This is my candidate statement: When I launched the Bernie Sanders campaign in the U.K. in July 2015 – at the Independence Day picnic of Democrats Abroad in Portman Square – I had no idea…
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This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in February 1921. This is significant today, and not only for Georgians and Russians. Back in 1921, Georgia was ruled by the Social…
I think it is a safe bet to assume that we are going to wake up on morning of June 9, 2017 to a Tory government with an increased parliamentary majority, and with Labour facing…
In November 1986, Ken Livingstone visited Israel as the guest of Mapam (the United Workers’ Party). He toured the country, appeared on national television, met Knesset members, visited a kibbutz and spoke with Mapam activists…
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…
Bernie Sanders is not the first socialist to run for President of the United States. He is not even the first socialist to do so with mass support.
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Dr Arieh Yaari — socialist, Zionist and fighter for peace. I first met Arieh in January 1981 when I arrived at Kibbutz Ein Dor as a…
No one has any time. We all have too much to do. This is true for businessmen; it’s true for students; it’s true for activists like myself. Is your email inbox overflowing? Do you have…
Tomorrow is election day here in Britain, and that headline is unlikely to grace the front page of any of our newspapers on the morning after. But it’s a real headline and it describes what…
By the summer of 1942, the outcome of the second world war was easy to predict. The German U-boat operations in the North Atlantic were proving increasingly successful in sinking Allied ships. In North Africa,…