This article appeared this week in Jungle World. Viele internationale NGOs konzentrieren sich in ihren Kampagnen als Reaktion auf den Fabrikeinsturz in Bangladesh auf die Konsumenten. Wichtiger ist jedoch die Stärkung der lokalen Gewerkschaften. Der…
I wonder if that’s a word. It should be. I’ve been de-Googling my life today. It’s hard to remember, but there was a time when Google was cool. Back in the 1990s, I remember reading…
That’s the title of a two-page article — an interview with me — that appears in the current issue of the magazine for members of the German Esperanto-Federation and the Austrian Esperanto-Federation. The title means “to…
This article appears in Solidarity. It is a reply to a letter by Martin Thomas (“How to marginalise Stalin“), who was replying to my original article three weeks ago. Martin Thomas is opposed to kicking the…
This article appears in Our Times, Canada’s independent labour magazine. The deaths of more than 1,000 workers in the Rana Plaza building collapse in April provoked a flurry of activity among campaigning organizations around the…
My Stalin in Clerkenwell Green article has been published in Russian by the Praxis Centre in Moscow. Here’s the full text (PDF). Э. Ли (гл. редактор профсоюзного портала LaborStart) Было чудесное майское утро одного из…
This article appears on Stronger Unions, the blog of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK. In the labour movement we’re often fond of our history. We preserve certain traditions, we celebrate some holidays,…
This article appears in Solidarity. Feel free to add your comments below. It was a beautiful May morning, one of the first warm and sunny days we’ve had all year. In Clerkenwell Green, hundreds of…
The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh has horrified people all over the world. Everyone wants to see something done about us, to ensure that it never happens again. But not everyone agrees on…
I like to keep a record of the books I’ve read, and like millions of others, have found online communities to be a good way of doing this. In recent years, I’ve used two of…