2024-04-01 15:00
Continuing my monthly reposts from the archive, this is from April 2009, when the Metropolitan police killed 47 year old newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson at a demonstration against the G20 sum… Read More
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2024-03-27 23:03
An extract (in my translation and with my added emphasis) from a French blog post by London-based political scientist Philippe Marlière: Polarization and radicalityPolarization i… Read More
2024-03-15 10:17
A long time ago, I used to regularly schedule reposts of some of the better old content on my blog whenever I was switching off for a couple of weeks. Nowadays, I've more or less switc… Read More
2024-02-20 10:07
I've not managed to keep this blog going lately, so I'm going to try to schedule post from the archive once a month, so it stays warm even if I don't get back to it. The original post here w… Read More
2024-01-31 12:30
Or, more precisely, it's the 19th birthday of this blog. Maybe next year I'll write some kind of reflection on this wild two decade ride (here was what I wrote on the 10th birthday) but for… Read More
2023-11-12 00:56
In this third edition, we get a little deeper than previous editions, pushing in to some key controversies, such as around terms like "genocide", "pogrom", "settler colonialism", and "ceasef… Read More
2023-11-07 11:31
By Jess O'Thomson, Trans Safety Network [archived]UPDATE on the August demonstration:Far-right anti-drag protesters fail to intimidate LGBTQ+ community in Honor Oak, by Sian Bradl… Read More
2023-11-07 10:40
Tamara Himani in The New ArabExtract:Among Brand’s defenders are figures often associated with the Alt-Right - such as Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shap… Read More
2023-10-29 09:39
Last week, I collected together several links about the current tragedy, including statements by various left, anarchist, trade union and human rights groups, as well as personal reflec… Read More
2023-10-20 15:11
In this post, some links relating to Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Israeli response. Needless to say, the material linked here comes from a range of perspectives and is contradictor… Read More
2023-08-24 15:49
Druze protestors, via Syria ObserverThe Syrian revolution is not dead. This week regime-controlled parts of southern Syria have exploded with protests: men and women, religious and secular… Read More
2023-08-24 13:59
February counter-protest, via RS21At the end of March, the Honor Oak pub in Southeast London saw the second monthly mobilisation of far right activists under the brand of "Turning Point UK"… Read More
2023-08-24 12:09
Watching radicalisation in real time: how conservative culture wars and fringe conspiracy theories led to the killing of a California storekeeper. This is a Twitter thread I wrote today… Read More
2023-05-20 16:13
A 35 year old woman, Randi Nord, was arrested in Detroit for an attack on a synagogue and on a Scientology church. She was charged with "ethnic intimidation and vandalism" she spray painted… Read More
2023-05-11 14:21
This is the flower of the partisan O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao This is the flower of the partisan Who died for freedom
Some tragic losses at the end o… Read More
2022-02-21 18:21
Stop The War is in the news for its opposition to Western action to protect Ukraine. Labour leader Keir Starmer has gone so far as to say "At best they are naive, at worst they actively give… Read More
![Stephen J. Sniegoski And David Miller: Promoting An Antisemite? [by Vorkoz]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/107/10671-4205712589.w320.jpg "Stephen J. Sniegoski And David Miller: Promoting An Antisemite? [by Vorkoz]")
2021-09-03 10:50
This is a guest post by Vorkoz. Content in square brackets is added by Bob. University of Bristol professor David Miller has previously been accused of sharing far-right propaganda on a… Read More
2021-07-02 21:53
At the time of the last general election, towards the end of 2019, I wrote a long post on why the Tories are not the anti-antisemitic party. This post briefly updates the Tory antisemitism f… Read More
2021-05-27 17:29
