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October 20, 2013

I miss you Norm

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For Norm

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Brother Outsider

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September 12, 2010

A tourist on the left

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September 07, 2010

The cutting edge

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August 24, 2010

Triangulating Bobism 1: Harryism and indecency

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January 09, 2010

Miscellany

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December 21, 2009

How would you like it if I called you bilingual?

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February 25, 2009

Liberal fascism continued

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January 27, 2009

Sense/nonsense

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September 09, 2008

Decentiya

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Decentism and defectors, lumpen and otherwise

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Paine today: decentism redux

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Decentism: Burke and Paine again

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Revisiting between Burke and Paine in the twenty-first century

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Between Burke and Paine in the twenty-first century

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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...
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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...
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9 years ago
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Poumista

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9 years ago
Entdinglichung

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The Barbarian

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9 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.
9 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

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9 years ago
Adloyada

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10 years ago
Adam Holland

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10 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...
10 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: ...
10 years ago
But, I am a Liberal!

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10 years ago
yourfriendinthenorth

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10 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, ...
10 years ago
Soupy One

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10 years ago
New Politics Review

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10 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...
10 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

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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...
11 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...
11 years ago
The New Centrist

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11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
12 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...
12 years ago
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Compulsive Behavior - Compulsive Behavior by Sabine Nuss Originally published in German in the daily newspaper neues deutschland The Deutsche Theater in Berlin recently celebrat...
12 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...
12 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...
13 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 ...
13 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/
13 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...
13 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...
14 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!
14 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...
14 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...
14 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...
15 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...
15 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...
16 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...
16 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...
16 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...
17 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...
18 years ago
Never Got Used To It

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MatBlog

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Thunder and Lightning

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Winston Pickett's blog

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The Contentious Centrist

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The Meretz USA Blog

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fromthebrainofanantifascist

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Shift Magazine

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Save Catford

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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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