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…
Most unions that have websites have sections that are devoted to health and safety issues. But frequently those are among the more static parts of a website. Once set up, they are rarely updated. To…
This article has now been published in Swedish. *** “A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” — Groucho Marx Seriously, if you were born before 1985, you…
Sacha Ismail’s response to my article on Menshevism confirms my belief that even in the very best Trotskyist organizations, members remain ill-informed about the very foundations of their politics.
Back in the 1930s, CIO organizers in the American South would go to factory gates and hand out leaflets with pictures of President Roosevelt, decorated with the national flag. And the leaflets would proclaim in…