This is intended to be part of a longer series called "The Canary's Greatest Hits". This does everything but say the name 'Seth Rich' and 'was murdered'. This is The Canary going full-o… Read More
2021-02-07 13:03
This post dates from exactly a decade ago, 7 February 2011, as the "Arab Spring" spread from Tunisia to Egypt and Libya and beyond. A time of hope. I have slightly edited it, especiall… Read More
2021-01-20 12:06
This post is from exactly a decade ago, 20 January 2011, and was part of the "Carnival of Socialism" where different socialist bloggers would round up what was going on in the socialist blog… Read More
2020-11-09 18:31
Today sees the start of the new series of BBC Radio 4's superb podcast programme Intrigue. This series, entitled Mayday, focuses on the late James Le Mesurier, British founder of free Syria'… Read More
2020-11-09 11:24
This paragraph has been removed from the Wikipedia page for retired American professor James Petras, so am pasting it here:In 2011, Mark Gardner of the Community Security Trust, w… Read More
2020-10-27 10:54
This is a section on hoaxes about "antifa" from the current version of the Wikipedia article on American antifa. I am pasting it here as the article talk page suggests the section will be ed… Read More
2020-09-24 17:03
Just pasting the following sources here for reference: Muir, Hugh (29 July 2013). "Diary: Adieu, Comrade Delta. The SWP leader at the centre of sex abuse allegations departs"… Read More
2020-07-10 10:02
Reports from inside Douma, April 2018:CBS: Inside DoumaTV4 Nyheterna: "My throat hurts" - Swedish news team in building of suspected gas attack in Syria On evidence-tampering… Read More
2020-06-24 16:05
My post on what Boris Johnson advisor Munira Mirza and brief Brexit MEP Claire Fox have in common - a background in the formerly left-wing sect that rebranded from the Revolutionary Communis… Read More
2020-06-11 16:38
Peter Hitchens, brother of one of my favourite political writers, has some bad takes. At the moment, he is in the news for scorning the idea that the Corona virus is a threat. But there's mo… Read More
2020-06-11 16:30
Here's a Twitter thread about the 6 June Black Lives Matter demonstration in London. Read More
2020-06-11 16:29
Below is a Twitter thread on the revelation that Michael Gove has a few books by key alt-right and new right "thinkers" on his bookshelves. Specifically, it focuses on Paul Gottfried. … Read More
2020-06-11 16:21
I wrote a long Twitter thread over the last several weeks about some of the conspiracy theories, denialism, disinformation and misinformation about the novel Corona virus. It features Global… Read More
2020-05-05 09:59
This post was written on 5 May 2010, the day David Cameron won the election, ushering in the decade of dreadful Tory rule we've now experienced. I went to my local Starburger cafe in Cr… Read More
2020-05-01 16:25
Antisemitism....I haven't had time for this blog lately, and when I checked my comment moderation queue it was quite full, mostly with spam, but this, a response to my Chris Williamson post… Read More
2020-01-08 13:29
I wrote this post in 2010, in the early years of the Cameron-Clegg coalition. I am re-posting it now as an oblique comment on the Labour Party leadership contest. It was part of a series on… Read More
2019-12-31 12:51
So, as the decade comes to a close, here's a look back at some of my top read posts of the last ten years. It's been a long decade.1. TROTS!On why it's Stalinists rather than Trots the Labou… Read More
2019-12-30 12:35
You've all been waiting for this. I do it every year. My top read posts of the year.1. THE RCP'S LONG MARCH FROM ANTI-IMPERIALIST OUTSIDERS TO THE DOORS OF DOWNING STREETOn how a bizarre Tro… Read More
2019-11-25 17:42
Don't let the Tories use Jews as a political footballAnyone who reads this blog regularly or follows me on Twitter will know that I see Labour antisemitism as a real and massive problem: the… Read More
2019-08-30 13:24
Brexit Bolsheviks: The Lexit left backing Boris JohnsonJim Denham on the Morning Star's support for BJ; Coatesy on the full-range of red-brown wingnuts backing him, from George Galloway and… Read More
2019-08-22 21:16
This post was an email I wrote (hence lack of links and editing) in response to Cathy Young’s article in The Forward “The Dayton Murderer Is Proof We Need To Take Left-Wing Viole… Read More
