1917: Freedom or Tyranny?
Last night I participated in a debate with the Alliance for Workers Liberty in central London on the subject of “1917: Freedom or Tyranny?”. The following is the text of my opening remarks. I want…
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The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918-21 – website now live
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For a June 9th Movement
I think it is a safe bet to assume that we are going to wake up on morning of June 9, 2017 to a Tory government with an increased parliamentary majority, and with Labour facing…
Ken Livingstone in Tel Aviv
In November 1986, Ken Livingstone visited Israel as the guest of Mapam (the United Workers’ Party). He toured the country, appeared on national television, met Knesset members, visited a kibbutz and spoke with Mapam activists…
Another world was possible – for workers: The Georgian Experiment, 1918-1921
Click here to read the Georgian Version The following is the text of a speech I delivered at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia in Tbilisi on Wednesday, 2 November 2016. Thank you to Irakli…
Why Sanders and his supporters are now backing Clinton
Over the course of the last year, millions of Americans voted for Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist candidate who offered a program of radical change. According to public opinion polls, nearly all of them are…
Day 8: From protest to politics
In the mid-1960s, not long after the March on Washington, the organizer of that historic protest, Bayard Rustin, wrote an article. It was called “From protest to politics”. Rustin argued that the civil rights movement…
Day 7: Putin’s Party
A few years after the second world war, a strange book was published in New York City. It was called The Russian Menace to Europe and judging by the title, one would imagine it was one…
Day 6: Don’t vote for Dr Jill Stein
I am addressing this to my friends who have supported Senator Bernie Sanders but are now considering voting for, and working for, Dr Jill Stein, the candidate of the Green Party. First of all, let…
Day 5: Bernie Sanders gives the speech of a lifetime
The first night of the Democratic National Convention began badly. The first speaker was a woman minister and all went very well until she mentioned the name of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And then the chanting…