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2009

• A Century of Genocide 1915-2009 Open Democracy, April

• Sudan, the ICC and Genocide: A Fateful Decision Open Democracy, March

• A viable two-state solution needs the idealism and utopianism of the one-state idea Democratiya Spring-Summer 2009 Symposium on Israel and Palestine: Two States After Gaza 

• UN must protect civilians in Sri Lanka: Government needs to confront the situation in northern Sri Lanka Letter to The Times with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others, 6 March

• The Uses of Genocide: Kenya, Georgia, Israel, Sri Lanka Open Democracy, February

• Israel's Politics of War Open Democracy, January

2008

• After the Georgia War: the challenge for citizen action Open Democracy, August

• Lessons for the West from the Georgian War Democratiya

• Antisemitism and the Boycott: An Exchange between Martin Shaw and David Hirsh Democratiya

• My Lai to Haditha: war, massacre and justice Open Democracy 

2007

• The genocide file: reply to Anthony Dworkin Open Democracy

• The International Court of Justice: Serbia, Bosnia and Genocide Open Democracy

• The facile politicisation of violence New Statesman letter
• Genocide: rethinking the concept Open Democracy

2006

• The myth of progressive war Open Democracy
• 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 Democratiya

2005

• Globality, War, Revolution - interview Democratiya

2003

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

2002

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

2001

• The centre must hold the global site
• The fall of Kabul: challenges of liberation the global site
• Decadence and airpower the global site
• The West has made itself responsible for the starving Afghan children the global site
• Stop the round of slaughter the global site
• Justice for the victims of massacre and war (9/11) - listen to AUDIO version the global site
• A regressive crystallisation of global state power the global site
• Progressive politics in Bush's global state? the global site
• Iraq: fallout from an earlier war  the global site
• 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 New Statesman letter
• 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 Socialist Register 1978