The Degaev Affair – by Richard Pipes
For some time now I have been a student of the decades long secret war between Russian revolutionaries and the tsarist police. (Attentive readers of this website will be aware that my research culminated a…
Want everyone to be able to read your emails?
That’s what you get when you send an unencrypted email. It’s like sending all your messages by postcard, without an envelope. Of course if you don’t mind governments, employers, corporations, and ISPs reading your emails…
Online organizing: The counter-attack begins
A decade ago, South Korean workers used the Internet to produce live reports (including video) about their general strikes. At the time, they were way ahead of the rest of the world in maximizing the…
No to racist boycotts! Israelis and Palestinians welcome here!
Last night, the second largest union in Britain, Unison, voted to call for “an economic, cultural, academic and sporting boycott” of Israel. This follows similar calls by two other unions — the NUJ and UCU….
Unions – If you want to help the Palestinians, don’t boycott Israel
In the last several weeks, unions in a number of countries have been engaged in a wide-ranging and often acrimonious debate over the subject of boycotting Israel. In Britain, both the National Union of Journalists…
Ubuntu and the Unions
Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve installed a new operating system on my computer. I no longer use Microsoft Windows XP and instead now use Ubuntu Linux. That’s nice, you may be…
Ubuntu now
I realize that my original plan was to try out Ubuntu Linux using the Wubi dual-boot system, making sure that everything worked and then after a full month, switching over. But I lost patience —…
Life after Windows: Day 13
I’ve reached a decision. In another 18 days — on the first day of summer — I will completely shut down Microsoft Windows XP on my computer and move over to using Ubuntu Linux as…
Life’s a Picnik – free photo-editing software you don’t have to download
Two things are happening to software that should be of interest to trade unionists. First, software that used to cost a great deal of money is now often available completely free of charge. Second, that…
“Israel is the cause of all suffering”
“Their suffering is continuing, and that it is unacceptable. Everyday there are Palestinians arrested, imprisoned for no reason. People are killed on a daily basis. The economic suffering is terrible … absolute despair after nearly…