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Shiraz Socialist (Second Run)

AWL statement on Unite GS election: “no good option” but possibly either Graham or Turner - By Ollie Moore Members of Unite, one of Britain’s largest trade unions, will elect a new general secretary. Len McCluskey, who has been in office since 201...
15 hours ago
Pandaemonium

IMMIGRATION AND THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM - This essay, on the lessons of Denmark’s refugee policy, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 18 April 2021, under the headline “By demonis...
1 day ago
The Syrian Intifada

Who Are The Victims of “Radicalisation”? - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 April 2021 The rise of far-Right extremism in the West, in the United States in particular, has been one of the major m...
1 day ago
Spencer Sunshine

Review of Failed Führers by Graham Macklin - Graham Macklin, Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right (Routledge, 2020). Review by Spencer Sunshine Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers is a maj...
3 days ago
threewayfight

Review of Failed Führers by Graham Macklin - *Guest post by Spencer Sunshine * Graham Macklin, *Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right*(Routledge, 2020). Review by Spencer Sunshine G...
3 days ago
Eric Lee

Review: How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers, by Sönke Ahrens - What a long title for such a short book! A short book – but not an easy one. Ahrens is clearly an academic and this heavily footnoted book, full of citatio...
5 days ago
History is made at night

Love is the Message Podcast - I was pretty excited to hear that Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert have started a new podcast, Love is the Message. Tim is the great cultural historian o...
1 week ago
Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism

Why Israel stops when the siren sounds – David Hirsh - Today is Yom HaZikaron. It is the day when Israelis remember those who were killed while on active duty for Israel’s armed services and Israelis who were k...
1 week ago
New Jewish Resistance

Requiem for the Yemeni Jews - In Episode 68 of the CounterVortex podcast, *Bill Weinberg* offers a meditation on the final demise of the millennia-old Jewish community in Yemen, as th...
1 week ago
Greater Surbiton

‘Don’t cry for Sarajevo’ – the story of a Serb nationalist in besieged Sarajevo - Review of Visnja Krstajic Stojanovic, Ne placi za Sarajevo (Don’t cry for Sarajevo), 2nd edition, Trebnik, Belgrade, 1997 (fourth edition published in 2014...
1 week ago
Mystical Politics

Yom Ha-Shoah - Mordekhai Falkon (originally published on April 25, 2006) - (Originally published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006) Since today is Yom Ha-Shoah - the day of remembrance of the Holocaust - I thought I would mention briefly...
2 weeks ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan

Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19 - On April 19, the Congress for Jewish Culture, along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and Workers Circle, will once again observe the annive...
2 weeks ago
Hummus For Thought

HFT Newsletter #7 - Welcome to the seventh newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations, curated by Joey Ayoub (hello) from Geneva, S...
2 weeks ago
aNtiDoTe Zine

Zine: Tekmîllin’ Like a Villain - A short guide to a simple and transformative way to commune-icate, inspired by practice in Rojava, informed by experience in Mni Sota.
3 weeks ago
Joey Ayoub

The Revolutionizing Nature of the Lebanese Uprising - Another look into the October 2019 uprising in Lebanon, from a published book chapter.… Continue reading The Revolutionizing Nature of the Lebanese Uprising →
3 weeks ago
Jewish Labor Committee

The Matzah of Affliction, Amazon Workers, and a special Passover Haggadah - March 25, 2021 - This year, Passover will take place during a historic moment in the labor movement. Thousands of votes have already been cast by workers a...
3 weeks ago
Syrian Revolution Commentary and Analysis

Building alternative futures in the present: the case of Syria’s communes - Originally posted on Leila's blog: Originally published at The Funambulist “We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we...
4 weeks ago
Leila's blog | a blog on popular struggles, human rights and social justice from an anti-authoritarian perspective

Building alternative futures in the present: the case of Syria’s communes - Originally published at The Funambulist “We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and ...
5 weeks ago
Max Dunbar

Bric-A-Brac And Murder - Weldon Kees, the great Larkin of American suburbs, wrote a poem ‘Crime Club’ that is also an impossible mystery. His case is an absence of helpful clues: ‘...
5 weeks ago
Flesh is Grass

