons'', 1990, p. xii.</ref>

Foot got on very well with Cook, only realising after the latter's death in 1995 how much they had in common, "We both were born in the same week, into the same sort of family. His father, like mine, was a colonial servant rushing round the world hauling down the imperial flag. Both fathers shipped their eldest sons back to public school education in England. We both spent our school holidays with popular aunts and uncles in the West Country."<ref name="observer_cohen" />

Foot's first stint at ''Private Eye'' lasted until 1972 when, according to [[Patrick Marnham]], Foot was sacked by Ingrams, who had come to the conclusion that Foot's copy was being unduly influenced by his contacts in the International Socialists.<ref>Patrick Marnham, [http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/21730/a-great-campaign-socialist/ "A great 'campaign' socialist"], ''[[The Spectator]]'', 17 December 2005.</ref> Ingrams has denied this, writing, "It was said at the time that he and I had fallen out over political issues. In fact, we very seldom disagreed about such things, the only tension arising from Paul's belief that whenever there was a strike he had to support the union regardless of any rights or wrongs."<ref>Richard Ingrams, [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/oct/01/media.media "One in the Eye"], ''The Guardian'', 1 October 2005 (edited extract of ''My Friend Footy'').</ref> In October 1972, he left to join the ''[[Socialist Worker]]'', the weekly newspaper of the International Socialists, "confident that a revolution was coming", as he explained decades later.<ref>Judy Cox, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/2000/05/tribune.htm "Paul Foot: Tribune of the People"], ''[[Socialist Review]]'', No. 241, May 2000, pp. 10–11, as reproduced by the Marxists Internet Archive.</ref> He became editor in 1974.<ref name="ODNB"/> He unsuccessfully fought the [[1977 Birmingham Stechford by-election|Birmingham Stechford by-election]] in 1977 for the SWP, winning 1 per cent of the vote.

==Career (1978–2004)==
Six years later he returned to ''Private Eye'' but was poached in 1979 by the editor of the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'', [[Mike Molloy]], who offered him a weekly investigative page of his own with one condition, that he was not to make propaganda for the SWP.<ref>Richard Ingrams, ''My Friend Footy'' (Private Eye Productions, 2005, {{ISBN|1901784428}}), pp. 82–83.</ref> In 1980, Foot began to look into the case of the "[[Bridgewater Four]]", who had been convicted the previous year of killing [[Stourbridge]] newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater.<ref name="Harcup">Tony Harcup, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5jgIYC4fBqIC&pg=PA103 ''Journalism: Principles and Practice''], London: Sage, 2009, p. 103.</ref> He repeatedly returned to this case, to the occasional consternation of his editor but believed this practice would lead to new witnesses coming forward.<ref name="Harcup"/> Foot and his colleagues looked through many thousands of pages of evidence and statements. When his book ''Murder at the Farm: Who killed Carl Bridgewater?'' was published in 1986, [[Stephen Sedley]]<!-- Not knighted until 1992. --> wrote in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' that Foot had not managed to "answer his own question" but did succeed in demonstrating "that if a jury had known what is now known about the case, it would not have inculpated" the defendants.<ref>Stephen Sedley, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v08/n17/stephen-sedley/who-didnt-kill-carl-bridgewater "Who didn’t kill Carl Bridgewater?"], ''London Review of Books'', 8:17, 9 October 1986, pp. 15–16 (subscription only).</ref> After nearly 20 years in prison, their convictions were overturned at the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] in February 1997 and the three surviving men (one had died in prison) were released.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">David Graves, "Bridgewater Four convictions quashed", ''Daily Telegraph'' 31 July 1997. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20021019064235/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1997%2F07%2F31%2Fnbri31.html Archived] web.archive.com).</ref>

