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 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…

This article appeared in Solidarity.  Please feel free to add your comments there. Socialist Worker last week reported on the escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula – but in topsy-turvy world of the fast-decaying…

This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity.  Please post any comments there. Four years ago, the stars of the successful BBC comedy series “Gavin and Stacey” made the mistake of starring in an…

This article appeared today in Solidarity. When George W. Bush proclaimed his “War on Terror” more than a decade ago, there was some concern in the USA and its allies that the war might not…

This article appears today in Solidarity. Recently, I co-authored a book on online campaigning for trade unions and self-published it using a print-on-demand service called CreateSpace. CreateSpace is a subsidiary of Amazon, the giant online…

This article appears today in Solidarity. “The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the workers themselves” – that’s a phrase which will be familiar to most Marxists and originates in the…

This article appears in Solidarity. In the course of just a few days, three news stories came across my desk that highlighted one of the problems we face in the British trade union movement. As…

At first glance, who could oppose the Palestine Solidarity Campaign? The very name implies one of the most noble human aspirations — solidarity with a people. And in particular a people like the Palestinians, whose suffering is…