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Shiraz Socialist (Second Run)

Palme Dutt, 50 years on: the life and times of a Stalinist “intellectual” - Rajani Palme Dutt (pictured above), a founder of the British Communist Party who remained a leading member for over 40 years, died fifty years ago on 20 De...
1 day ago
aNtiDoTe Zine

Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian - Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez a...
2 days ago
Mystical Politics

"This is the place of horrors": 150,000 missing Syrians; mass graves show the worst abuses "since the Nazis" - "This is the place of horrors" NBC reports today: Syrian mass graves show the worst abuses 'since the Nazis,' top prosecutor says Mass graves uncovered in...
3 days ago
Spencer Sunshine

Portland’s Role in Neo-Nazi Terrorism: Book Talk with Spencer Sunshine and Steve Wasserstrom - The talk I gave in November with Steve Wasserstrom at OJMCHE, “Portland’s Role in Neo-Nazi Terrorism,” is now online if you missed it! Definitely one of my...
3 days ago
Syria Solidarity UK

Syria wakes up from its Assadist nightmare - *By Amr Salahi* *Photo by Salwa Amor* Never in our wildest dreams would we have imagined seeing what we saw in Syria this Friday. The joyous scenes in Da...
4 days ago
Eric Lee

Review: Dead Head, by C.J. Skuse - If you’re looking for a book about Grateful Dead fans, this is not it. But if you want to continue following the increasingly strange adventures of the fem...
6 days ago
History is made at night

Trackers and Breakbeats: Brain Records exhibition - 'Trackers and Breakbeats: Celebrating Brain Records’ Underground Revolution' was an exhibition at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich...
1 week ago
New Jewish Resistance

Syria: after the fall of the regime - As Syrian rebels advanced on Damascus in a surprise lightning offensive, the Rojava Kurds seized territory from the Bashar Assad regime, and the Druze to...
1 week ago
Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism

Jon Pike - Jon Pike, one of the key founders of this website and network, has been made a professor. Huge congratulations to Jon. He is the real thing, and has been f...
4 weeks ago
Max Dunbar

Bad Day for a Wedding - I’ve written before that digital communication dealt a blow to conventional thriller writing. The example I used was the murder mystery set in a remote loc...
4 weeks ago
the sad red earth

Mơ thấy trẻ con là điềm báo gì, nên đánh số nào - Trẻ con ngây thơ, hồn nhiên, trong sáng. Vui chơi với trẻ, nói cười cùng bé, bạn sẽ thấy tâm hồn mình trẻ lại. Vậy, mơ thấy trẻ con mang ý nghĩa gì, có p...
4 weeks ago
Jewish Labor Committee

Join us at our Annual Human Rights Awards Gala! - To RSVP, click on invitation, above, or here We are thrilled to announce that House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will be joining us at tomorrow’s Jewi...
5 weeks ago
The Syrian Intifada

Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on October 26, 2024 Read the article over at Substack.
1 month ago
Beating the Fascists

Review of “How to stop fascism” - “How to Stop Fascism“ is an insightful and timely book that explores the dangerous resurgence of fascism in modern society. Written for activists, citizens...
2 months ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan

Sacred Time and Liminal Space: Ashkenazi Folk Magic at the Threshold - New Class Starts September 9, 2024 - I'm so pleased to say that the Yiddish Book Center has asked me to teach a new class this fall: *Sacred Time and Liminal Space: Ashkenazi Folk Magic at t...
3 months ago
Pandaemonium

WRESTLING WITH AMERICA’S DEMONS – AND HIS OWN - This essay, on the significance of James Baldwin, was published in the Observer on 28 July 2024 under the headline “James Baldwin taught us that identities...
4 months ago
threewayfight

New book by D.Z. Shaw, Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique and the Three Way Fight - In addition to the co-published PM Press and Kersplebedeb book, *Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism*, we are excited to see this new...
7 months ago
Greater Surbiton

British academia and student ‘sex work’ – a story of an embarrassing secret - Review of Ron Roberts, Capitalism on Campus: Sex Work, Academic Freedom and the Market, Zero Books, Portland, 2018 Many or most people working in academia ...
1 year ago
Syrian Revolution Commentary and Analysis

Ukraine myths used to justify Putin’s terror - Myths concocted by Putin shills, but widely believed even by well-intentioned peace activists, anti-imperialists and fence-sitters by Michael Karadjis Belo...
1 year ago
Joey Ayoub

What if We Cancel the Apocalypse? - How the aesthetic, utopian yet pragmatic movement of Solarpunk reimagines a future without a climate catastrophe
2 years ago
Fat Man on a Keyboard

Jackanory - I've been listening to a BBC radio series by Gabriel Gatehouse, *The Coming Storm*, about the origins of the QAnon conspiracy theory. It's riveting, supe...
2 years ago
Hummus For Thought

Reminder: The newsletter is migrating - Hey everyone, This is a reminder that the newsletter you’ve all come to love is migrating to another website. If you’ve enjoyed it so far, no worries, you ...
3 years 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 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years ago
The Centre Left

We like you, Lisa Nandy, so why are you throwing women under a bus? - [image: Image result for lisa nandy images]Current Labour leadership campaign status: both cautiously encouraging, and flat-out disappointing. Encouragin...
4 years ago
People's War

A Socialist Case for Biden: What Jacobin and the New York Times Both Don’t Get - By Jason Hicks. Republished with permission. Prefatory note: I’m sharing a draft because I need to turn to other projects for now, and though it’s lacking ...
4 years 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...
4 years ago
London Masala and Chips