Foot stayed at the ''Daily Mirror'' for 14 years, managing to survive at the paper during the years [[Robert Maxwell]] was in control from 1984. Foot wrote in 2000: "Maxwell demeaned everyone who worked for him, myself included, but I was able by sheltering behind the editor to protect myself from his more monstrous excesses."<ref>Paul Foot, ''Articles of Resistance'', introduction, [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2000/no4_goodman2 cited in Geoffrey Goodman "Foot – at the door"], ''British Journalism Review'', 11:4, 2000, pp. 70–71 {{web.archive|url=https://archive.today/20130906221044/http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2000/no4_goodman2 |date=6 September 2013 }}.</ref> He finally fell out with the new ''Mirror'' editor, [[David Banks (journalist)|David Banks]], in March 1993, nearly 17 months after Maxwell's death. Banks, he claimed, had accused him of being "mad" and a contemporaneous boardroom coup had introduced, according to Foot, a "systematic campaign of union-busting" at the company.<ref name="Herald93">[http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/paul-foot-resigns-from-mirror-1.766126 "Paul Foot resigns from Mirror"], ''The Herald'' (Glasgow), 31 March 1993.</ref> He left the ''Mirror'' in 1993 when the paper refused to print articles critical of its new management and placed Foot on sick leave. "This is [[Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union|Stalinist psychiatry]]," he said at the time. "If you don't agree with us you must be mad."<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news|title=Obituaries {{!}} Paul Foot|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1467378/Paul-Foot.html|access-date=6 February 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=20 July 2004}}</ref> Banks also revealed Foot's salary as £55,000 at the time of the row over the unpublished column, although Foot himself said that it was actually a few thousand less.<ref name="Herald93"/>

Foot rejoined ''Private Eye'', now with [[Ian Hislop]] as the magazine's editor, and began his regular column for ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref> Ingrams, ''My Friend Footy'' (2005), pp. 87–88.</ref> From 2001, he was a Socialist Alliance candidate for several offices. In the [[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]] mayoral election in 2002 he came third, beating the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] candidate. Foot also stood in the London region for the [[Respect – The Unity Coalition|Respect]] coalition in the [[2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|2004 European elections]].

Foot's last book, ''The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined'', was published posthumously in 2005. His friend and ''Private Eye'' colleague [[Francis Wheen]], in his ''Guardian'' review, concluded: "Passionate, energetic and invincibly cheerful: the qualities of his final book are also a monument to the man himself."<ref>Francis Wheen, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/26/highereducation.politicalbooks "Up with the swinish multitude"], ''The Guardian'', 26 February 2005.</ref>

==Writing==
Foot wrote ''[[Red Shelley]]'' (1981), a book that exalted the radical politics of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Percy Shelley]]'s poetry.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Greg Ellermann|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/771124|title= Red Shelley, Once Again|journal=Keats-Shelley Journal|issn=2328-112X|publisher=Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc. |volume=68 |year=2019|pages=104–05}}</ref> Foot was a bibliophile, following in the steps of his grandfather Isaac and uncle Michael, and was also the author of a publication about the radical union leader [[A. J. Cook (trade unionist)|A. J. Cook]].

==Awards and campaign journalism==
Paul Foot was named journalist of the year in the ''[[What The Papers Say]]'' Awards in 1972 and 1989 and campaigning journalist of the year in the 1980 [[British Press Awards]]; he won the ''[[Orwell Prize|George Orwell Prize for Journalism]]'' in 1995 with Tim Laxton, won the journalist of the decade prize in the ''What The Papers Say'' Awards in 2000, and the [[James Cameron (journalist)|James Cameron]] special posthumous Award in 2004.

His best known work was in the form of campaign journalism, including his exposure of corrupt architect [[John Poulson]] and, most notably, his prominent role in the campaigns to overturn the convictions of the [[Birmingham Six]], which eventually succeeded in 1991. Foot also said that a former British intelligence officer, [[Colin Wallace]], had been framed for manslaughter with a view to suppressing Wallace's allegations of collusion between British forces and Loyalist paramilitaries in [[Northern Ireland]] during the 1970s.<ref>See Paul Foot, ''Who Framed Colin Wallace'', Pan, 1990, {{ISBN|0-330-31446-7}}, and, also by Paul Foot, [https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,802698,00.html The final vindication], ''The Guardian'', 2 October 2002, and "Inside story: MI5 mischief", ''The Guardian'', 22 July 1996.</ref>

Foot took a particular interest in the conviction of [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]] for the [[Lockerbie bombing]], firmly believing Megrahi to have been a victim of a [[miscarriage of justice]] at the [[Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial]].<ref>Paul Foot, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/31/lockerbie.libya "Lockerbie's dirty secret"], ''The Guardian'', 31 March 2004.</ref>

He also worked, though without success, to gain a posthumous [[pardon]] for [[James Hanratty]], who was [[hanged]] in 1962 for the [[A6 murder]]. It was a position he maintained even after [[DNA evidence]] in 1999 confirmed Hanratty's guilt.<ref>Paul Foot, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/13/ukcrime.comment "Hanratty's appeal is over, but justice is yet to be done"], ''The Guardian'', 13 May 2002.</ref>

