This article appears today in Solidarity. “The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the workers themselves” – that’s a phrase which will be familiar to most Marxists and originates in the…
A month ago, I published on my blog a short article entitled “Is this Netanyahu’s final month in office?” It contained several predictions about the Israeli elections — which is always a colossal mistake, as…
The Israeli elections are just six days away and the consensus in Israel and abroad is that Benjamin Netanyahu will once again be elected prime minister, heading up a coalition of right-wing and ultra-orthodox political…
I’m very pleased to announce today the publication of LabourStart’s first book – Campaigning Online and Winning: How LabourtStart’s ActNOW Campaigns Are Making Unions Stronger. Many labour and left organizations publish books, but nearly all of them…
Like many of you, I’ve been a loyal user of Gmail for many years now. When it first came out, Google’s web-based email service left all the others behind. It was very fast and we…
I am usually completely wrong about predicting election results but there are certain trends in polling for the Israeli elections (which happen in another month) which may be of interest. Taking the long view —…
This is so geeky, if you’re not caught up with the jargon please don’t read any further. I’ve been busy creating a database for a new website. The database has a several tables, and in…
This article appears in Solidarity. In the course of just a few days, three news stories came across my desk that highlighted one of the problems we face in the British trade union movement. As…
At first glance, who could oppose the Palestine Solidarity Campaign? The very name implies one of the most noble human aspirations — solidarity with a people. And in particular a people like the Palestinians, whose suffering is…
In 1975, at a conference in Boston, I met a local socialist activist and when I asked him where he fit in politically, he replied that he was a “1946 Shachtmanite”. I learned that a…