Egypt: Repression, resistance and the birth of something new
I have seen the future — and it is 1980. I visited Egypt last week as the guest of the Center for Trade Union Rights and Workers’ Services which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. They…
I have seen the future — and it is 1980. I visited Egypt last week as the guest of the Center for Trade Union Rights and Workers’ Services which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. They…
I’m submitting an emergency resolution to the Amnesty International UK Section AGM next month.
I have created a new website to host all the information about my campaign for a seat on the Board of Amnesty International’s UK section. You can visit it here and from tomorrow (25.2.10) it…
I have decided to run for a seat on the Board of Amnesty International UK. But I need at least 10 paid-up members of Amnesty to support my nomination in order to get on the…
In recent weeks I’ve had the opportunity to listen to leaders of trade unions and the Jewish community in Britain discuss developments that concern them. The first has been reaction to the decision taken by…
The possibility of using Twitter as a campaigning tool was recently tested by LabourStart. We were inspired by the example of American Rights at Work (ARAW), a union-supported campaigning organisation, that has recently taken on…
This article appears today on the Jewish Chronicle website and will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. It is also being reprinted on the website of Pluto Press. In recent months, Amnesty International in the UK…
In late October, LabourStart conducted the first-ever global study of the use of Twitter by trade unionists. Nearly 1,600 trade unionists participated, with the largest single group (360) coming from the U.K. While all those…
I just spotted this and cannot believe that journalists cannot write even a couple of paragraphs about Trotsky within making at least one error — significant political errors — in each sentence. Here are two…
This article first appeared in Labour Research magazine. In the course of the last decade, two colleagues of mine — both senior trade unionists — have suffered catastrophic losses of data. One lost his address…