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…
Railway workers win in Georgia
This article appeared this week in Solidarity. Over the course of two days earlier this month, a drama played on the Georgian railways that showed the labour movement at its best. This has not always…
JFK fifty years on: What Marxists need to remember
This article was published in Solidarity. In about a month, the world will remember the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy fifty years ago – on 22 November 1963. It’s easy to predict how…
Workers rights are human rights – take a stand now!
Huber Ballesteros is a Colombian trade union leader jailed for leading strikes and protests – show your support by sending a message today to the Colombian government demanding his release – click here. The Korean…
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Daddy war sicher kein Nazi
This article appeared in Jungle World. Ed Miliband hatte eine gute Woche. Obwohl die britische Labour Party in Umfragen seit Langem führt und es so aussieht, als könnte sie die Konservativen bei den Wahlen 2015…
Stalin’s Great Secret?
This article appears in Solidarity – please post any comments there. This summer marks the hundredth anniversary of the drafting of a letter which revealed one of history’s greatest secrets. Or maybe not. The…
How fair is Fairphone?
I recently attended the London launch of Fairphone — “a seriously cool smartphone that puts social values first”. Fairphone is a Dutch initiative to create an alternative to the decidely “unfair” phones that are being…
10. Spring cleaning to make our inboxes manageable
Lots of people complain that they get tons of spam, but on closer examination, you learn that what they’re getting are messages from mailing lists they’ve signed up to, or from social networks they’ve joined,…
9. How to increase your typing speed on a smartphone
If like me you grew up typing on proper keyboards, you may have gotten rather fast at it. Writing things down with pen and ink can seem unimaginably slow. But newer technologies can also seem…