2019-08-11 12:14
This post links to a few important pieces about Syria written over the last year which I have had open in my tabs. First, I wrote the following two paragraphs at the very end of 2017, as par… Read More
2019-08-02 16:27
In this edition, Labour antisemitism, the alt-left, anti-antifa, Ukrainian foreign fighters, Seymour Hersh's senility, Lexit idiocy... and MintPress and Breitbart's war on Bobism.After Panor… Read More
2019-07-31 20:27
My last post on Spiked and its connections to the Brexit right got a lot of airplay. I was pleased to be asked to repost at Bella Caledonia, and to be the source for a very good post by Loui… Read More
2019-07-27 11:49
This week it was announced that Munira Mirza would be joining new prime minister Boris Johnson's team as head of Number 10’s policy unit. Mirza, mis-identifed by the Independent a… Read More
2019-07-12 17:05
This week's round-up is particularly depressing...After Panorama: Labour antisemitismThree Jewish Labour members have spoken to us about their experiences of anti-Semitism in the Party.One o… Read More
2019-06-29 16:21
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen people on Twitter - whether ignorantly or disingenuously - claiming to not know what's wrong with Chris Williamson.Here are just a few of the… Read More
2019-06-28 15:51
This is a cross-post, also appearing in CounterVortex and AntidoteZine. It is a really important text which I'm pleased to publish here. --BThe last major national protest in the US was "Fam… Read More
2019-06-14 17:10
Syria"Behind the Lines", a huge piece of writing about Syria by Shane Bauer that I have only just begun to dive into. For a flavour, here he is in the NE of Syria, in territory taken by Kurd… Read More
2019-06-11 14:34
Max Blumenthal with Tucker Carlson on Fox TV; Stop The War vice president George Galloway; Baroness Jenny TongeA couple of minor brouhahas have erupted in the small UK left social media gala… Read More
2019-06-07 15:53
Truth warsExcellent piece by Uğur Ümit Üngör in the consistently good al-Jumhuriya on the coming narrative war. Keith Kahn-Harris on the dangers of denialism.Pplswar on a… Read More
2019-06-07 15:48
I wrote this thread about The Canary's editor Kerry-Anne Mendoza, who subsequently blocked me.Thread by @bobfrombrockley: "1/x I’m sick of the likes of Kerry Anne Mendoza lecturing us… Read More
2019-05-22 06:22
This week's European elections are some of the most important elections Europe and the UK have faced in my memory. In Europe, left of centre voters and right of centre voters each constitute… Read More
2019-04-26 13:45
A recent Twitter thread by me on the Revolutionary Communist Party, aka Spiked, now the main force in the Full Brexit pressure group and standing candidates for Nigel Farage's far right Brex… Read More
2019-04-06 09:59
I haven't managed to keep up with the flood of sewage coming out of the nationalist left this past month. The cast of characters: a weird amalgam of Arron Banks-funded trade unionists (Paul… Read More
2019-04-04 20:50
Anti-Nazis United has been hosting a new series of weekly round-ups of antisemitism, by Adrian Booth, Morgan Lopez and Arthur Pablo, published every Sunday. Here are a few extracts, but read… Read More
2019-03-14 11:05
Given that I have been writing about left-right convergence for years now, you might think I am an advocate of what is often called "horseshoe theory", the notion that if you go far enough t… Read More
2019-02-08 14:25
IT'S ALL KICKING OFF EVERYWHERE AGAIN...VenezuelaIf you want a five-minute summary of what is actually happening in Venezuela, watch this video by Joanna Hausmann.James Bloodworth on how the… Read More
2019-02-04 17:59
In one of my last posts, I spent a bit of time on critiques of the nationalist turn that has hit the British left in recent years, (I suggested this might part of what Alex Reid Ross calls "… Read More
2019-02-01 18:01
So I didn't manage to post in January, so here we are with the first miscellany of 2019. I thought I'd use it to re-emphasise some of this blog's key agenda items, followed by some recent re… Read More
2018-12-31 18:39
As usual, I am posting here my most-read posts of the year.1. Jeremy Corbyn and Red Action: Sorting truth from smears (September)This post examined a claim made by Andrew Gilligan in the Sun… Read More
