Solidarity with the Kurds – or NATO-bashing?
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. At the November 1st demonstration in Trafalgar Square in support of besieged Kobane, it struck me that the speakers — and more broadly, the Left —…
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They shall not pass!
This is the speech I gave today in Trafalgar Square at the demonstration in support of Kobane — part of an international day of action. Comrades and friends, brothers and sisters, good afternoon. I have…
Kobane is this generation’s Stalingrad
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,…
The most equal society in the world
Today is Blog Action Day and the subject this year is inequality. Which has led me to think about its opposite, equality. And having lived for many years in what was one of the most…
FireChat: Yet another spurious techno-panacea
Almost every day we hear about some new “revolutionary” technology that is going to make the world a more open, transparent, and better place.
38 Degrees: This is NOT democracy
I have just received an email message from 38 Degrees, an online campaigning organization in the UK that claims to have three million members of which, apparently, I am one. The subject line is “Islamic…
Taking Ukraine’s side – because of, not in spite of, our history
Ukraine to many Jews conjures up bad memories – pogroms, collaboration with Nazis, anti-Semitism spanning centuries. So when Russian President Putin claims that Nazis have come to power in a putsch in Kiev, we take…
TUC silence on Russian aggression is nothing new
In an otherwise excellent piece on the TUC’s passing of an idiotic resolution on Ukraine, Dale Street writes that “for the first time since the Second World War the territory of a European country has…
From ‘pro-peace’ to ‘pro-Palestinian’ – the British TUC switches sides
The decisions taken yesterday by Britain’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) on the subject of Palestine mark the end of an era.
The anti-anti-semitism of fools
This article also appears on Harry’s Place, Howie’s Corner, Solidarity (Workers’ Liberty) and Shiraz Socialist. I have just come back from attending a large demonstration in central London protesting the rise of anti-Semitism in the…