The Left has a long and proud history of anti-militarism.  One cannot help but look back in admiration at the American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs who went to prison after making an anti-war speech…

Last week I interviewed Lizaveta Merliak, who runs Salidarnast, a group campaigning in support of the embattled independent trade union movement in Belarus.   Liza was an activist in the Belarusian unions who was forced to…

At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled “The Russian Menace to Europe”.  The authors were listed as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.  A…

As Karl Marx famously wrote in 1852, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as…

“More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN.” That’s from a BBC report a few days ago.  This horrific…

Last Monday was Donald Trump’s first day in office as President and he raced to issue a series of “executive orders”.  One would imagine that these reflected his highest priorities as well as those of…

The new film about the early years of Bob Dylan’s career, “A Complete Unknown,” is a brilliant, must-see film.  Timothée Chalamet is outstanding as the young Dylan — not only as an actor, but as…

The pro-Moscow ruling party in Georgia, billionaire Bdzina Ivanishvili’s “Georgian Dream,” is growing increasingly desperate in its attempts to hold on to power following the 26 October elections. First, they bungled the attempt to steal…