Splitters, Remainers, Leavers and Brexit fatigue: All eyes on Eltham - A confluence of unique events has brought us a snap winter election to take place on 12 December 2019. Since the 2019 election was declared at the end of O...
5 years ago
Leila's blog | a blog on popular struggles, human rights and social justice from an anti-authoritarian perspective

Idlib resists - Over the past few days a popular uprising has broken out across Idlib against the hardline Islamist group HTS (formerly Al-Qaeda linked Nusra) which is mil...
5 years ago
radicalarchives

Alexander Berkman: “we kissed the image of the social revolution” - [from a letter to Emma Goldman] “To grasp your hand, to look down for a mute, immortal instant into your soul, and then die at your hands, Beloved, with th...
5 years ago
Paul Canning

Bolivia, democracy and Corbyn: It's not pretty - On Tuesday morning at a quarter to eleven People’s Momentum tweeted out a three raised fist emoji salute to the re-election of Evo Morales in Bolivia in...
5 years 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 ...
5 years ago
Jeff Weintraub

The Mueller Report (with redactions) - Here is a link to a searchable on-line version of the Mueller Report, released (with redactions) on Thursday, April 18, 2019. *Report On The Investigation ...
5 years ago
Malatesta's Blog

It’s Jack Off Time! - Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Fucken Boab! Yet another one for the list and what a little peach this is. Perpetually pubescent neo-Nazi Jack Renshaw has bee...
5 years 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 ...
5 years ago
The Gerasites | Pro-Democracy; Anti-Totalitarianism.

Alarmed by Populism? It’s time to put your money where your mouth is - By James Patterson This is an unashamed plug for a new political project, and an appeal for donations. Many think we now live in an age of extremes. Populi...
6 years ago
Airforce Amazons

Why is the The Galway Advertiser promoting atrocity denial? - Today's Galway Advertiser is plugging a talk by Peter Ford. Peter Ford is a director of a lobby group run by the brother in law of Bashar al-Assad, Syria'...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
Shiraz Socialist

Announcement from Shiraz HQ - Due to some technical difficulties (and the need for a seasonal break), there will be no posts at Shiraz Socialist until early January 2018, when normal se...
6 years ago
Marlon Solomon

Is David Icke Britain’s Leading Antisemite? - If David Icke is not Britain’s leading antisemite I am yet to come across anybody else who is preaching the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to thousands of...
7 years ago
The Rambling Infidel

On the Importance of Voting - On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote in t...
7 years ago
Peter Risdon

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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
7 years ago
Twll Dun on Medium

On The Trains Running On Time - On The Trains Running On Time I’ve made clear in previous posts that I’m massively agnostic on the issue of rail nationalisation. This isn’t just the ol...
7 years ago
Anonymous Mugwump

Mein weltanschauung - My friends Ben and Sam have both written posts about which articles and books have influenced their thinking. There’s not a whole world of difference betw...
8 years ago
gracchipolitic

Forming Left Populism! - In 1979 French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard inaugurated the postmodern age with his publication The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. He ...
8 years ago
Martin In The Margins

On the move - This blog will be moving to a new home soon. Watch this space for further information.
8 years ago
Poumista

Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn’t Learn About In History class - For Women’s Day, by Kathleen Harris from Films for Action: Some extracts Nadezhda Krupskaya Many people know Nadezhda Krupskaya simply as Vladimir Lenin’s ...
8 years ago
Entdinglichung

Jordi Savall: Hommage à la Syrie - Neither Daesh, nor Assad, nor other Jihadists!
8 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...
8 years ago
GAUCHE

LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES - Little Atoms, 28 December 2015 A new outro for Moscow Gold? by me and Kevin Davey online here.
8 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...
9 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 ...
9 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-...
9 years ago
Adam Holland

Meet RT's German spokesman: Manuel Ochsenreiter, publisher of the neo-Nazi magazine "Zuerst!" - Manuel Ochsenreiter is not a household name either in the United States nor in his native Germany. He's the editor of Zuerst!, a German news magazine which...
9 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...
9 years ago
Politics ad Infinitum | Politics in contemporary Britain

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9 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: ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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, ...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
red star commando

- Minestrone Bean cassoulet A warm and cheap meal 1 large onion 2 cloves garlic 1 tin butter beans 1 tin red kidney beans 1 tin tomatoes 1 tetra pack tomat...
10 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...
10 years ago
Flesh is Grass

South West Coast Path St Ives to Appledore – camping, food, sights - Early in June we took a walk of about 130 miles along the North Cornwall coast and into West Devon. Our camera packed up after a rainy spell on the coast p...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
CAFÉ TURCO

THE SARAJEVO PROTESTS: my eyewitness account. - This text was originally posted on Greater Surbiton, on 12 February 2014, and subsequently reproduced on Novinar.me. When I returned to Sarajevo in the end...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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/
12 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...
12 years ago
P U L S E

Of Love and Revolutions: A Lesson Un-Planned - by Huma Dar I am reminded of, yet once again, if I ever forgot, occupied with, all over again, a crazy, intense conversation with my students, some weeks a...
12 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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!
13 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
The Euston Manifesto

“What’s the big deal about it?” - For years now, Mick Hartley’s blog has often linked to and summarized journalism that covers the horror and absurdity of life under the North Korean regime...
14 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...
14 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...
15 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...
15 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...
15 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...
16 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...
17 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...
17 years ago
Never Got Used To It

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Thunder and Lightning

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The Contentious Centrist

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Winston Pickett's blog

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Little Atoms Home | Little Atoms

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MatBlog

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Ariachne's broken woof: Sarah Annes Brown's weblog

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The Meretz USA Blog

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fromthebrainofanantifascist

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Save Catford

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Shift Magazine

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