JFK fifty years on: What Marxists need to remember
This article was published in Solidarity. In about a month, the world will remember the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy fifty years ago – on 22 November 1963. It’s easy to predict how…
This article was published in Solidarity. In about a month, the world will remember the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy fifty years ago – on 22 November 1963. It’s easy to predict how…
Huber Ballesteros is a Colombian trade union leader jailed for leading strikes and protests – show your support by sending a message today to the Colombian government demanding his release – click here. The Korean…
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This article appeared in Jungle World. Ed Miliband hatte eine gute Woche. Obwohl die britische Labour Party in Umfragen seit Langem führt und es so aussieht, als könnte sie die Konservativen bei den Wahlen 2015…
This article appears in Solidarity – please post any comments there. This summer marks the hundredth anniversary of the drafting of a letter which revealed one of history’s greatest secrets. Or maybe not. The…
I recently attended the London launch of Fairphone — “a seriously cool smartphone that puts social values first”. Fairphone is a Dutch initiative to create an alternative to the decidely “unfair” phones that are being…
Lots of people complain that they get tons of spam, but on closer examination, you learn that what they’re getting are messages from mailing lists they’ve signed up to, or from social networks they’ve joined,…
If like me you grew up typing on proper keyboards, you may have gotten rather fast at it. Writing things down with pen and ink can seem unimaginably slow. But newer technologies can also seem…
There’s an artificial difference, I think, between calendars and to-do lists. Each one can replace the other — regardless of whether you’re using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop PC, or even pen and paper. This…
There are people who spend lots of time thinking about ways to be more productive. In fact, sometimes they spend so much time on this that they actually get nothing done at all. This is…