==Personal life==
Paul Foot was married twice, to Monica (née Beckinsale, 1962–70) and Rose (Roseanne, née Harvey, 1971–93) and had a long-term relationship with Clare Fermont.<ref name="Telegraph"/> He had two sons by his first wife, one son by his second, and a daughter by his relationship with Fermont: [[John Foot (academic)|John Foot]] is an academic and writer specialising in Italy, Matt Foot is a solicitor,<ref name="Hattenstone">Simon Hattenstone, [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/04/fighting-for-legal-aid-matt-foot "Fighting for legal aid is my family tradition"], ''The Guardian'', 4 January 2014.</ref> and Tom Foot is a journalist.<ref name="Hattenstone"/> With Fermont, Foot had a daughter, Kate.<ref>Patrick Sawer, [https://www.standard.co.uk/news/paul-foot-dies-at-66-6960575.html "Paul Foot Dies at 66"], ''Evening Standard'', 19 July 2004.</ref>

Foot was a great admirer of West Indian cricket (he used to say that [[George Headley]] had taught him to bat) and a faithful follower of [[Plymouth Argyle F.C.|Plymouth Argyle Football Club]]. He was also a batsman and golfer.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}

==Death and memorials==
[[File:Highgate Cemetery - East - Paul Foot 01.jpg|thumb|Foot's gravestone in [[Highgate Cemetery]]. The epitaph is from ''[[The Masque of Anarchy]]'' by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]].]]
Paul Foot died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] at the age of 66.<ref name="Telegraph"/> A tribute issue of the ''[[Socialist Review]]'', on whose editorial board Foot sat for 19 years, collected together many of his articles, while issue 1116 of ''[[Private Eye (magazine)|Private Eye]]'' included a tribute to Foot from the many people with whom he had worked. Three months after his death, on 10 October 2004, there was a full house at the [[Hackney Empire]] in London for an evening's celebration of his life. The following year, ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''Private Eye'' jointly set up the [[Paul Foot Award]] for investigative or campaigning journalism, with an annual £10,000 prize fund.

Foot is buried in [[Highgate Cemetery]], London, near [[Karl Marx]]'s tomb,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://highgatecemetery.org/visit/cemetery/east|title=Highgate Cemetery, East Cemetery|access-date=19 August 2016}}</ref> with the grave of [[Chris Harman]], another long-time SWP member, adjacent to Foot's.

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==Publications==
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1963/unemp/text.html ''Unemployment – the Socialist Answer''] (1963), Glasgow: The Labour Worker. 
*''Immigration and Race in British Politics'' (1965), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
*''The Politics of Harold Wilson'' (1968), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
*''The Rise of Enoch Powell: An Examination of Enoch Powell’s Attitude to Immigration and Race'' (1969), London: Cornmarket Press, {{ISBN|0-7191-9017-7}}.
*''Who Killed Hanratty?'' (1971), London: Cape, {{ISBN|0-224-00546-4}}.
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1971/post/text.html ''The Postal Workers and the Tory offensive''] (1971), London: International Socialists.
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1973/xx/racism.html ''Workers Against Racism''] (1973), England: International Socialists.
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1976/stop/index.htm ''Stop the Cuts''] (1976), London: Rank and File Organising Committee.
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1977/wysbas/index.htm ''Why You Should Be a Socialist: The Case For the New Socialist Workers Party''] (1977), London: Socialist Workers Party, {{ISBN|0-905998-01-4}}.
*''Red Shelley'' (1981), London: Sidgwick and Jackson, {{ISBN|0-283-98679-4}}.
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1981/06/1381.html ''This Bright Day of Summer: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381''] (1981), London: Socialists Unlimited, {{ISBN|0-905998-22-7}}.
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1982/3letters/index.htm ''Three Letters to a Bennite''] (1982), London: Socialist Workers Party, {{ISBN|0-905998-29-4}}.
*''The Helen Smith Story'' (1983), Glasgow: Fontana, {{ISBN|0-00-636536-1}} (with Ron Smith).
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1986/01/ajcook.htm ''{{'}}An Agitator of the Worst Type': A Portrait of Miners' Leader A.J. Cook''] (1986), London: Socialist Workers Party, {{ISBN|0-905998-51-0}}.
*''Murder at the Farm: Who Killed Carl Bridgewater?'' (1986), London: Sidgwick & Jackson, {{ISBN|0-283-99165-8}}.
*''Ireland: Why Britain Must Get Out'' (1989), London: Chatto & Windus, {{ISBN|0-7011-3548-4}}.
*''Who Framed Colin Wallace?'' (1989), London: Macmillan, {{ISBN|0-333-47008-7}}.<ref name="bufvc/0004900412007">{{cite web |title=Merlyn Rees on MI5 dirty tricks campaign|date=10 May 1989 |url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0004900412007 |website=bufvc.ac.uk |publisher=[[British Universities Film & Video Council]]}}</ref>
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1990/case/index.htm ''The Case for Socialism: What the Socialist Workers Party Stands For''] (1990), London: Bookmarks, {{ISBN|0-905998-74-X}}.
*''Words as Weapons: Selected Writing 1980–1990'' (1990), London: Verso, {{ISBN|0-86091-310-4}}/0860915271.
* {{Cite journal | title = David Widgery (obituary) | journal = [[New Left Review]] | volume = I | issue = 196 | publisher = New Left Review | date = November–December 1992 | url = http://newleftreview.org/I/196/paul-foot-david-widgery }}
* {{Cite journal| title = Inspiring Memory | journal = [[Socialist Worker]] | pages = 49–50 | date = 12 December 1992 | url = https://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1992/12/widgery.html }} (Obituary of [[David Widgery]].)
*''Articles of Resistance'' (2000), London: Bookmarks, {{ISBN|1-898876-64-9}}.
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/2001/xx/votesoc.html''Why You Should Vote Socialist''] (2001), London: Bookmarks. {{ISBN|1 898876 77 0}}.
*''Lockerbie: The Flight from Justice'' (2001), London: Private Eye Special Issue.
*''The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined'' (2005), London: Viking, {{ISBN|0-670-91536-X}}.
*''Orwell & 1984: A Talk by Paul Foot'' (2021), London: Redwords, {{ISBN|9781912926503}}
*''Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution: Two Talks by Paul Foot'' (2021), London: Redwords, {{ISBN|9781914143311}}.
* [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/listings.html The British Library Catalogue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203044234/http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/listings.html |date=3 February 2006 }}

