Journalism

Finally, here are links to some of the old pieces from my blog:

April 2008
New page: Disaster averted? GMB v Allen
New page: Is human rights law relevant in combating poverty and injustice?
March 2007
New page: On the definition of anti-fascism                                    
Updates to The Ambridge Socialist                                           
New page: Louisa Dempsey                                               
Link: ISO Zimbabwe                                           
New page: Football, best watched or heard?                             
New page: CLR James, The Black Jacobins                                       
New page: War minus the shooting?           
Updates to The Ambridge Socialist              
Link: Very deeply dyed in Black reviewed                        
New page: CLR James and the West Indies' hegemony   
New page: CLR James' Beyond a Boundary                                    
Link: Keith Flett, Chartism After 1848 reviewed                               
Updates to The Ambridge Socialist                                             
Updates to The Ambridge Socialist                                             
New page: Nigel Harris, The Terrorist reviewed                           

February 2007
Reviews of my book When we Touched the sky and responses here  
More on Tom Mann and the CPGB                                              
New page: The Ambridge Socialist                                                  
Spanish edition of Trotsky now available                                        
New page: Raph Samuel                                                               

January 2007
New page: What does one want?                                           
More on Green reps                                                                       
More on Engage and the Alliance for Workers' Liberty                       
Reviews added to When we Touched the Sky                                               
New page: EP Thompson and Leon Trotsky                  
New page: Walden 1647 programme                               

December 2006
New page: Commemoration planned                                        
New page: Ten questions on the BNP and the far right      
New page: Who was Tony Cliff?         
New page: Who was Leon Trotsky?                                                   
New page: Who was Vladimir Lenin?                             
New page: Who was Rosa Luxemburg                        
New page: Who was Frederick Engels?                               
New page: Who was Karl Marx?                                 
New page: You can't get me                                                             
New page: Caledonian CCTV ing                                           

November 2006
New page: The law is an Eeyeore                                                        
New page: Ken Weller and the CP historians                                         
New page: Trouble at Edge Hill                                                     
New page: Green reps                                                        
New page: Caledonia                                          
New page: Aishah Azmi and the law prohibiting discrimination                
New page: blog from 1 July 05 to 25 June 06                                  
New page: The Congo: Plunder and Resistance                             
Reviews added to: When we Touched the Sky                                 

June 2006
Foreigners cheat here
So how left-wing was Tony Blair? here
Refugee benefit gig here
T and T here
120 Refugee Detainees on Hunger Strike here
The World Cup a week in here
Ethnic minority populations and the labour market here
Why the boycott motion passed here

May 2006
What's so wrong with supporting Trinidad and Tobago? here
More memories from the 1970s here
More on the local elections here
Calling any readers in Rome Berlin or Paris here
Could this Liverpool team win the League? here
More on the BNP results here
Latest from Egypt here
The BNP anti-fascism and why I wrote my book here
First thoughts on the BNP and the elections here
The future is urban here
When the judges went on strike here
Bad history: Life in the United Kingdom here

April 2006
Memories from the ANL in Manchester here
Not all Essex history is so radical here
Punk etymology here
How to write about migration here
Tracing Rosita Forbes here
Who needs to find a millionaire? (cont./d) here
Radical history of Essex here
More on Frank Ellis here
Some recent cases in race discrimination law here
A new mass movement for migrant rights here
Frank Ellis: two notes of caution here 
The Ellis issues exported here
More Torr/Renton family history here
More on Frank Ellis and free speech here
Redfearn v Serco here

March 2006
Frank Ellis and the limits of Free Speech More
Three Liverpool villains here
Bad history: who ended slavery? here. 
'Working-class' fascism here.
Cisse's Liverpool here. 
What I've been reading here.
Fascism and the British Labour Movement here.
On migration here.
On defining fascism here  
Why Liverpool lost here. 
Two books on fascism here. 
Living Marxism spiked online and the RCP here

February 2006
City versus country here
More on Mark Collett Here. 
More on Ashwin Desai here.
Memories of Istanbul here.
Communist Historians revisited here  
Playing in Red here.
The new socialism of fools here. 
Chelsea 2 - Liverpool 0 here.
Why Nick Griffin and Mark Collett won and truth lost here.
On re-signing Robbie Fowler here

January 2006
Tony Lerman and the JC
Boycott Electrolux
How far can Rafa's Liverpool go?
Masssacres in Cairo
'Ragbag' Anthony Glees 
Seventy years since the Jarrow crusade
CLR James and the IS / SWP
Galloway on BB
Sidney Pollard reviewed
The Torrs and the Rentons
Fascism on trial in Leeds
The Countryside Alliance and the postal rule
Glees and the spooks   
Boris Johnson challenged
Eamonn McCann and the Saville report
Marx on Globalisation reviewed
The Return of the Blacklist

December 2005
The British Marxist Historians and 1956
Can Muslims be oppressed?
On reading the Koran
The Left and anti-Muslim racism
A very odd and rather beautiful feeling

November 2005
24th Day of Hunger Strike
Campsfield: 12 years on
On Jewish identity
Seven Zimbabweans now on hunger strike

October 2005
When we touched the Sky
You read it here first
Demise of Lucy's 
Another talk for black history month
Workers against immigration controls
British trade unionists and anti-asylum bills
On being a punch-bag
Black History Month and Further Education
How (not) to negotiate for race equality
13 minutes and 41 seconds remaining
Earthquake in Kashmir
Against Anthony Glees
Some quotes about me
Belfort Bax and Henry Morton Stanley
Victory again
Posh fascist hatemail
Children of the Revolution
Interview with Chris Mullard
Another B52 'socialist'  
And there's another Cowley

September 2005
Blair butchers punk classic
Anti-war demo: link to video
Anti-Semitism Islamophobia and Education
More on Archibald v Fife

September 2005: Dining on Popstar 
Willesden Depot
Dialogue I  
Dialogue II  
Broad Street 1973  
Trafford Park 1989
Birkenhead 1999
York 2000
Genova Libera July 2001
Dream 2003  

August 2005
Gate Gourmet
Memories of Welling
Film: the Anti-Nazi League 
Women feminism and the veil
Zimbabwe
Gilroy
Three articles
Voices against the poor
The Enemy Within  

July 2005
Institutional racism against Muslims
Muslims in Britain
Things can't be so bad after all
Against the backlash
What I'm reading
Two conversations about the new racism
The London bombings
Close Dungavel
Against Live8
Did the anti-war movement have a theory?
Missing Edinburgh