Fight in British unions for solidarity, not boycotts
This article appears in Solidarity. In the course of just a few days, three news stories came across my desk that highlighted one of the problems we face in the British trade union movement. As…
This article appears in Solidarity. In the course of just a few days, three news stories came across my desk that highlighted one of the problems we face in the British trade union movement. As…
At first glance, who could oppose the Palestine Solidarity Campaign? The very name implies one of the most noble human aspirations — solidarity with a people. And in particular a people like the Palestinians, whose suffering is…
In 1975, at a conference in Boston, I met a local socialist activist and when I asked him where he fit in politically, he replied that he was a “1946 Shachtmanite”. I learned that a…
This is nice – on a website of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
This article appeared in Solidarity today. The announcement that another high street retailer, Comet, had bit the dust was hardly unexpected. We’re in the midst of a recession, competition is fierce, the company had long…
This article appears in the latest issue of International Union Rights, the magazine of the London-based International Centre for Trade Union Rights. The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea is one of the most difficult places…
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,…
The following article appears in Jungle World this week. Um Sparmaßnahmen und Privatisierungen durchzusetzen, greifen immer mehr als demokratisch geltende Staaten zu Gewalt gegen Gewerkschaften. Während sich die globale ökonomische Krise verschlimmert, wenden nationale Regierungen…
This article appears in the latest edition of Solidarity. Please post any comments you may have to the discussion there. Every four years, an odd little debate occurs on the Left. Here is what happens:…
An edited version of this article appears in In These Times. More than twenty years before the fall of the Mubarak regime, Egyptian workers were in revolt. One of the young rebels, Kamal Abbas, a…