2018-01-12 13:07
I'm going to try and do this more often, like I used to, a quick, simple round-up of some of the good stuff I've read during the week.Fascism in AmericaSpencer Sunshine at PRA with an impres… Read More
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2018-01-04 16:33
These are some of the tabs I've had open on my machine for the last month or two: interesting, mostly longish reads, some of them highly recommended, especially the first bunch.The alt-left… Read More
2018-01-04 16:07
The Washington Post opens a new story:The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. — the middle of the day in Mo… Read More
2017-12-09 01:19
Back in 2015 I wrote a post with seven reasons to stop Galloway getting elected in Bradford West. As Andrew Murray, recent Communist Party of Britain member and close Jeremy Corbyn associate… Read More
2017-11-03 17:40
Veteran Israeli-born Marxist and former member of the Moshe Machover authored a leaflet on antisemitism, Zionism and Nazism circulated at Labour Party conference in Brighton in Se… Read More
2017-10-31 16:29
Nigel Farage blames the Jews... [View the story "Nigel Farage's Jewish problem" on Storify]Previously:Pegida UK, UKIP and the mainstreaming of anti-Muslim bigotryWhat's wrong with UKIP?Anne… Read More
2017-10-31 16:25
A Twitter thread from yesterday for Daphne Caruana Galizia: Crooks everywhere you look Read More
2017-09-20 19:42
I just did a quick Tumblr post on the alt-left, as revealed by responses to Morgan Freeman's call for Russia's manipulation of US politics to be properly investigated. All the usual suspects… Read More
2017-08-22 19:31
The word "antifa" - not so long ago an arcane term in English, used mainly by anarchists to refer to a very specific form of militant anti-fascism that comes out of the German autonomist tra… Read More
2017-07-21 16:12
Tired of being asked to "prove" that SUTR is a front organisation for the Socialist Workers Party, I made this quick Storify:[View the story "Is Stand Up To Racism an SWP front?" on Storify]… Read More
2017-04-04 16:40
As I write this Ken Livingstone is awaiting a judgement on his expulsion from the Labour Party for bringing it into disrepute by his obsessive invocation of Hitler. Note, the charge is not a… Read More
2017-02-28 12:49
Back in October, in my friendly advice to Jeremy Corbyn, I suggested that the no.1 priority for the party was to get a communications strategy. I suggested that putting Seumas Milne in charg… Read More
2017-02-24 16:10
Some women who punched fascists, Yugoslavia, 1943I wrote four very short throwaway posts on punching fascists these last few weeks, since that viral video of alt-right pin-up Richard Spencer… Read More
2017-01-27 10:00
I wrote most of this post on the eve of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, anticipating a bleak dawn for America and humanity tomorrow. I didn't have time to tidy it up, so am doing… Read More
2016-12-31 13:14
Well, not many people I know will be missing 2016, a year of slaughter in Syria, of repression in Turkey, of starvation in Venezuela, of global electoral swings towards reactionary and autho… Read More
2016-12-06 14:22
Here are two letters published in Media Diversified, relating to something I wrote about here. The first is from 6 October:Stand Up To Racism: Stand Up To Rape Culture An earlier v… Read More
2016-11-26 00:59
Ideas for Change?The "Brockley Festival of Ideas for Change" was advertised some time ago, with an odd, eclectic collection of mainly left-wing speakers, and sponsored by the local civi… Read More
2016-10-02 10:56
I wrote the first draft of this post last weekend, when conference was just beginning. I am now more optimistic about some of these things than I was then, but less optimistic about others… Read More
2016-09-30 20:40
I just read this great comment by John Penney on an excellent Left Futures post by Andy Newman about Labour's current antisemitism controversy. Newman is not always someone I agree with, esp… Read More
2016-08-09 17:00
Away for a couple of weeks, so one from the archive. This is from September 2008, on the eve of Obama's first election, and seems kind of relevant in this American election year. &ldquo&hell…Read More
2016-07-22 23:43
Detail from Alun's map of British Trotskyism, 2015, Revolutionary HistoryA menace is apparently stalking the Labour Party, that of the "Trots":Future of Labour Party depends on electing @Owe… Read More
2016-05-02 08:58
As a footnote to yesterday's post, below is a scan of two pages from the book Ken Livingstone claims is his source on Hitler and the Zionists.Here's the money quote:Throughout the period, th… Read More
2016-04-29 16:53
These thoughts are are the most undigested I've ever put in a blogpost, but I just wanted to get them down. They're based on an email I dictated into my phone while walking this morning, so… Read More
2016-04-29 15:21
#PanamaPapers #SaveOurSteel: Read More
2016-04-08 11:09
I was very sad to see last night that the wonderful Merle Haggard has passed away.I've collected here some of the times I've blogged about him over the last decade...Untamed hawkJohnny Cash… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
