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politics comment and polemic

2007 - for more comments go to my blog

• The International Court of Justice: Serbia, Bosnia and Genocide (Open Democracy article)
• The facile politicisation of violence (New Statesman letter, 19 February)
• Genocide: rethinking the concept

2006

• The myth of progressive war
• Israel's degenerate campaign holds a mirror to the West's own wars
• Anti-war is a fundamental principle of progressive politics - or why I didn't sign the Euston Manifesto

• Progressive foreign policy after Blair - symposium

2005

• Globality, War, Revolution - interview

2003

• The coming choice for protesters: anti-war or peace?
• Political economy and political reaction: a reply to Kees van der Pijl

2002

• Iraq: a bombing campaign too far
• When is a massacre not a massacre? (Jenin)
• India-Pakistan: the new empires square off 
• Ten challenges to anti-war politics
• A confession from the amoral left

2001

• The centre must hold
• The fall of Kabul: challenges of liberation
• Decadence and airpower
• The West has made itself responsible for the starving Afghan children
• Stop the round of slaughter
• Justice for the victims of massacre and war (9/11) - listen to AUDIO version
• A regressive crystallisation of global state power
• Progressive politics in Bush's global state? 
• Iraq: fallout from an earlier war 
• Paying the Price (review of TV film by John Pilger)
• Mediating denial

2000

• The dead-end of anti-globalization protest?
• Zimbabwe: the new divide in world politics (and New Statesman letter)
• Pinochet
• Old Left Review: a reply to Perry Anderson
• Tony Cliff 1917-2000 (obituary)

1999

• The Kosova War
• 'Random brutality': Pilger's denial of genocide in Kosovo
• The New Statesman and the Kosovo War

1998

• Against immunity for serving heads of state (New Statesman letter)

1997

• A question to Jacques Derrida

and one I wrote earlier ...

1978

• The Making of a Party? The International Socialists 1965-76