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50 years later …

This week marks the 50th anniversary of my first visit to Israel. It was July 1973 and I was one of a group of six members of the Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL) sent to…

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To understand Putin, read Karl Marx

Seventy years ago at the height of the Cold War a book was published in the US entitled The Russian Menace to Europe.  It made the case that “the major objective of Russian foreign policy…




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…




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Dr Arieh Yaari, 1918-2005

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Dr Arieh Yaari — socialist, Zionist and fighter for peace. I first met Arieh in January 1981 when I arrived at Kibbutz Ein Dor as a…