Like many of you, I’ve been a loyal user of Gmail for many years now.  When it first came out, Google’s web-based email service left all the others behind.  It was very fast and we…

I am usually completely wrong about predicting election results but there are certain trends in polling for the Israeli elections (which happen in another month) which may be of interest.  Taking the long view —…

Once again, my Twitter account (erictlee) and LabourStart’s (labourstart) have been hacked, and spam direct messages sent to followers. Twitter’s advice when this sort of thing happens is to change your password, which I’ve done,…

This article now appears on Harry’s Place where an extensive discussion is taking place. Please feel free to add your comments there. One of the things that struck me when I interviewed Vietnam veterans two…

(A German language version of this article appeared in Jungle World.) Two weeks ago, I found myself standing together with 62 locked out workers in front of a metal factory in Gebze, Turkey, just outside…

The following is the text of my opening address to the Second Annual LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference in Istanbul, Turkey – 18 November 2011. — Good evening everyone and welcome to the second annual LabourStart…

A few weeks ago, the University of Johannesburg took the extraordinary step of severing relations with Ben Gurion University in Israel. It was probably the first, and certainly the most significant, university to take such…

This article was submitted to Working In These Times on 30 May in response to an article they had published. They have not responded, nor published this, nor even acknowledged receipt of the article despite…

A political earthquake is taking place in North America – and it’s completely off the radar of the mainstream media in most countries. In another week, it is entirely possible that Jack Layton (pictured), a…