LabourStart goes from strength to strength
This is nice – on a website of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Comet, rotten apples and capitalism
This article appeared in Solidarity today. The announcement that another high street retailer, Comet, had bit the dust was hardly unexpected. We’re in the midst of a recession, competition is fierce, the company had long…
Workers rights in North Korea
This article appears in the latest issue of International Union Rights, the magazine of the London-based International Centre for Trade Union Rights. The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea is one of the most difficult places…
Why I hate Twitter
Once again, my Twitter account (erictlee) and LabourStart’s (labourstart) have been hacked, and spam direct messages sent to followers. Twitter’s advice when this sort of thing happens is to change your password, which I’ve done,…
Militant gegen den Arbeitskampf
The following article appears in Jungle World this week. Um Sparmaßnahmen und Privatisierungen durchzusetzen, greifen immer mehr als demokratisch geltende Staaten zu Gewalt gegen Gewerkschaften. Während sich die globale ökonomische Krise verschlimmert, wenden nationale Regierungen…
Why American unions support Obama – and why they’re right to do so
This article appears in the latest edition of Solidarity. Please post any comments you may have to the discussion there. Every four years, an odd little debate occurs on the Left. Here is what happens:…
Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution: The Case of Kamal Abbas
An edited version of this article appears in In These Times. More than twenty years before the fall of the Mubarak regime, Egyptian workers were in revolt. One of the young rebels, Kamal Abbas, a…
Munich and the Left, 1972: The American SWP’s turn to anti-Semitism
This article also appears in Solidarity – please add any comments there. This may be news to some, but what is today commonplace was once quite rare. I’m referring to anti-Semitism on the far Left…
Skrupellos gut
This article appeared in Jungle World. Britischen Kampffliegern des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist in London ein Denkmal gewidmet worden. Trotz des Erfolgs ist ihr Einsatz gegen Nazideutschland umstritten. Am 28. Juni weihte Königin Elisabeth II. ein Denkmal…
Back to that first International?
This article was published in Solidarity. A century and a half ago, workers’ leaders from a number of European countries met in St. Martin’s Hall in London under a banner proclaiming “All men are brothers.”…