The software we use
Is there such a thing as politically-correct computer software?
How do you say ‘globalise resistance’ in Urdu?
One sees the slogan ‘globalise resistance’ more and more these days, and yet the reality is that the labour movement and left continues to use many of the old techniques and technologies which so colosally…
How to stop the spread of computer viruses
Those of you who have email may have had a nasty surprise or two in your Inbox this week. The Badtrans-B virus was one of the very worst to spread through the Internet and is…
An email program socialists should love
In my column last week I mentioned an email program called Pegasus Mail. As you may recall, I pointed out that it’s an alternative to Microsoft Outlook Express. As everyone now knows, Microsoft’s programs are…
The end of free
In the beginning, everything on the net was free. You wanted a website? There were hundreds — maybe thousands — of free offers. Needed web-based email? Hotmail was only the first of many thousands of…
It’s time to move beyond the silent era on websites
It’s 2001 already — and the movies are more than a century old. We’ve had movies with sound since the late 1920s, and colour films since just before the Second World War. If someone were…
Labour’s Year in Review – 2001
Every magazine and newspaper in the world is going to have to rewrite their end-of- year surveys to reflect the significance of the events of September 11th — and this is just as true for…
Using PGP to keep your email private
Whatever one thinks of the US-led “war against terrorism”, there is cause for concern that civil liberties in Western countries are going to be eroded.
After the terror: Net helps world’s unions speak in a single voice
Perhaps the greatest tragedy ever to befall the socialist movement occurred in August 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War.
Switched On
Unions have seen the light about new technology — although not necessarily in the ways outsiders might expect. Report from a major conference on unions and the internet.