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January 30, 2009

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January 30, 2009

Karl Marx to Abraham Lincoln

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January 30, 2009

Greens Engage/Antisemitism real and imagined/Jews and shoes

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January 28, 2009

Victor Borge centenary

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January 27, 2009

Jump

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January 27, 2009

Henry Siegman’s Lies

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January 27, 2009

Remembering

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January 27, 2009

Fascism watch: South London (no.2)

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January 27, 2009

Sense/nonsense

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January 26, 2009

A propos of the BBC's "impartiality"

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January 26, 2009

Antisemitism watch

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January 23, 2009

Follow-up questions

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January 23, 2009

Twelve Fountains of Blood

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January 21, 2009

Wednesday linktastica (mostly music)

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January 21, 2009

Today's Gaza links

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January 21, 2009

Free pussy from Palestine

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January 19, 2009

Bloggery

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January 19, 2009

The war in Gaza and Southern Israel continues in Britain

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January 16, 2009

Pernicious nonsense

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January 16, 2009

Today's links

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January 15, 2009

A break from Gaza: On the buses

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January 14, 2009

And yet more

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January 13, 2009

More links

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January 12, 2009

The war between Israel and Hamas

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January 12, 2009

Anarchism and trade unionism in Venezuela

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January 09, 2009

Weblog Awards 2008

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January 08, 2009

New year welcomes

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January 07, 2009

2008's highs and lows (mainly musical)

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January 07, 2009

Obligatory Celebrity Big Brother post

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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
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...
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...
16 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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Little Atoms Home | Little Atoms

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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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