Covid buttock - Early February 2020, in Covent Garden each evening more and more of the tourists – especially the ones who looked like they were from East Asia – were wear...
1 month ago
The Centre Left

The ripples from the US election and its aftermath could profoundly affect Labour's journey from here - It should be uncontroversial at this point, for any (small-"d") democrat, to say that the election of Joe Biden is immensely good news for the world in g...
2 months ago
Fat Man on a Keyboard

The strange death of Remain Labour - Brexit died a long time before it was implemented as a little-loved zombie by the Johnson government. Any hope of forming some sort of national agreement...
3 months ago
Francis Sedgemore

Republic of Anglia? - A letter in the Royston Crow… Local fan of national sovereignty Peter Ranson writes of his positive vision of an imagined post-Brexit England, with or wi...
3 months ago
People's War

The Essence of Bundism - By Henryk Erlich. Originally published in Warsaw, 1934. l. The Bund is alive, effective, and engaged in developing an intensive and many-sided activity in ...
4 months ago
radicalarchives

The Sino-Soviet Split as Revisionism versus Global Race War - …the second world conference of Communist parties was held in Moscow in November 1960. Though its proceedings were secret, enough information leaked out a...
4 months ago
Syria Solidarity UK

Westminster Hall debate on the humanitarian situation in Syria - There were some nine thousand words spoken in yesterday’s Westminster Hall debate on the humanitarian situation in Syria, but it seemed hard to find one ...
5 months ago
Judeosphere

2400 Units of Vitamin D a Day for Fibromyalgia - Fibromyalgia, one of the most common joint and muscle diseases, afflicting millions of Americans, is characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, of...
5 months ago
Airforce Amazons

Animation, continuity and change - There has been a lot of animation going on in our house during the pandemic. As one of the partners in Superpower Partners, I have been helping make two ...
6 months ago
RosieBell

Hearing books - If I had been a rich Victorian lady I would have had a paid companion, preferably a good mimic, to read to me. I do love audio books. I am a skimmer and sk...
7 months ago
Malatesta's Blog

Militant Anti-Fascism: 100 Years Of Resistance! - ‘Militant Anti-Fascism: 100 Years Of Resistance’ by M. Testa. https://www.akuk.com/militant-anti-fascism-a-hundred-years-of-resistance.html ‘Potent Primer ...
9 months ago
Bill Weinberg's blog

Iran on edge following death of Sufi leader - Text [image: Gonabadi]The death of 92-year-old Noor-Ali Tabandeh, also known as Majzoub Ali Shah, leader of Iran's Gonabadi Sufi order, prompted the regi...
1 year ago
Paul Canning

How Labour got off lightly: some notes - Here is my piece for CapX followed by some notes on issues I didn't have the space to expand on, particularly the last two of the three questions I land...
1 year ago
London Masala and Chips

Eltham's General Election 2019 Hustings - Brexit and the NHS dominated the debate at the election hustings which took place last night with all five candidates for the Eltham constituency in the 12...
1 year ago
IWCA national website

Poor French people: legitimate targets - While Western liberal opinion has wrung its hands over authoritarian measures deployed against protestors in Hong Kong and Moscow, less attention has been ...
1 year ago
Twll Dun on Medium

“Jeremy is not an antisemite” - “Jeremy is not an antisemite” One of yesterday’s defence lines against Panorama from the LOTO outriders was that “Jeremy is not an antisemite”. You saw, ...
1 year ago
Jeff Weintraub

European Elections 2019: A Preview of Europe’s New Political Order? (Andy Markovits & Zack Blumberg) - How should we interpret the results of last week's European Parliament elections? In this hot-take assessment, my friend *Andy Markovits*, a prominent sch...
1 year ago
Marlon Solomon

Luciana Berger and The Two Minutes Hate - A Jewish female Labour MP has been hounded out of the Labour Party by antisemites, the records will show that, and in my view it will take a generation to ...
1 year ago
Nick Cohen: Writing from London

Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...
2 years ago
The Gerasites | Pro-Democracy; Anti-Totalitarianism.

