Two wars over Ukraine
Pacifists and liberals are fond of repeating the old adage that ‘the first casualty of war is the truth.’ In fact, the exact contrary is far closer to the truth: […]
Category Archives: self-determination
Why the “Israel – Apartheid State” analogy is misleading and dangerous
Why then are some supporters of the Palestinian struggle so keen to use the ‘Apartheid State’ designation for Israel? Because the word Apartheid confers on Israel the status of pariah state – to be boycotted, sanctioned etc in the same way that the actual apartheid state was.
The Sahel, the desert, and Tuareg refugees in Burkina Faso
Notes from a visit to West Africa in January 2015. Third in a series of six articles North of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, we entered the Sahel region, the dry plain […]
The bloodletting in Gaza, anti-Semitism, and the politics of denial – a discussion
Among supporters of the Palestinian struggle, I am sure I was not alone in being appalled by the news that the ceasefire talks between the Palestinians and Israel had broken […]
The rise of a New Zealand Empire in the Pacific
Within less than a month of joining the war against Germany in 1914, New Zealand had seized its first colonial conquest from Germany. On August 29 1914 troops from the […]
Trotsky and Ukrainian independence
“The Ukrainian question, which many governments and many “socialists” and even “communists” have tried to forget or to relegate to the deep strongbox of history, has once again been placed […]
A worker at large 