Bernie Sanders – Dangerous Trotskyist?
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. In the hunt for dirt on Bernie Sanders, hostile journalists have come up with very little. He had his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. He wrote…
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Review: The Reckoning: How the Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land, by Patrick Bishop
This is the story of the killing of Avraham “Yair” Stern, the leader of the Jewish underground group in Palestine that bore his name, by a British police officer in Tel Aviv in 1942. Patrick…
Why the Georgian Experiment matters to Russia today
This is the speech I gave in Moscow on 16 January 2020 to mark the publication of The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 in Russian. First of all, I would like to thank the Global…
Review: Downsizing, by Tom Watson
Tom Watson was, until very recently, the deputy leader of the British Labour Party. A few years ago, he was diagnosed as suffering from Type 2 Diabetes. At the time, he was 50 years old…
The “Bernie Blackout” is now over
This article appeared on the website of Workers Liberty. A few weeks ago, the mainstream media narrative about Bernie Sanders ran like this: Sanders appeals to a very limited audience in the Democratic Party and…
Review: Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell
I think I read a negative review of this book somewhere. And for that reason, I delayed buying it. Which is odd because I think I’ve read — and really enjoyed — all his other…
Review: Foe, by Iain Reid
This is a seriously creepy book. It takes place sometime in the near future, though we learn very little about it. The narrator gives little away, and often seems to understand even less than we…
Review: It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past, by David Satter
First of all, that’s a great title for a book. And this is a very good book. Veteran journalist David Satter explores the difficult terrain of historical memory in post-Communist Russia. He explores issues like…
Sanders and Soleimani
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. The drone attack ordered by US President Donald Trump has shaken up the entire Middle East, raising fears of a regional conflict – or worse, a…
Review: A Forgotten Hero: Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis, by Shelley Emling
Count Folke Bernadotte is largely forgotten today, but his murder in Jerusalem in 1948 made headlines around the world. The first UN peace mediator in the Middle East, he was targeted by members of the…