Red flag over St Pancras
PART 1 This is the first part of a study of the political tendency associated with John Lawrence – a…
Author: bobpitt (page 9)
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…
Brownshirts in blazers? The rise of UKIP
With its 16% of the vote in the June Euro-elections the UK Independence Party, previously dismissed as a group of…
Transphobia, free speech and the left
Earlier this month an online Stand Up For Labour Party Democracy rally was organised to build a campaign in solidarity…
Seymour Hersh and massacres — the degeneration of a respected journalist
The celebrated investigative journalist Seymour Hersh appeared on the BBC Daily Politics show on Tuesday, mainly to plug his recently…