Following a special double episode of the hit BBC television series “Spooks” in which the bad guys turned out to be the Israeli Mossad (see my previous article) you’d think they would take a break….

Last night I debated Sean Matgamna of the Alliance for Workers Liberty at a central London pub in front of an audience of about 30 people. My notes for the debate follow.

I’d like to invite you to attend a debate taking place next week on the subject of the current crisis in the Middle East.

It would take a book to answer all the questions and criticisms that followed the publication of this article. I’ve decided to attempt short answers to a dozen of these.

No socialist group in Britain is saying what needs to be said today about the crisis in the Middle East. All the groups on the organised Left are busy denouncing Israel for its “aggression” against…

Most of the websites that I look at, the ones that largely share my political perspective, have been strangely silent over the last couple of days regarding recent developments in the Middle East — especially…

(This was submitted as a Letter to the Editor to The Independent, which did not see fit to publish it.) Johann Hari says he knows the real reasons behind Israel’s incursions into Gaza these past…

The death of Iraqi Al-Qaeda boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi led the BBC website to solicit comments from readers. And invited readers to vote on their favourite comments. Normally, you’d expect something along the lines of…

The decisions by major unions in the UK and Canada yesterday to promote peace in the Middle East by encouraging boycotts have come in for a lot of criticism. But I want to understand the…