Para Los Muchos, No Los Pocos – Why The Left Should Unite Behind Juan Guaidó - By Gray Sargeant The decision by segments of the western Left to support Nicolás Maduro’s election rigging, human rights abusing government in Venezuela on...
2 years ago
Shit Show

DSA Must Reject Imperial Rhetoric on Syria - RL Stephens has posted his position on how the DSA should respond to the war in Syria, http://www.dsausa.org/npc_debate The use of the word "debate", I s...
2 years ago
Stories by April Rosenblum on Medium

How to Split the Sea: Antisemitism and Social Change - From *Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justic*e*; *edited by Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, and Margie Klein (Jewish Lights, 2007). It’s very...
2 years ago
Shiraz Socialist

Shiraz is on the move - Voltaire’s Priest here, after a brief 7-year lacuna! Following a few technical difficulties, Shiraz Socialist is now located at this address: https://shira...
3 years ago
Anonymous Mugwump

Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...
3 years ago
The Rambling Infidel

For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...
3 years ago
Poumista

Libertarian socialist resources - This is a list of external links from the Wikipedia article on libertarian socialism, which is currently being trimmed so these are mostly getting deleted....
3 years ago
gracchipolitic

Mobilise the Millennials! Corbyn and the 2017 General Election - This was published on the 7th of June (a day before the General election) on http://www.irritatedmillennials.com What was thought to be an easy victory The...
3 years ago
Peter Risdon

Before he went mad, of course - [image: Post to Twitter]
3 years ago
Under the Ocular Tree

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
4 years ago
red star commando

Rojava and the Iron law of nationalism - Amid the horror of the Syrian civil war/ revolution it seemed that there was one shining beacon of hope; in the far North Kurdish militants inspired by the...
4 years ago
Adam Holland

Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses US Intelligence Agencies of Interference in Presidential Election - The classic allegorical definition for chutzpah asks that we imagine someone who murders both parents then begs for mercy as an orphan. Today, the Russian ...
4 years ago
Martin In The Margins

Change of address - Martin In The Margins now has a new home. This site will remain open as an archive. The new Martin In The Margins can be found here.
4 years ago
CAFÉ TURCO

Focusing on the present, working for a better future for all in Bosnia-Herzegovina - I am posting this today, almost one year later than I promised čika Idris that I would disseminate online the Hujdurović brothers’s Open ...
4 years ago
the sad red earth

The Firing of Melissa Click - This is where the faculty case against firing Melissa Click, otherwise correct in every respect, falls apart: But no one on the campus filed a complaint ag...
5 years ago
Entdinglichung

Jordi Savall: Hommage à la Syrie - Neither Daesh, nor Assad, nor other Jihadists!
5 years ago
The Barbarian

Violence erupts as Action Palestine targets KCL Israel Society - This evening violence erupted when Kings College London’s (KCL) Action Palestine student group stormed an event organised by KCL Israel Society and LSE I...
5 years ago
GAUCHE

INTERNATIONALISM -
5 years ago
Greens Engage

Caroline Lucas resigns from the Stop the War Coalition - Unless I’ve missed something, Stop the War Coalition hasn’t changed. What has changed is that Stop the War Coalition is suddenly getting scrutiny due an or...
5 years ago
disillusioned marxist

Fucking a pig, fucking the country - By now you must have heard the allegations concerning David Cameron in the so called ‘Piggate’ scandal. I can’t say I’m surprised at all at this event and ...
5 years ago
Adloyada

The Wisdom of Elizabeth I on Jeremy Corbyn - It's a long time since we've had an article from any columnist providing quite such a superb, albeit unintentional, exemplification as did Yasmin Alibihai-...
5 years ago
Terry Glavin | CHRONICLES

Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...
5 years ago
Politics ad Infinitum | Politics in contemporary Britain

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5 years ago
Anti-German Translation

Robert Wistrich on Jews and the left - I don’t really agree with his line of analysis, but just saw that the introduction of the late Robert S Wistrich’s important From Ambivalence to Betrayal: ...
5 years ago
But, I am a Liberal!