==See also==
*[[Alternative theories of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title=My Friend Footy | year=2005 | isbn=1-901784-42-8 | last=Ingrams | first=Richard | publisher=[[Private Eye (magazine)|Private Eye Productions]] | author-link=Richard Ingrams}}
* {{cite book | title=Paul Foot: A Life in Politics | year=2024 | isbn= 9781804291900 | last=Renn | first=Margaret | publisher=[[Verso Books]]}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
{{Commons category|Paul Foot}}
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/index.htm Paul Foot Internet Archive] at Marxists.org
*[https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/lockerbie Foot's investigative reporting on the Lockerbie Bombing, published in Private Eye]

'''Obituaries'''
* Chris Harman, [https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/954/Paul+Foot+1937-2004 "Paul Foot 1937-2004"], ''Socialist Worker'', Issue 1911, 24 July 2004.
* Michael White and Sam Jones[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jul/19/politics.media "Paul Foot, radical columnist and campaigner, dies at 66"], ''The Guardian'', 19 July 2004.
* Tam Dalyell, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-foot-550127.html "Paul Foot: Investigative journalist and principled believer in socialism"] (obituary), ''The Independent'', 20 July 2004.
** James Burleigh, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/paul-foot-campaigning-journalist-and-socialist-to-the-end-dies-aged-66-553673.html "Paul Foot, campaigning journalist and socialist to the end, dies aged 66"] (news article on his death), ''The Independent'', 19 July 2004.
* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3905493.stm "Veteran journalist Paul Foot dies"], BBC News, 19 July 2004.
* [http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8997 ''Socialist Review'' obituary]
* Extracts from his final work ''The Vote'', [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/feb/21/politicalbooks.bookextracts "Last word on the revolution"] and [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/feb/22/politicalbooks.bookextracts "Sisters at War"], in ''The Guardian'', 21 February 2005.

'''Audio'''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050907130324/http://mp3.lpi.org.uk/ MP3 Talks on Shelley and the Peasants Revolt by Foot]
* Paul Foot on [[Ramsay MacDonald]], [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20060824070344/http://mp3.lpi.org.uk/resistancemp3/ramsey-macdonald-paul-foot.mp3 Part 1], [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20060824070423/http://mp3.lpi.org.uk/resistancemp3/ramsey-macdonald-paul-foot2.mp3 Part 2]
*[http://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul_foot.php Paul Foot Award]

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