When Marx and Engels penned the Communist Manifesto in 1848, Europe was in the midst of revolutionary change. The opening line of the Manifesto is “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of [...]
My op-ed for The Toronto Star on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead while standing on the balcony of the [...]
May 4th 1992. Los Angeles was burning and Public Enemy’s Shut ‘Em Down sat atop the rap singles chart, its opening lyrics delivered in Chuck D’s booming baritone: “I testified/my mama [...]
The following piece was published back in 2008 in the November/December issue of Canadian Dimension magazine. Socrates died last Saturday. He was one of the greatest footballers of his [...]
Some musings on Libya from my Politics as Usual blog for POUND magazine (www.poundmag.com). Muammar Gaddafi is dead. Forty years of dictatorship has come to an end. Hundreds of political [...]
Here’s my latest Politics As Usual blogpost for POUND. More on Occupy Wall Street to come… I doubted them; I really did. After so muted a reaction to the housing foreclosures, Wall [...]
Thanks to host Geoff Langhorne for inviting me on DisRespect Radio to discuss the UK riots. We had a great conversation that covered the sources of urban unrest and the prospects for future riots [...]
Some of the best commentary on the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: Rober Fisk on the historical context of the uprisings and the future of Arab-Israeli relations: [...]
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-a-new-truth-dawns-on-the-arab-world-2194488.html
