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No-one likes us we don't care

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Three big compliments, two defences

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Yes it is you Tory scum

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Strangers into Citizens May 4th

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Local/global

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Guca

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Music of the Intifada

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Stangers into Citizens

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Seven spring songs, 2009

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The bleeding of Sri Lanka

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Israel, Jews, Muslims, antisemitism, pro-Hamas leftists, that sort of thing

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Klezmer at the Telegraph

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Marianne Faithfull, Derek Jarman and Lewisham '77

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Human stain

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Terry Glavin, prize winner

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Antisemitism, Holocaust revisionism, Ron Paul and the tea party movement

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Goodbye bland affluence

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Practical solidarity with Israel's Palestinian workers

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The Clowning of Ahmadinejad

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Monday miscellany

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Reading Hannah Arendt in Cafe Crema

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Policing the G20 protests

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The Shylock moment

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Nothing to do with the G20 summit

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No dancing - the 1918/19 influenza epidemic - The flu epidemic of 1918-19 killed millions of people around the world, including over 200,000 in the UK. As with the Covid-19 pandemic there were social d...
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P U L S E

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What we watched last year - Doing the accounts, I come across receipts for films streamed last year. So then I went looking through other places to see what else I’d watched in 2019. ...
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The Centre Left

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Francis Sedgemore

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Bill Weinberg's blog

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Paul Canning

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Syrian Revolution Commentary and Analysis

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Poumista

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Peter Risdon

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Under the Ocular Tree

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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...
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Adam Holland

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3 years ago
Martin In The Margins

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4 years ago
CAFÉ TURCO

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4 years ago
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4 years ago
Entdinglichung

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4 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...
4 years ago
GAUCHE

INTERNATIONALISM -
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The Euston Manifesto

Site update - Updates are still ongoing as of 05Jan16, but all the main pages should now be working.
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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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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...
5 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, ...
5 years ago
Soupy One

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5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 years ago
The Magpie's Nest

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6 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
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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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!
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
10 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...
11 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...
12 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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Thunder and Lightning

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