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…
The Democratic National Convention opens in just a few minutes; I am sitting in the hall, looking down on the delegates and the stage. People are slowly coming into the hall. This place has the…
For some time now, commentators have been talking about the Republican Party’s tendency to self-destruct. Every time Donald J. Trump said something stupid or outrageous, he won more support. Every time polls showed him as the…
I arrived in Philadelphia last night, just in time to catch Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Though I have to confess that after the first four hours of his speech (or…
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign was the largest mobilisation of the American Left in history. He won more than twenty states and over ten million votes. His vote total was more than triple that achieved by…
Last week the International Trade Union Confederation released its annual Global Rights Index. The Index reviews the state of workers rights in 141 countries. “The Middle East and North Africa,” it reported, “were again the…
It is a great honour to be here today and to receive the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights on behalf of LabourStart. I want to thank the union Industri Energi for awarding…
I have just left the Global Convention of Democrats Abroad here in Berlin where I represented Senator Bernie Sanders. I was not a delegate, or elector, and hold no office in Democrats Abroad. But I…
This article appears today in the Jewish Chronicle. One of the most shocking documents on display at Yad Vashem is a typed list prepared by Adolf Eichmann for the Wannsee conference held in January 1942….
Part of a talk I gave a few weeks ago for the Ethical Trading Initiative in London.