Posts by Tony Greenstein
Not to be Missed – The Forde Report – Out At Last
The Forde Report and the Lessons of the Corbyn Years TONIGHT – WEBINAR 6 pm Register here or https://tinyurl.com/mv89b52s This is an extremely last minute response to the Forde Report which has just been issued, all 138 pages of it by the Labour Party after it ran out of excuses for delaying it any further. The Report…
Read MoreWinston Churchill – a Mass Murderer whose Good Fortune was in waging war against an even Greater Murderer
Decolonising Dunkirk – Genocidal White Supremacists at War with Each Other One of the things that stuck with me since living in Wales as a child was the hostility amongst Welsh workers to Churchill as a result of his sending the troops and police into the valleys to help the coal owners defeat the striking…
Read MoreThe Hypocrisy of Tory MPs Who Removed Boris Johnson – They Talk About Tax Cuts But Not About The Cost Of Living Crisis or Fuel Bills
It wasn’t lying or support for a sexual predator that caused Boris’s downfall but his inability to deliver a Tory victory It’s not often that I get a prediction wrong. In my blog on June 7 I wrote that ‘It is Doubtful Whether Johnson Will Survive to the End of June’. I was one week out and he…
Read MoreOpen Letter to BBC Chairman, Richard Sharp, on Why I Will Not Pay a License Fee which funds a NATO propaganda station
If Goebbels were alive today he would be proud of how the BBC’s Ros Atkins has sanitised the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion It never ceases to amaze me that the left has never made an issue of the BBC license fee, which is the most regressive of all taxes. It currently stands at £159. However rich or however poor…
Read MoreOn Sunday July 10th I shall be doing a sponsored walk for East Sussex Freedom From Torture – I ask for your support
Last year I raised £1,132 for the victims of torture please help me raise more this year Cuckmere Haven in East Sussex with the Seven Sisters in the background (Image: Adam Last year I raised £1,132 for East Sussex Freedom from Torture. Please help me raise the same or more this year. Freedom from Torture is…
Read MoreSt James Tavern, Brighton Staff On Strike Against Slave Labour Conditions
We are witnessing the biggest strike wave in over 30 years as workers say they have had enough of neo-liberal capitalism Today and next Saturday there is a strike at the St James Tavern in Brighton. There will be a picket next Saturday at 4 pm. Driving to the picket I turned into Madeira Place…
Read MoreCan’t Pay, Won’t Bloody Pay! – Heating & Eating are a Right Not a Privilege
Noone Should be Forced to Choose Between Warmth and Food and No one Should Die Because They Can’t Afford It Registration Link https://tinyurl.com/3hvbhjm9 The Socialist Labour Network is launching a national Can’t Pay Won’t Pay campaign with a public meeting this Friday at 6.30 p.m. Speakers include Tommy Sheridan, the former Scottish Socialist MSP, Paula Peters of Disabled People Against the…
Read MoreHelen Aksentijevic interviews veteran anti-Zionist Moshe Machover, one of the founders of Matzpen, the Socialist Organisation in Israel
Machover looks back on life since his childhood under the Palestine Mandate and describes both his own family and political background There are not many people who can justly be described as legends in their own lifetime but Moshe Machover is one such person. An indefatigable optimist he was the ‘one who got away’. Targeted…
Read MoreIsrael’s Lies and Deceptions over the Assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh are not Fooling Anyone
First CNN and then the Washington Post have conducted investigations which contradict Israel’s ‘explanation’ that she was killed by a Palestinian gunman Israel has conducted extra-judicial executions throughout the Occupation of Palestine and it has never hesitated to murder its political opponents, be they in Palestine or, as in the case of Ghassan Kanfani, in…
Read MoreMay 29 was Jerusalem Day – Israelis celebrated by chanting ‘Death to the Arabs’ and Physically Attacking Them – BBC’s Yolande Knell described it as ‘really jubilant, festive, it feels like a party.’
According to Ha’aretz ‘Dozens of Jerusalem Day Videos Showed Jews Beating Palestinians’ – yet the BBC saw nothing Every year Israel ‘celebrates’ the capture of Arab East Jerusalem with Jerusalem Day including Flag March. Previous years have seen thousands of settlers chanting ‘Death to the Arabs ‘May Your Villages Burn’. This year was no exception. Despite this Israeli Labor…
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