De-Googling
I wonder if that’s a word. It should be. I’ve been de-Googling my life today. It’s hard to remember, but there was a time when Google was cool. Back in the 1990s, I remember reading…
May 2013
LabourStart – agi por homaj kaj laboraj rajtoj
That’s the title of a two-page article — an interview with me — that appears in the current issue of the magazine for members of the German Esperanto-Federation and the Austrian Esperanto-Federation. The title means “to…
Confronting Stalinism
This article appears in Solidarity. It is a reply to a letter by Martin Thomas (“How to marginalise Stalin“), who was replying to my original article three weeks ago. Martin Thomas is opposed to kicking the…
Bangladesh: Learning the right lessons
This article appears in Our Times, Canada’s independent labour magazine. The deaths of more than 1,000 workers in the Rana Plaza building collapse in April provoked a flurry of activity among campaigning organizations around the…
Сталин в районе Кларкенуэлл-грин
My Stalin in Clerkenwell Green article has been published in Russian by the Praxis Centre in Moscow. Here’s the full text (PDF). Э. Ли (гл. редактор профсоюзного портала LaborStart) Было чудесное майское утро одного из…
Israel’s ports haunted by Ronald Reagan’s ghost
This article appears on Stronger Unions, the blog of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK. In the labour movement we’re often fond of our history. We preserve certain traditions, we celebrate some holidays,…
Stalin in Clerkenwell Green
This article appears in Solidarity. Feel free to add your comments below. It was a beautiful May morning, one of the first warm and sunny days we’ve had all year. In Clerkenwell Green, hundreds of…
Strong unions key to preventing another Rana Plaza
The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh has horrified people all over the world. Everyone wants to see something done about us, to ensure that it never happens again. But not everyone agrees on…