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Once Again Hoffman is Caught Out by his Lies I first covered this story in April, when a meeting organised by the Universities College Union in support of the Boycott of Israel, at which 2 ANC speakers gave talks, was attacked as anti-Semitic. Chaired by UCU’s Tom Hickey, speakers included legendary ANC figure and ex-Minister…

Feminism in the cause of Imperialism Let no one be in any doubt. Julian Assange has not been arrested for rape or sexual molestation but for not wearing a condom when having sex! Sex by surprise it’s called! And for this Interpol has issued an arrest warrant and a magistrate in Britain has remanded him…

ccvvddrreewwqqaassddffdddddddddfdfdfdfdfdfdfdAs you get older you tend to revisit previous writings. An old article I had forgotten about was a debate with Julia Bard of the Jewish Socialists Group in the pages of Labour Left Briefing of October 1993 re Oslo. People may remember the Oslo Accords when everything was going to be sorted out in…

Tony Greenstein & Terry Gallogly Appear in Wiki Leaks! I was searching for an article on the Guardian website last night in which I had appeared, so I did a search on my name and guess what came up? Yup that’s right. It seems I have made a guest appearance on Wiki Leaks. What makes…

In 2005, the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated. Suspicion fell, rightly or wrongly, on the Syrian state forces in Lebanon. The same forces that both Israel and the US gave a green light to when they entered Lebanon in May 1976 on the side of the Christian President Franjiyeh and the Lebanese Front,…

Met Police Commander Paul Stephenson Lies to Police Authority about the use of HorsesAfter the events of the last couple of weeks, it is clear the Metropolitan and City of London police have not learnt a dam thing about policing demonstrations from the incident in which Ian Tomlinson was murdered by a member of the…

Another Left Campaign Headed for Nowhere? At the unearthly hour of 8 am 9 of us from Brighton Benefits Campaign met at Brighton Station to go to the Coalition of Resistance. We included claimants and workers. The Coalition of Resistance is one of these favourite formats of the SWP and other far-left groups when they…

I took off an hour or so from the Culture of Resistance Conference to go and join the picket at Ahava. After direct action this week by 2 activists, who chained themselves to a concrete block, once again getting arrested for aggravated trespass, the picket was a quiet affair. Arriving at about 12.45 I was…

It has been a thorny problem for Israel’s legislators. How to allow the Jewish National Fund and Jewish towns to reject Arab inhabitants without specifiying ‘Arabs not wanted’. In South Africa and the Deep South of the USA there signs such as ‘Whites Only’, ‘Dogs and Blacks Keep Out’ but this would be somewhat embarrassing…