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LabourStart – agi por homaj kaj laboraj rajtoj

That’s the title of a two-page article — an interview with me — that appears in the current issue of the magazine for members of the German Esperanto-Federation and the Austrian Esperanto-Federation.  The title means “to…



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A tip for union web designers

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…


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Max Shachtman and his legacy

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…



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Syria: The dog that didn’t bark

This article appeared in Solidarity on 25 May 2011. As I write these words, news has come in of the failure of Syria’s opposition to hold a general strike. One is reminded of Sherlock Holmes’…