London Progressive Journal Issue 112

An Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder

The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assassins in the supposed safety of a sovereign country.

Yes, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was a Palestinian activist. We have no reason to believ...

Michael Foot and his Legacy for Labour

The death of former Labour leader Michael Foot has brought him many accolades from his friends in the labour movement, and also, with some hypocrisy, from some of his political enemies amongst the Tories.

Michael Foot was on the left of the Labour Party. Having come from a Liberal fam...

'Urgent Threats' of Yesteryear

To understand the lunacy of the problematic Islamic 'threat' currently being hyped in mainstream US political discourse, we need to place the concept in the historical context of Western, particularly US imperialism’s collective self-image. White American identity has from the beginning define...

Fighting Racism in Italy: Immigrant Workers Lead the Way

1st March 2010 will go down in history as the date when tens of thousands of the four and a half million immigrant population of Italy threw down the gauntlet to the racist government of Silvio Berlusconi and the ever-widening persecution emanating from the pores of a society deep in crisis. A...

Book of the Month: Fenner Brockway's 'Inside the Left'

Fenner Brockway, who died in 1988, was one of those quite rare figures, like Tony Benn, a man who began his political career as a principled socialist and remained so to the end of his life. His political career spanned most of the 20th century and for most of that time he was at the centre of...