South London's finest, Alabama 3, with a tribute to working class hero Bob Crow: ..born under a red flag Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I've been too busy for blogging lately, so here's something to fill the space. I write it almost exactly five years ago, at the quarter century of the Miners' Strike, whose 30th anniversary… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Here is a question from a friend:If you were organising a Labour Movement Film Festival, what films would you show, and why?I've got some ideas, but I'll see what you say first. Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The House of Pheme [Rumour]Johann Wilhelm Baur, Edition 1709, Ovid, Met. XII, 46-45In Metamorphoses, Ovid describes the house where Rumour dwells, at “the middle of the world, between… Read More
2016-03-15 13:10
Continuing my posting from the dusty archives.This one, from July 2008, was originally entitled "An Extraordinary Claim". It seems extremely relevant now for a few reasons. The "realist" for… Read More
2016-03-09 12:26
Continuing my postings from the archive with another music post from June 2008. The mp3 links seem to still work, to my surprise, although now you have to register to hear them, so I've adde… Read More
2016-03-03 12:14
Apologies (in the unlikely event that you're bothered) for the lack of posting. I'll post a couple more oldies to fill the void. This one is from May 2008, and ever so slightly re-written to… Read More
2016-01-22 14:03
I don't have time to blog right now, but I wanted to keep the place alive so I thought I'd follow my normal habit of fetching something up from the archive to fill the space. We're up to Apr… Read More
2015-11-13 09:57
Stop the War (StW) have a track record of denying a platform to Syrian voices when they hold events about Syria. As I've said before, this is like an organisation holding repeated #BlackLive… Read More
2015-11-12 17:26
This post is about events at an occupied social space in Mytilene (Μυτιλήνη – Mitilini), the capital of Lesbos (Lesvos), on 10 November 2015… Read More
2015-11-04 17:06
Back in September, I started a series of posts entitled "Six things your government can do about Syria". I argued then for a No Fly Zone. Shortly after I wrote it, the situation on the groun… Read More
2015-10-21 10:09
You'll have heard by now that Seumas Milne has been appointed executive director of strategy and communications for the Labour party. This is a disastrous decision for (at least) three… Read More
2015-10-13 15:54
This is a guest post by Twlldun, republished with permission, from medium.com. It was posted during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester. I have added a couple of hyperlinks, plus… Read More
2015-09-11 08:58
Liberated Kafranbel, Syria, September 2015Lots of people believe that it is basically too late to do anything about Syria. It's such a mess. There are so many sides. It's hard to tell who th… Read More
2015-09-04 09:19
[UPDATED 1 Sept 07:25, 08:29, 19:11]This quick blog post is a response to a discussion (actually a couple of discussions) I’ve had on Twitter, relating to Jeremy Corbyn, his associates… Read More
2015-09-04 09:19
As I often do when likely to be off-line for a while, I dig out some stuff from my blogging archive. This post is from February 2008, from the fifth anniversary of the massive march against… Read More
2015-08-27 15:10
Jeremy Corbyn's candidacy for leadership of the Labour Party continues to arouse strong emotions. There has been a lot of focus on the company he keeps. On the one hand, critics (including m… Read More
2015-08-26 17:11
Over recent weeks, there have been an increasing number of allegations and exposés of Jeremy Corbyn's associations with antisemites. Nobody serious is suggesting that Corbyn is the le… Read More
2015-08-18 20:58
This post is from April 2008. It responds to two posts by close blog-comrades of that time. The comment thread is worth reading too. (Jura Watchmaker is Francis Sedgemore, then part of the m… Read More
2015-08-12 20:57
Still off-line, here's a post from March 2008. When I was younger - say, 15 years ago - I was deeply dismissive of the Free Tibet campaign. It was not that I was against the rights of t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Here are the posts with the most hits of the year.1. Who is Milo Samuels?I'm not sure why this is such a best-seller. It summarises the suggestion (made originally, I think, by Sadia Jabeen)… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I've been doing this every year for a while now (here's last year), after a habit of the late Norman Geras. There was one month (February) when I didn't blog at all, so I've included my firs… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This is a brief account of an unpleasant experience in Twitter I had on Friday night. I thought it gave a fascinating insight into the convergence of various kinds of bigotry. Warning: not… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria? Never has a figure been so universally doubted.Some people doubt it because they simply doubt any number and specifically any politician who use… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
These are complicated and scary times. After fifteen years of murderous terrorist attacks by jihadis in the name of Islam coinciding with a period of unprecedented international migration, i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This post is prompted by David Cameron’s recent speechsetting out a new agenda on addressing the threat of Islamist violent extremism, and also by the recent launch of a whole series o… Read More
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