At Karl Marx’s grave
Last weekend, as part of our wedding celebration, we invited guests from all over the world to come to Highgate Cemetery and to visit the grave of Karl Marx. (Doesn’t everyone do this?). Here is…
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50 years later …
This week marks the 50th anniversary of my first visit to Israel. It was July 1973 and I was one of a group of six members of the Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL) sent to…
To understand Putin, read Karl Marx
Seventy years ago at the height of the Cold War a book was published in the US entitled The Russian Menace to Europe. It made the case that “the major objective of Russian foreign policy…
I am running for a seat on the Executive Committee of Democrats Abroad UK
This is my candidate statement: When I launched the Bernie Sanders campaign in the U.K. in July 2015 – at the Independence Day picnic of Democrats Abroad in Portman Square – I had no idea…
100 years on, the Georgian experiment remains relevant
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in February 1921. This is significant today, and not only for Georgians and Russians. Back in 1921, Georgia was ruled by the Social…
For a June 9th Movement
I think it is a safe bet to assume that we are going to wake up on morning of June 9, 2017 to a Tory government with an increased parliamentary majority, and with Labour facing…
Ken Livingstone in Tel Aviv
In November 1986, Ken Livingstone visited Israel as the guest of Mapam (the United Workers’ Party). He toured the country, appeared on national television, met Knesset members, visited a kibbutz and spoke with Mapam activists…
After just one primary, Bernie Sanders is the most successful socialist politician in the US in 80 years
As someone who enjoys political history and playing around with numbers, here are the vote totals for democratic socialist candidates for US president since 1900, when Eugene Debs first ran. In 1924, the Socialists did…
Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first socialist president?
Bernie Sanders is not the first socialist to run for President of the United States. He is not even the first socialist to do so with mass support.
Dr Arieh Yaari, 1918-2005
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Dr Arieh Yaari — socialist, Zionist and fighter for peace. I first met Arieh in January 1981 when I arrived at Kibbutz Ein Dor as a…