2018-12-21 18:02
A great piece by Sulome Anderson on the damage done by the trust fund alt-left personalities Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton, which reminded me to finish off my f… Read More
2018-12-21 17:01
Since then I've learned that Atzmon, a former Israeli soldier, is not confined to the jazz world. I am told that in various blogs and in speeches he has adopted antisemitic language.I wasn't… Read More
2018-12-20 23:03
This - which has been languishing in my drafts folder for far too long - is part 2 of my attempt to fact-check Alex Reid Ross's spiked article for the SPLC on red-brown alliances, focusing o… Read More
2018-12-01 22:57
The fascist creep: Tommy Robinson and the BrexiteersOne of the defining features of our current political moment is what Alex Reid Ross calls "the fascist creep" - how fascist ideas "migrate… Read More
2018-11-23 13:08
In this post, why I hate Chris Williamson, why the "left" case against migration is dangerous, and why the left needs to stop promoting SWP fronts, plus a brief round-up of other reading...C… Read More
2018-11-20 15:17
Just archiving some sentences recently deleted from Gilad Atzmon's Wikipedia article.Note: this post is not aimed at Wikipedia editors and is not an incitement to edit the article, but merel… Read More
2018-11-17 23:10
Friday protests in Syria continue...Mass protests in Idlib 5 October Read More
2018-11-17 23:10
Weekly Anti-Assad protests continue, calling for freedom for detainees...Mass protests in Idlib 28 September Read More
“Bring Down #Assad To Rebuild The Country†- Mass Protests In Idlib, Aleppo And Hama, 12 October
2018-11-17 23:09
Friday protests in Free Syria against Assad and in solidarity with Rukban...Mass protests in Idli, Aleppo and Hama October 12 Read More
2018-11-17 23:08
Weekly protests continue across northern Syria, honouring the White Helmets.Free Syria Friday protests 19 October Read More
2018-11-17 23:07
Thousands protest peacefully against Assad’s war, Friday 14 September... Mass demonstrations in Idlib, Syria Read More
2018-11-17 23:05
Weekly protests continue against Assad regime, under the slogan "No constitution, no reconstruction, until Assad leaves power "...Mass protests in Idlib 21 September Read More
2018-11-17 22:42
Weekly protests against the government continue, this week focusing on regime detainees...Friday protests in free Syria, 16 November Read More
2018-11-02 14:54
Anyone who thinks the “threat” to the West from migration is a legitimate debating point, or who says antifa are the real fascists, or shares an alt-left meme about Soros, is com… Read More
2018-11-02 14:47
A brief thread on Jewish Voice for Labour's deleted tweet about anti-fascism. Thread by @bobfrombrockley: "I see JVL deleted this appalling tweet, although no retraction or apology. As some… Read More
2018-10-26 00:36
This post is about events in central London on Saturday 13th October, based on my own experience and on reports on social media. First, a brief report of what happened (a fuller account can… Read More
2018-10-05 17:32
Just a couple of items on British politics: a new book on Corbynism, the alt-media on the Skripal case, and Jacobin's buy-out of Tribune.Corbynism: A critical approachMatt Bolton a… Read More
2018-10-05 16:29
This post is part of a series I am calling the Reliable Source Project. It contains no original material, but only extracts from already published materials. Where text is in bold the e… Read More
2018-10-05 16:28
This post is part of a series I am calling the Reliable Source Project. It contains no original material, but only extracts from already published materials. Where text is in bold the e… Read More
2018-09-28 16:59
From Twitter, via Threadreader. See also on Threader.Thread by @bobfrombrockley: "[thread] I'm a big fan of nationalised utilities, universal childcare, green jobs,worker share ownershi… Read More
2018-09-21 14:40
This week's miscellany...1.REASONS TO BE ANGRYRight-wing watchDelighted to day I'm back at UKIP conference for another year pic.twitter.com/TrOc6qaW0w— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) September… Read More
2018-09-14 11:32
