Malcolm Caldwell, Scottish Marxist academic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) was born in 1931. A lifelong man of the left, he had been the Chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a …
Editors: I enclose an urgent appeal from the Praxis Research and Education Center in Moscow to help ‘Stop Political Terror in Russia’ – written after one of our close collaborators, a human rights lawyer, was murdered in a Moscow street …
Does the two-state solution remain viable after the conflict in Gaza, and if so what are the obstacles to its realisation? We posed these questions to a range of writers. Michael Walzer argues that two states is in bad shape, …
Bad times can clarify things. Take today’s economic crisis. So far, it’s put millions of people into unemployment lines, forced almost as many out of their homes, and, before all is said and done, might leave several destabilised nations in …
Editor’s Note: We asked a range of writers whether the two-state solution was viable after the recent conflict in Gaza, and if so what they saw as the obstacles to its realisation.
I am not just a woman who was born in a Muslim family; I am also a British citizen who loves her country and stands behind our soldiers who lose their limbs and lives fighting Jihadists and Islamists. I grew …
On 20 October 2006, the website of the Canadian weekly current affairs magazine Maclean’s featured an article entitled ‘The future belongs to Islam,’ excerpted from the conservative polemicist Mark Steyn’s book America Alone: The End of the World as We …
Fifteen years after the historic Oslo accords, Israel finds itself isolated as never before in the international labour movement.
Of all the challenges facing civilisation in the aftermath of colonialism, African development is one of the greatest. This populous continent, with its great cultural richness and variety remains grossly underdeveloped, besot by corrupt and authoritarian regimes, and ravaged by …
As an ex-member of the Militant Tendency I wanted to bring down the State that most people supported. I’m glad the likes of me … were prevented from doing so … Thank you Special Branch. (Stephen Brent, Chichester, on the …
Editors: Individuals like Martin Shaw (‘Antisemitism and the Boycott: An Exchange,’ Democratiya 14) always want to make me scratch my head in wonderment. One assumes that as a Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, he …
KABUL – Among the many things that are likely to surprise a visitor to this city is the Dari version of Marilyn Manson’s Personal Jesus that’s playing on the radio these days. There is also the exuberant courtesy, solicitousness and …
“What’s the alternative?” Condoleeza Rice The Central Bank has declared a moratorium on new sitting rooms and laughter, all relics of the bygone bourgeois age known as the week before last. The dog starts to hum something by Woody Guthrie. …
It was August, 1993 and President Clinton was working the Democratic majority in Congress to gather the votes for his first budget plan. For a President trying to change the direction of federal policy, as he was after 12 years …
Democrats need to spell out clearly the convictions that underlie their vision of American leadership in the post-9/11 world. Fortunately, in President-elect Barack Obama they have a supremely articulate messenger who is intellectually up to the task.