Closing a Door, Opening Another - This blog has been in operation for nearly 10 years, which is much longer than I could have imagined it going when I first started. I feel now is a fine t...
5 years ago
yourfriendinthenorth

Hot shots, part deux - Well, that was actually rather good, wasn't it? After the last televised debate I was ready to call for this format of electioneering to be binned and nev...
6 years ago
Terry Glavin

NEW DIGS. - I've absconded to Wordpress. I've reverted, abdicated, and capitulated to Wordpress. I've hit the road, Jack, and I won't be around here no more, no more, ...
6 years ago
Soupy One

Remember Rev. Stephen Sizer’s Racism. - Rev. Stephen Sizer is no novice in terms of racism. Engage 2006: The Church is Moral; The People in the Shadows Are Not My coverage, going back years. The ...
6 years ago
New Politics Review

The shifting world system - Here is a very interesting piece by World Systems Theory guru Immanuel Wallerstein on Putin’s politics in a multi-polar world.Filed under: Resource wars, R...
6 years ago
twlldunyrpobsais

Look - I’m not saying that if a Tottenham fan comes in and shoots you in the face, you deserve it. But you made fun of Ossie Ardiles whilst wearing an Arsenal shi...
6 years ago
Bob's Beats

New UK hip hop - I am planning an official relaunch of this blog soon, so anyone who wants to contribute please give me a shout. In the meantime, here’s some great contempo...
6 years ago
el desterrado

The beat goes on - In the NYT: Decades Later, the Clave Beat Goes on for Latin Jazz and Jewish Musicians Harvito and His Latin Rhythms, in a photo made in the winter of 195...
6 years ago
The New Centrist

J-Street Should Have Known When to Say When - Do you remember those beer advertisements telling viewers to “know when to say when”? If not, the basic message was, know when you have had enough and stop...
6 years ago
Citizen Sane

BBC bias - Subject of the day on Twitter (at least on many of the accounts that I follow and interact with) was BBC bias. Not accusations of institutional leftist bia...
7 years ago
The Magpie's Nest

- *Syria: The Road to Geneva – and back again* The suspense over the holding of the Geneva II Conference on Syria appeared to have finally ended on 18 Januar...
7 years ago
Lefty Tosser

Zizek on "liberal democratic freedom" and its inherent limitations - Yes, more Zizek, but this paragraph from a new essay in the London Review of Books underlies a key point in modern democratic socialist theory: Only a poli...
7 years ago
P U L S E

Activist Trip to Liberated Syria - Highlights from the trip organized by SAC, where a group of young activists visited parts of liberated Syria in December 2012 to deliver aid and form rela...
8 years ago
The view from Nunhead Station

March to save Lewisham Hospital! - OK this isn’t a political blog. Well, I suppose it is, because its about cities and peopel living in cities and what could be more political than that? But...
8 years ago
communism

Compulsive Behavior - Compulsive Behavior by Sabine Nuss Originally published in German in the daily newspaper neues deutschland The Deutsche Theater in Berlin recently celebrat...
8 years ago
Occupy the Crisis

Anti-Debt Struggles, Occupy and the State: A reply to Maisano - In a new Jacobin article, Chris Maisano takes issue with the way Occupy is supposedly approaching the issue of consumer debt. He writes: As Doug Henwood po...
8 years ago
ignoblus, for the moment

On being critical as an ally - Returning to this interview of Abu Marzook: As for the Protocols, “The Zionists wrote it, and they said, ‘No, we didn’t.‘ [It’s] linked to Zionists,” he sa...
8 years ago
1947/1948

Indian stories - From Point of No Return: Here are various stories about Jews in and from India which Point of No Return readers have brought to my attention: Brivdaker in ...
8 years ago
Tales of an Amateur Contrarian

Luke's book review, prologue. - Given all the spare time I have on my hands and the general lack of intellectual stimulation that occurs in my life, I have decided to review a book (or mo...
8 years ago
Weggis

Mossad use animals as Weapons - Claim - Our man on the spot in Gaza, Bruce Barmalotti of the SPSC, reports that post event interrogation of a number of Daisys, Seans and Billys recently imported ...
8 years ago
Beating the Fascists

Review: Socialist History Journal - Full text of review from Issue 41 of the Journal of the Socialist History Society Sean Birchall, Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Act...
8 years ago
Raincoat Optimism

