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After just one primary, Bernie Sanders is the most successful socialist politician in the US in 80 years
As someone who enjoys political history and playing around with numbers, here are the vote totals for democratic socialist candidates for US president since 1900, when Eugene Debs first ran. In 1924, the Socialists did…
Why Israel is losing the battle in the world’s trade unions
Text of my presentation at Limmud, University of Warwick, 29 December 2014 My name is Eric Lee and I’m speaking to you tonight on behalf of TULIP – Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine. TULIP…
They shall not pass!
This is the speech I gave today in Trafalgar Square at the demonstration in support of Kobane — part of an international day of action. Comrades and friends, brothers and sisters, good afternoon. I have…
Two months without a mobile phone
It’s now been two months since I published my blog “Why I’m throwing my mobile phone away“. I thought this might be a good time for an update. Since I wrote the article, I have…
Fighting anti-semitism the old fashioned way: I send an actual letter to Facebook
As I reported a couple of days ago, Facebook is hosting a page that promotes the “blood libel” against Jews in breach of its own Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and, probably, British and European law….
Facebook promotes the oldest anti-Jewish libel
I learned this morning that Facebook has a page devoted to “Jewish ritual murder” which I found hard to believe — so I checked and found it’s true. So, as one does, I used Facebook’s…
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…
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…
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…