The following are my notes for the debate on Activism vs Slacktivism held in Oxford on 21 March 2011. I want to talk about three things. First, about the question itself, about whether we should…

Published today – well worth reading.  (Click here.)

Amnesty International’s UK Section has just announced the results of the elections to its Board.  I was not elected. Of the nearly 250,000 Amnesty supporters who were eligible to vote, only 8,055 bothered to do….

The following is the response I received from Amnesty International’s UK section following the submission of my emergency resolution to the annual general meeting. Dear Eric Thank you for submitting your resolution on Gita Saghal….

I have created a new website to host all the information about my campaign for a seat on the Board of Amnesty International’s UK section. You can visit it here and from tomorrow (25.2.10) it…

Look carefully at the image to the left. This is not an iPhone. It is an iPod touch with something that looks just like a thumbtack stuck into the bottom of it. This thing is…

I will be speaking tonight at this event.

Who is “the godfather of the online global labor movement”? Click here to find out.

Bill Kristol thinks so. Gosh, you read an article like that and it makes you want to vote for Obama. Bill’s Dad — himself a graduate of the Trotskyist Left of the 1930s — should…

In three weeks, the international trade union movement is sponsoring a world wide day of action in support of the workers of Iran — and in particular jailed trade union activists such as Mansour Osanloo…