We have been here before, and last time it was far worse. Somewhere between 50 and 100 million people died during the so-called “Spanish Flu”, for which there was no cure and no vaccine,…Read more…
Does America need a socialist party?
In the aftermath of the disappointing results for the Sanders campaign in the primaries following Nevada, supporters of the self-described “democratic socialist” Senator from Vermont have been…Read more…
Review: A Death in Jerusalem, by Kati Marton
Journalist Kati Marton’s 1994 book opens with a description of the massacre of Arab worshippers in Hebron early that year by a far-right Jewish terrorist named Baruch Goldstein. Had her book…Read more…
Sanders’ socialist plan for the pandemic
The mainstream media has already written off Bernie Sanders and crowned Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate to challenge Donald Trump (despite the primaries being far from over). But that hasn’t…Read more…
Review: Instead of Arms, by Count Folke Bernadotte
“I myself have been criticized because, during the last war, as one of the leaders of the Swedish Red Cross, I did not publicly denounce Nazism and its methods.” So wrote Count Folke…Read more…
Political revolution in the age of pandemics
The decision by the AFL-CIO to cancel the planned candidates’ forum in Florida this week is bad news for Bernie Sanders. This would have been the perfect opportunity for Sanders to challenge his sole…Read more…
Bernie Sanders’ Cuba Problem
As the possibility grows of Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination for President, his opponents are looking for vulnerabilities that can be exploited. This shouldn’t be difficult, as…Read more…
How Sanders wins
For some time now I’ve been arguing that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is the front-runner in the race to be the Democratic candidate to face off against Donald Trump in November. A few months…Read more…
Review: To Jerusalem, by Count Folke Bernadotte
This is the diary of Counte Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations Mediator sent to manage the truce between Israeli and Arab forces during the War of Independence and also to make progress toward a…Read more…
Review: Hitler’s Death: The Case Against Conspiracy, by Luke Daly-Groves
Adolf Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945 in his bunker in Berlin. He did not escape to Argentina in a U-boat. He did not go into hiding in a monastery in Tibet. He was…Read more…
Nevada: Bump in the road for Sanders?
Next Saturday (22 February) voters in Nevada will participate in caucuses to choose their 48 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Early voting has already begun. According to the latest…Read more…
Review: Last Days of the Reich, by Count Folke Bernadotte
Before he was the United Nations peace envoy to the Middle East during the first Israeli-Arab war, Count Folke Bernadotte played a central role in a bizarre series of meetings with Heinrich Himmler…Read more…
Review: Stern: The man and his gang, by Zev Golan
I asked a friend recently what he knew about the Stern Gang, and he replied that they were “very small … and vicious”. That pretty much sums up the group known as the…Read more…
Thinking beyond the primaries
This article appears in this week’s issue of Solidarity. In early June, voters in the U.S. territory of the Virgin Islands will go to the polls to choose their delegates for the Democratic…Read more…
Sanders and the unions
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. Bernie Sanders has introduced a new phrase into American politics: “working class.” For decades, hardly anyone has used those two words…Read more…
Bernie Sanders – Dangerous Trotskyist?
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. In the hunt for dirt on Bernie Sanders, hostile journalists have come up with very little. He had his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. He…Read more…
Review: The Reckoning: How the Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land, by Patrick Bishop
This is the story of the killing of Avraham “Yair” Stern, the leader of the Jewish underground group in Palestine that bore his name, by a British police officer in Tel Aviv in 1942….Read more…
Why the Georgian Experiment matters to Russia today
This is the speech I gave in Moscow on 16 January 2020 to mark the publication of The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 in Russian. First of all, I would like to thank the…Read more…
Review: Downsizing, by Tom Watson
Tom Watson was, until very recently, the deputy leader of the British Labour Party. A few years ago, he was diagnosed as suffering from Type 2 Diabetes. At the time, he was 50 years old…Read more…
The “Bernie Blackout” is now over
This article appeared on the website of Workers Liberty. A few weeks ago, the mainstream media narrative about Bernie Sanders ran like this: Sanders appeals to a very limited audience in the…Read more…