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Feb
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Category Archives: general
Antisemitism: the new McCarthyism
21
Feb
With Joan Ryan the eighth MP to join the Labour breakaway group, and to cite ‘antisemitism’ as a prime reason, the ever reliable Jonathan Cook says: Corbyn, it should be noted, is the first leader of a major British party … Read More »
Yes, it bloody well is about oil!
29
Jan
this post also features in offguardian The best comedians are the cleverest people on the planet. I’m grateful to a BTL comment on OffGuardian, below a piece of mine on Venezuela, for linking to this forty-five minute video. It has … Read More »
Breast cancer, feminism, Israeli warplanes
16
Jan
THIS POST ALSO FEATURES IN OffGuardian I’m critical of identity politics both in its passive form, as theory-lite substitute for class analyses of oppression and exploitation, and in its more active manifestations. Such as when, in 2016, millions of progressives … Read More »
Two prose poems
7
Jan
Brecht is powerful but it’s Michael Rosen who captures our zeitgeist.
How NOT to combat “antisemitism”
6
Jan
Below is a Facebook exchange, I think self explanatory, from a few days ago. Let me say right out I never set eyes on any of its three participants, though last week Ian Jenkins sent a friend request after I’d … Read More »
Three short reads for 2019
2
Jan
Coffee and funny money accountancy writ large … a supremely well penned salute to five heroic contrarians … the wickedly accurate putting straight, by a Presbyterian minister, of all who see in Donald Trump some mystifyingly aberrant wrong turn by … Read More »
Antisemitic verses
17
Dec
The OffGuardian version of my recent post, First they came for the socialists, elicited this below the line exchange: How do you respond to a comment like that? You don’t want to grace it with too considered a response. That … Read More »
First they came for the socialists …
10
Dec
this post also features in offguardian It’s ten to one you read in my title the opener to a much cited quote about Nazi Germany. And two to one that even if you couldn’t identify the author, Pastor Martin Niemöller, … Read More »