Another secularist rant from Nick Cohen In today’s Observer, Nick Cohen rallies to the defence of Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who published a book immediately following the Madrid… Continue reading “Another secularist rant from Nick Cohen”…
Antisemitism and the Brick Lane mural: A retrospective assessment It’s ten years since the creation, and rapid obliteration, of a now infamous mural off Brick Lane in East London.… Continue reading “Antisemitism and the Brick Lane mural: A retrospective assessment”…
Churchill and Tonypandy: Did he really shoot down striking miners? The controversy over Tariq Ali’s book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes stirred renewed interest among the left in Churchill… Continue reading “Churchill and Tonypandy: Did he really shoot down striking miners?”…
Has Zelensky sold off Ukraine’s agriculture to US multinationals? According to a story doing the rounds on social media, Volodymyr Zelensky has sold 17 million hectares of his country’s… Continue reading “Has Zelensky sold off Ukraine’s agriculture to US multinationals?”…
Is Stepan Bandera’s birthday celebrated as a national holiday in Ukraine? Every new year’s day far-right nationalists in Ukraine hold a torchlight march in Kiev to mark the birthday of their… Continue reading “Is Stepan Bandera’s birthday celebrated as a national holiday in Ukraine?”…
More disinformation on Ukraine: How fake news about a Shukhevych stamp went viral This image, which depicts a Ukrainian stamp marking the 30 June birthday of notorious World War 2 Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych,… Continue reading “More disinformation on Ukraine: How fake news about a Shukhevych stamp went viral”…
Media coverage of fascism in Ukraine: Who’s to blame for ‘disinformation’? For all its dodgy Cold War origins, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty once had a good record of exposing the role… Continue reading “Media coverage of fascism in Ukraine: Who’s to blame for ‘disinformation’?”…
Fascists in defence of ‘democratic values’? The whitewashing of the Ukrainian far right continues With the Azov regiment having finally accepted defeat and surrendered the Avostal steel plant to Putin’s forces, abandoning the last… Continue reading “Fascists in defence of ‘democratic values’? The whitewashing of the Ukrainian far right continues”…
Confusion over the Ukrainian far right: Billy Bragg and the Banderite band There was a time when the mainstream media were prepared to report accurately and in some detail on the disturbing… Continue reading “Confusion over the Ukrainian far right: Billy Bragg and the Banderite band”…
Ukraine and the Bandera cult After pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was brought down in 2014 by the Maidan protest movement, in which a decisive part… Continue reading “Ukraine and the Bandera cult”…