Eric Lee
Stalin in Clerkenwell Green
This article appears in Solidarity. Feel free to add your comments below. It was a beautiful May morning, one of the first warm and sunny days we’ve had all year. In Clerkenwell Green,...
Strong unions key to preventing another Rana Plaza
The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh has horrified people all over the world. Everyone wants to see something done about us, to ensure that it never happens again. But not everyone agrees on...
Goodbye GoodReads, Hello LibraryThing
I like to keep a record of the books I’ve read, and like millions of others, have found online communities to be a good way of doing this. In recent years, I’ve used two of these –...
North Korea: The British Left struggles to cope
This article appeared in Solidarity. Please feel free to add your comments there. Socialist Worker last week reported on the escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula – but in topsy-turvy world...
Unicode, Drupal, PHP, MySQL: A love story (not)
I have been trying to do something fairly simple: I wanted to write a web page that could render well on a small screen (like a mobile phone) and which would display content from the IUF website....
Hollywood Homophobia: A side effect of economic crisis
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. Please post any comments there. Four years ago, the stars of the successful BBC comedy series “Gavin and Stacey” made the mistake of starring...
Turkey, where dissidents are “terrorists”
This article appeared today in Solidarity. When George W. Bush proclaimed his “War on Terror” more than a decade ago, there was some concern in the USA and its allies that the war might not be...
How are union members using the Internet?
This article appears in Stronger Unions, , a news and comment blog about the UK trade union movement, managed by the TUC. Unions that want to communicate with their members using the new technologies...
Should we boycott Amazon?
This article appears today in Solidarity. Recently, I co-authored a book on online campaigning for trade unions and self-published it using a print-on-demand service called CreateSpace. CreateSpace...
