Sanders, Corbyn and Anti-Semitism
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. Click here to download as a PDF. Bernie Sanders has a proud record both of supporting Israel and of being critical of its government. He summed…
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Sanders, Debs and the Lessons of 1920
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. Earlier this year, a photograph made the rounds on the Internet. It showed Bernie Sanders meeting a young supporter in Iowa. Bernie is smiling and pointing…
Impeachment? What impeachment?
This article appears in this week’s issue of Solidarity. Something strange is going on with the Democratic presidential candidates and the impeachment of Donald Trump. All the candidates support Trump’s impeachment. But none of them…
Sanders and Warren: What’s the difference?
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. American politics has made a sharp turn to the left in recent years – a turn that few anticipated, but that underpins much of what is…
Bernie Sanders, the Jewish socialist who has won the heart of America’s Muslims
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. In recent months, Bernie Sanders has become an enormously popular politician among Muslim Americans. He was one of only two Democratic presidential candidates to address the…
Can Sanders win?
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity (30 October 2019). Click here to see the whole issue (PDF). According to most polls, Americans have had enough of Donald Trump. A majority wants him impeached. And…
Bernie Sanders: The road to Iowa
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity (23 October 2019). Click here to see the whole issue (PDF). Bernie Sanders has 100 days to change American politics forever. In a little more than…
Menshevik Georgia: Online debate with Workers Liberty
Last week, the British left newspaper Solidarity published this review of my book. Today, they published my rebuttal: Paul Vernadsky in his review of my book, The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918-21, is right to…
Why Sanders and his supporters are now backing Clinton
Over the course of the last year, millions of Americans voted for Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist candidate who offered a program of radical change. According to public opinion polls, nearly all of them are…
Bernie Sanders: The primary is over, and now the real work begins
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign was the largest mobilisation of the American Left in history. He won more than twenty states and over ten million votes. His vote total was more than triple that achieved by…