Antisemitism and Populism
The respected Marxist historian and biographer of Stalin and Trotsky Isaac Deutscher gave a lecture on the topic of antisemitism to the World Jewish Congress held in London in September …
Reflection on the results of the 28 April 2019 general elections in Spain
Spain held general elections on April 28 called by the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez. Sánchez had been leading a minority government after the previous prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, …
Reflections on the Gilets Jaunes protests in France
The last issue of the London Review of Books publishes a long article by Jeremy Harding on the gilets jaunes in France entitled Among the Gilets Jaunes. I was very …
Antisemitism, Corbyn and the Labour Party
I have been following with mounting concern the stories in the Guardian over accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party. They felt to me as an unjustified renewed campaign against …
Reflections on a series of Guardian articles
Reading the Guardian recently has brought to my attention the similarities between political events that occur in many different countries and in different parts of the world. I am also …