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At Karl Marx’s grave

Sep 7, 2024By Eric Lee

Last weekend, as part of our wedding celebration, we invited guests from all over the world to come to Highgate Cemetery and to visit the grave of Karl Marx. (Doesn’t everyone do this?). Here is…Read more…

Sep 7, 2024Eric Lee

50 years later …

Jul 4, 2023By Eric Lee

This week marks the 50th anniversary of my first visit to Israel. It was July 1973 and I was one of a group of six members of the Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL) sent to…Read more…

Jul 4, 2023Eric Lee

To understand Putin, read Karl Marx

Apr 8, 2022By Eric Lee

Seventy years ago at the height of the Cold War a book was published in the US entitled The Russian Menace to Europe.  It made the case that “the major objective of Russian foreign policy…Read more…

Apr 8, 2022Eric Lee

I am running for a seat on the Executive Committee of Democrats Abroad UK

Feb 26, 2021By Eric Lee

This is my candidate statement: When I launched the Bernie Sanders campaign in the U.K. in July 2015 – at the Independence Day picnic of Democrats Abroad in Portman Square – I had no idea…Read more…

Feb 26, 2021Eric Lee

100 years on, the Georgian experiment remains relevant

Feb 8, 2021By Eric Lee

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in February 1921.  This is significant today, and not only for Georgians and Russians.  Back in 1921, Georgia was ruled by the…Read more…

Feb 8, 2021Eric Lee

100 years on, the Georgian experiment remains relevant

Feb 8, 2021By Eric Lee

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in February 1921.  This is significant today, and not only for Georgians and Russians.  Back in 1921, Georgia was ruled by the…Read more…

Feb 8, 2021Eric Lee

Ken Livingstone in Tel Aviv

Apr 10, 2017By Eric Lee

In November 1986, Ken Livingstone visited Israel as the guest of Mapam (the United Workers’ Party). He toured the country, appeared on national television, met Knesset members, visited a…Read more…

Apr 10, 2017Eric Lee

After just one primary, Bernie Sanders is the most successful socialist politician in the US in 80 years

Feb 23, 2016By Eric Lee

As someone who enjoys political history and playing around with numbers, here are the vote totals for democratic socialist candidates for US president since 1900, when Eugene Debs first ran. In 1924,…Read more…

Feb 23, 2016Eric Lee

Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first socialist president?

Dec 10, 2015By Eric Lee

Bernie Sanders is not the first socialist to run for President of the United States. He is not even the first socialist to do so with mass support. To understand the Sanders campaign, it is…Read more…

Dec 10, 2015Eric Lee

Dr Arieh Yaari, 1918-2005

Aug 10, 2015By Eric Lee

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Dr Arieh Yaari — socialist, Zionist and fighter for peace. I first met Arieh in January 1981 when I arrived at Kibbutz Ein Dor as a new…Read more…

Aug 10, 2015Eric Lee

Organizing the unorganized

Jun 19, 2015By Eric Lee

No one has any time.  We all have too much to do. This is true for businessmen; it’s true for students; it’s true for activists like myself. Is your email inbox overflowing?  Do you have…Read more…

Jun 19, 2015Eric Lee

Shock victory for the Left as Tories ousted

May 6, 2015By Eric Lee

Tomorrow is election day here in Britain, and that headline is unlikely to grace the front page of any of our newspapers on the morning after. But it’s a real headline and it describes what…Read more…

May 6, 2015Eric Lee

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