Two months without a mobile phone
It’s now been two months since I published my blog “Why I’m throwing my mobile phone away“. I thought this might be a good time for an update. Since I wrote the article, I have…
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Unions and smartphones: Time to get it right
In recent weeks, I’ve gotten a few requests for information about a survey LabourStart did a couple of years ago. It’s odd because we’ve not done anything to publicize this. So I asked one of…
Welcoming China’s unions back into the family?
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. At the end of March, the International Labour Organisation’s Bureau for Workers Activities (known as ILO-ACTRAV) and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) signed a…
Should male circumcision be banned? A socialist view
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity and is a response to this article by Camilla Bassi. Camilla Bassi’s “basic socialist demands” regarding male circumcision have no foundation in Marxist tradition, give legitimacy…
Russia, Ukraine and the International Left
“The policy of Russia is changeless … Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy — world domination — is a fixed star.” — Karl Marx, 1867 That…
Why I’m throwing my mobile phone away
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” – Dr Emmett Brown, Back to the Future (1985) I hardly ever use phones. Like many people, I do most of my communication either face to face,…
Facebook now owns WhatsApp – it’s time to look at alternatives
Update: Totally ahead of the curve on this one. WhatsApp had an outage yesterday triggering a massive number of new users for Telegram Messenger. They’re claiming to have 100 new users signing up every second….
Fighting anti-semitism the old fashioned way: I send an actual letter to Facebook
As I reported a couple of days ago, Facebook is hosting a page that promotes the “blood libel” against Jews in breach of its own Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and, probably, British and European law….
Facebook promotes the oldest anti-Jewish libel
I learned this morning that Facebook has a page devoted to “Jewish ritual murder” which I found hard to believe — so I checked and found it’s true. So, as one does, I used Facebook’s…
Turkish trade unionists on trial
I was in Istanbul for three days last week to attend the opening of the trial of Turkish trade union leaders. My articles on what I saw have begun appearing in a number of places:…