Syria, anti-imperialism and solidarityLeila al-Shami in Freedom on the left's failure of solidarity with Idlib and in the NYT on the deathblow for democracy in Syria.One Day in Hell - a… Read More
2018-09-07 11:59
Another one of my usual round-ups. Not so long this time.Call to actionSyriaUK on what Britain can do in light of the Assad/Russia assault on Idlib.Street politicsHistory is Made at Night on… Read More
2018-09-03 16:27
I've added these three footnotes to my weekend post on Jeremy Corbyn and Red Action: one on the usage of the term "IRA", one on the possibly connection between RA and the Warrington bombs (w… Read More
2018-09-02 02:25
The Sunday Times of 19 August published an article by Andrew Gilligan entitled "Police examined Jeremy Corbyn links to pro-IRA group Red Action". (A screenshot of the article can be found he… Read More
2018-08-24 16:02
Rohini HensmanIn his epilogue to Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon calls for a “new history of man,” separate from the fake “humanism” preached by colonial Europe… Read More
2018-07-27 16:40
Robert Fisk is published by the Independent - notably in their "Voices" section rather than in their foreign reporting - and hasn't said anything interesting or useful for ages. A lot of wha… Read More
2018-07-27 13:34
Still trawling through the backlog...Against Lexit idiocyI'm getting increasingly irritated at the Fully Automated Luxury People's Brexit brigade (you know who I mean), with their endless sn… Read More
2018-07-06 13:30
Well over a month since my last round-up, so this bunch of links to recent must-reads might be even more obese than normal...Call to actionSyriaUK on why the UK must act on Souther… Read More
2018-05-11 23:14
This week's round-up...UK Politics and Election 2018Lewisham EastMy take on the runners and riders in the forthcoming Lewisham East by-election, and on the selection process. (A thread that… Read More
2018-05-02 16:49
Every May Day, I feel a little more depressed. As a long-time Marxist and trade unionist, May Day should be my holiday. But watching the parade of Stalinist icons parade through London every… Read More
2018-04-27 19:22
I didn't manage to catch all of my backlog in my last link round-up, so this one also has some stuff stretching back into last month.Labour antisemitismI'm getting a bit exhausted with this… Read More
2018-04-20 16:29
So at the start of 2018 I said I'd do regular (weekly or fortnightly) roundups of essential reading, but it kind of fizzled out after a good start. Here's another go. It's a bit big, as it h… Read More
2018-03-18 01:30
In my last post, I quoted from an SPLC report by author Alexander Reid Ross entitled "The multipolar spin: how fascists operationalize left-wing resentment". SPLC since took it down, af… Read More
2018-03-08 15:30
One of my main aims in writing this blog over the last few years has been to expose (and, hopefully, counter) the growth of what I now call the alt-left or "querfront" (cross-front) - the co… Read More
2018-02-24 10:36
This week's theme is truth, lies, and the grey area in between.Corbyn and the commieThis is really good. Its also a bit jarring that the bar for journalism is so low that (an interesting wel… Read More
2018-02-16 13:31
East West StreetPeter Ryley is always a wonderful writer. Here he reviews Philippe Sands' East West Street, and then veers into a brilliant set of asides about nationalism.Antisemitism: Geor… Read More
2018-02-07 12:40
This is a guest post by Anton MukhamedovOn April 15, 2017, several buses evacuating civilians from the towns of Fu’ah and Kafriya besieged by rebels in Idlib province were rocked by an… Read More
2018-02-02 17:41
Another round-up of some of the things I've read over the past days.AfrinWhen we used to go to Kurdish areas to protest with them in 2012. pic.twitter.com/cqdtVqnlSz— Loubna Mrie (@Lou… Read More
2018-01-19 17:20
Can't believe I've kept this up for three weeks in a row now. It'll soon crumble. Today, once again, the main focus is on fascism and the right.The far right 1. In my last post, I named… Read More
2018-01-18 12:11
This is the first in a series of posts where I simply cut and paste published information about some of the names I frequently see quoted on social media. It does not contain any new analysi… Read More
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