Turkish trade unionists on trial
I was in Istanbul for three days last week to attend the opening of the trial of Turkish trade union leaders. My articles on what I saw have begun appearing in a number of places:…
South Korea: rail workers, repression and resistance
My first article for openDemocracy.net – click here to read and feel free to post comments there. The mainstream media struggle to understand Korea. Throughout December, global news coverage focussed on the latest purge in…
North Korea’s Great Terror
The downfall of Chang Song-thaek, once considered the second most powerful person in North Korea, is a lesson in history for a new generation – and not only in Korea. The parallels to Soviet history…
ახალბედა პროფკავშირული მოძრაობა საქართველოში
My first article to appear in Georgian — on the website of the Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC). ავტორი: ერიკ ლი ნოემბერში, ორი დღის მანძილზე, საქართველოს რკინიგზაში დრამა გათამაშდა, რამაც მშრომელთა მოძრაობა საუკეთესო მხრიდან წარმოგვიდგინა.ეს…
Проблема сталинизма и движение трудящихся сегодня
The Russian language version of my presentation on Stalinism and the Labour Movement to a conference in Kiev in November. Эрик Ли (главный редактор веб-сайта международного профсоюзного движения LabourStart, Лондон) В своем выступлении я не…
Per SMS zum Arbeitskampf
Der israelische Gewerkschaftsbund Histadrut feiert große Erfolge, während Gewerkschaften anderswo gegen sinkende Mitgliederzahlen kämpfen. Anfang November kündigte Ofer Eini nach acht Jahren seinen Abschied von der Spitze des israelischen Gewerkschaftsdachverbands Histadrut an. Das Ende der…
Israel’s Histadrut wins big victories as unions elsewhere struggle to grow
This article appears in German in Jungle World with the headline “Per SMS zum Arbeitskampf” and also on Talking Union, the blog of the Democratic Socialists of America Labor Network. In early November, Ofer Eini…
In Georgia, a newly-emboldened labour movement emerges
This article appeared today in Equal Times, which is the online magazine supported by the 175 million-member International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). It also appeared on the website of the Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC)….
Why the left should have nothing to do with Russia Today
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. Thom Hartmann is a prominent left-wing radio broadcaster from the USA. I first came across him when he interviewed me at a conference in Washington and…
My new best friend: todo.txt
As some of you will be aware, I’m an avid user of to-do lists. Long before such lists were commonplace on the net, I used something we techies call “pen and paper” to keep my…