Building support for Migrant Workers
I’m attending a conference today organized by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) here in London. There seems to be some kind of wireless Internet connection, so if I can, I will blog throughout the day…
Lebanon 2006: A debacle for Israel?
A quarter century ago, I stood with an American friend at a peace rally in Tel-Aviv. We were both veterans of the anti-Vietnam war movement, and my friend commented how similar had been the trajectories…
OpenOffice: What are unions waiting for?
Every union in Britain can start saving money today by abandoning Microsoft Office and switching over to use OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org).
The new web and the unions
There’s been a lot of talk lately about something called “Web 2.0”. The term is pure buzz; the web is the same web it has always been. But certain features of the web, some of…
“Spooks” takes a break from Israel-bashing
I’m delighted to report that this week, for the first time in a month, the BBC TV spy series “Spooks” did not feature homicidal Mossad hit-men from Israel in a leading role.
Beyond email and the web: A union uses text messaging to mobilize its members
I often tell people that I work with unions and the new communications technologies and get asked if that means email and the web. It doesn’t; it means those technologies plus others, including some which…
Independent Georgia Under Russian Threat: Echoes of 1921
In recent days, tensions between Russia and Georgia have escalated enormously – a fact largely ignored by the British Left. Most of us would be hard-pressed to remember the most basic details about this tiny…
Robert Rosenberg, 1951-2006
Back in 1996, I began writing a weekly blog (before there were such things as blogs) called BibiWATCH. That was how I met Robert Rosenberg.
Once more on the subject of “Spooks”
Following a special double episode of the hit BBC television series “Spooks” in which the bad guys turned out to be the Israeli Mossad (see my previous article) you’d think they would take a break….
“Spooks” and the Jews: The BBC crosses a red line
The BBC has just aired a special two-part episode of the hit television series “Spooks” in which the villains — a team of terrorists — turn out to be agents of the Israeli government.