This article appeared in Solidarity today. The announcement that another high street retailer, Comet, had bit the dust was hardly unexpected. We’re in the midst of a recession, competition is fierce, the company had long…

This article appears in the latest edition of Solidarity. Please post any comments you may have to the discussion there. Every four years, an odd little debate occurs on the Left. Here is what happens:…

This article also appears in Solidarity – please add any comments there. This may be news to some, but what is today commonplace was once quite rare. I’m referring to anti-Semitism on the far Left…

This article was published in Solidarity. A century and a half ago, workers’ leaders from a number of European countries met in St. Martin’s Hall in London under a banner proclaiming “All men are brothers.”…

This article appears in Solidarity this week. As PCS convenes this week in Brighton for their annual conference, delegates will be be expected to vote on a wide range of issues, including some international ones….

This article appears in this week’s issue of Solidarity. The week leading up to May Day is commemorated each year around the world as “North Korea Freedom Week”, though you’d hardly know that if you…

This article appeared in Solidarity. Mass murderers, and especially those who execute children at point-blank range, are not normally objects of one’s sympathy. It is possible, I imagine, for Nazis to “understand” the motives of…

This March marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bayard Rustin, the American civil rights leader who passed away in 1987.  Rustin is remembered as the organiser of the great 1963 March on Washington…

This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. The opening scene of Michel Hazanavicius’ new film, “The Artist”, is a movie within a movie. It’s the final moments of a fictional 1927 silent film….