 The first volume dedicated to Gramsci, "Selections from the Prison Notebooks", was published in 1971, and re-published in 2005.The mid-1980s saw the publication of works by writers who brought the insights of cultural studies to bear on more traditional political concerns with ideology, politics and power, a field of research that ultimately led to the range of journals that Lawrence and Wishart now publish.John Newsinger wrote that the Communist vendetta against George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" was maintained as recently as 1984, when Lawrence and Wishart published "Inside the Myth", a collection of essays "bringing together a variety of standpoints hostile to Orwell in an obvious attempt to do as much damage to his reputation as possible."