Last month I sent out a mailing to LabourStart’s 75,000 subscribers asking people to support the struggles of striking oil workers in Kazakhstan and at a steel company in Georgia. As these were both former…

A decade ago, it was not easy to convince some on the Left to begin using net-based tools to communicate and organise. Today, we run the risk of becoming over-reliant on some of those tools,…

What makes some online campaigns popular, while others are not?

If the British National Party were tomorrow to issue a report saying that Israeli Jews were responsible for the “ritual slaughter” of a Christian priest – as part of an effort to ethnically cleanse Palestine…

This article has been published in Solidarity. Bob Dylan recently performed in China and Vietnam for the very first time, prompting critics to denounce him for “selling out” – and not for the first time….

This article appeared in Solidarity 3/201 (20 April 2011). One litmus test of whether one is engaged in reasonable criticism of Israel or simple anti-Semitism is whether you think anyone in the Jewish state is…

The following article appeared in Solidarity on 6 April 2011. Manfred Elfstrom, a PhD student at Cornell University in the United States, has produced an extraordinary resource for the trade union movement. It’s a website…

This article appeared in Solidarity. Later this month I’ve been invited to debate some of the leading online campaigners in Britain on the role of new media in the revolutions taking place in Middle East….

This article appeared in Solidarity. What happened in Egypt over the last few weeks has a clear historic parallel in the events of August 1980 in Poland. In both cases, weakened authoritarian regimes crumbled as…

This article appeared in both the print and online editions of Solidarity. LabourStart has just completed the first ever large-scale, global survey of trade union use of the net. More than 1,300 union members participated…