A very short open letter to George Galloway, MP
Dear Sir: Last week, following the attacks in London, you wrote: “No one can condone acts of violence aimed at working people going about their daily lives. They have not been a party to, nor…
Dear Sir: Last week, following the attacks in London, you wrote: “No one can condone acts of violence aimed at working people going about their daily lives. They have not been a party to, nor…
Ed McBain has died of cancer at the age of 78. I discovered his books relatively late in life, nearly 20 years ago. And then I read through them one by one, all the books…
Thanks to all of you who wrote in asking if we were alright. I don’t want to add my own voice just yet to the many who have already written about this, but let me…
When LabourStart began back in 1998, news was one of its three main features (the others were a directory of union websites and links to online campaigns run by unions). One of the three columns…
Last Friday, the British daily newspaper The Independent ran a column by Johann Hari which while it opposed the AUT boycott of Israel did call for “smart sanctions” instead. My letter in response to Hari…
A decade ago, maybe even five years ago, the story I’m about to tell could never have happened.
Two of the recent campaigns we’ve run on the LabourStart website are what one might consider success stories. And yet the results — so far — could not be more different. One of the campaigns…
The battle over workers’ rights at Wal-Mart is increasingly being fought in cyberspace.
For the first time in memory — perhaps the first time ever — American unions are discussing their future. And that discussion is taking place, in large part, on the web.
If you ever want to be a best-selling author, take my advice: don’t write books about and for trade unionists. Our movement with its millions of members does many things very well but one thing…