Marcus Papadopoulos and the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn
Marcus Papadopoulos may not exactly be a household name, but last week he had his 15 minutes of fame when…
Month: March 2021
How do you solve a problem like Mike Sivier?
Last month the Labour Party’s National Constitutional Committee finally got round to dealing with the disciplinary charges against Mike Sivier,…
Qaradawi is welcome
Ever since Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi was welcomed to London’s City Hall by Ken Livingstone last July, Peter Tatchell and the…
Red flag over St Pancras
PART 1 This is the first part of a study of the political tendency associated with John Lawrence – a…
The disgraceful expulsion of Moshé Machover from the Labour Party
The veteran Jewish socialist Moshé Machover has been expelled from the Labour Party. This week he received a letter from…
The Canary and conspiracies (pt 2) — the case of Keir’s campaign funding
Back in 2017 I wrote a piece titled “The Canary and conspiracies — the case of the Khan Sheikhoun chemical…
The Canary and conspiracies — the case of the Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack
To the outrage of the rightwing press, the panel of last Thursday’s edition of BBC Question Time included Kerry-Anne Mendoza,…
Marxism and popular fronts
This is an edited transcript of a talk given to the Communist University in London in August 2003. It was…
‘George just means Jew. Vile Jew’ — How David Baddiel smeared George Galloway
George Galloway provoked a Twitterstorm last week with an intemperate and rather ill-judged attack on David Baddiel, in which he…
Destroying party democracy: The key to Blairism’s future
Recently a glossy new brochure from Millbank plopped through the letterboxes of Labour Party branch secretaries. Entitled 21st Century Party…