This article also appears in Solidarity – please add any comments there. This may be news to some, but what is today commonplace was once quite rare. I’m referring to anti-Semitism on the far Left…
This article appeared in Jungle World. Britischen Kampffliegern des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist in London ein Denkmal gewidmet worden. Trotz des Erfolgs ist ihr Einsatz gegen Nazideutschland umstritten. Am 28. Juni weihte Königin Elisabeth II. ein Denkmal…
This article was published in Solidarity. A century and a half ago, workers’ leaders from a number of European countries met in St. Martin’s Hall in London under a banner proclaiming “All men are brothers.”…
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…
This article appeared in Notizie Internazionali, published by FIOM-CGIL in Italy. “Questo è un giorno che non dimenticherò mai ” ha detto Jyrki Raina, il neo eletto Segretario Generale di IndustriALL Global Union—ma non era…
This article appeared in In These Times. “This is a day that I will never forget,” said Jyrki Raina, the newly-elected General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union — but one could not be sure what…
This article appeared in the Morning Star today. At the beginning of this month, the prosecution of former US Senator John Edwards for breaking campaign financing laws ended in a fiasco. The federal jury in…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. John Edwards was once the shining hope of American progressives; today, he’s a disgraced former politician. Last week, his trial in federal court ended with an…
This article appeared in In These Times. To some, trade union internationalism may seem to be a very old-fashioned notion, even quaint. One might imagine that in some of world’s leading corporate boardrooms the use…
I think two months is long enough to decide whether buying a Samsung Galaxy Note was a good idea or not. I should preface this by saying that though I’m an early adopter, I’m also…