Last week I was contacted by the Brussels-based European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) about a possible campaign in the Netherlands.  A local leader of the FNV, the national trade union centre, had been sacked after…

Two leaders of the union representing Serbian air traffic controllers were recently sacked as part of a union-busting campaign. Ranko Radovanovic (president) and Igor Hajderpašić (secretary), leaders of the Sindikat kontrole letenja (SKL), were dismissed…

I learned two things this morning that came as a surprise.  The first is that there are 1,700 primary schools in England that do not have a library.  And second, under the law, every single…

Do street protests matter?  Many people in the UK are still stung by how gigantic demonstrations two decades ago could not stop Tony Blair from joining the US-led invasion of Iraq. And today in Israel,…

In the course of Labour’s first year in office, Keir Starmer has been very energetic and effective in one particular area: he’s very good at getting rid of people who fall out of favour for…

For many years, people in the U.K. could comfortably boast that unlike continental European countries, we didn’t have Nazis.  We had a far Right, of course, but even that struggled to win seats in Parliament. …

A little more than a century ago, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya left their two-room apartment at Spiegelgasse 14 in Zurich, never to return. They travelled to Russia through Germany at the…

If elected in November, Zohran Mamdani will be the third democratic socialist mayor of New York City in the last 35 years. His predecessors included David Dinkins, a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC)…

Dan Gallin, the former general secretary of the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) passed away at his home in Geneva at the end of last month at the age of 94.  He was to me,…