Batman may remind us of Burke’s key kernal, but conservative he ain’t - Clearly having trouble with Robert Coville’s conclusions earlier, Anthony Painter seems to only reluctantly suppose that Batman is a rule of law doubting c...
8 years ago
r a d i a t o r

Goodbye wordpress - I haven’t written anything for this for a long time (or anywhere for that matter). Now I have a new site at http://www.gavinbailey.org.uk, so I think I’ll ...
8 years ago
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Critchley: Occupy’s task is to create a location for politics - http://occupythecrisis.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/critchley-occupys-task-is-to-create-a-location-for-politics/
8 years ago
A Cloud In Trousers

Book Sorting - I'm sitting down surrounded by books. Some books I have to reshelve. Some books have to go to my Oxfam book shop to stop me drowning in a sea of books. He...
9 years ago
Anti-illiberal

"What a plonker" in Botley, sorry North Hinksey - Oh dear, oh dear! The *Oxford Mail*'s Insider column reports (15 December 2011): THE Insider knows only too well that council meetings can go on a bit. But...
9 years ago
Isca Stieglitz's blog

'Wide angled lens' - This post was a comment on another bloggers post; I thought I'd share it as a blog piece. There are countless democracies, groups, organisations etc. acr...
9 years ago
Resonance

Internships and the New Spirit of Capitalism - Review Article: Intern Nation, Ross Perlin, 2011. It is clear that the economy has changed dramatically since the 1960s. “Flexibility,” “creativity” and “e...
9 years ago
Facing the War

Historical parallel? - [from David Dallin, “The Outbreak of the Civil War,” chapter 7 in The Mensheviks: from the Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War, ed. Leopold H. Haims...
9 years ago
Someday I Will Treat You Good

Five for Friday - Band site here. More about the band here. Band website here. Artist Myspace “The only way to change things is to shoot the men who arrange things.” Website...
10 years ago
Carnival of Socialism

New Carnival out at Harpy Marx - Well, I say new, it's a few days old and I only just remembered to link to it here - sorry everyone!
10 years ago
The Social Republic

Yes, Mr Gove, please can we have this fucker mess about with our History syllabi - What makes a good historian? A good memory? A nice style of prose? Ruthless self-promotion and a pathological need to be seen as upsetting applecarts? A...
10 years ago
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Blog back - After a few months of blogging holiday this blog is back. Obviously the focus will change, we’re not anymore in electoral period, and thanks for that. Ther...
10 years ago
אומשלאָף

ממשותדיק - חבֿרה, איך אַרבעט איצט אױף אַ זשורנאַל. טאָמער איר האָט עפּעס צוצוגעבן זאָלט איר שיקן מיר אַן אָנזאָג. ס'װעט הײסן "ממשותדיק" און ס'װעט האָבן אי א...
11 years ago
The Euston Manifesto

Conspiracy Theory Round-Up - After delivering a speech at the “General Conference for the Support of Al-Quds”, Mahathir Mohamad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia shared his suspic...
11 years ago
Left Luggage

Left Luggage: More time for politics - Realising it has been comfortably over a month since our last post, we need to issue our apologies to any readers who have been watching Left Luggage for u...
11 years ago
Discordian Communism

On WWII revisionism - >>It is of course true that millions of other people lost their lives in this conflict, often in unprecedentedly horrible ways, and that new tyrannies were...
11 years ago
A neo-Jacobin

Environmental correctness - a new religion? - *I would call myself a secularist, who is quite happy to tolerate the existence of all the other various religious denominations – even the relatively new...
12 years ago
Morning fire

Bad News, Good News and Reading Material - Bad news. Assassination of Iraqi writer Kamil Shayya Abdallah Unknown gunmen assassinated the Iraqi writer Kamil Shayya Abdallah, adviser to the minister...
12 years ago
beer and communism

Semiotexte on Autonomia scanned - Generation online has posted the entirety of its issue devoted to the Italian autonomist group Autonomia and the Italian events of the 1970s. The scans are...
13 years ago
"anti-german" for dummies

ENGAGE -challenging contemporary antisemitism - “Engage challenges contemporary antisemitism. Contemporary antisemitism nearly always appears using the language of anti-Zionism. ‚Anti-racist‘ anti-Zionis...
13 years ago
Never Got Used To It

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