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Ajax was a mythical Greek hero who faught against Troy. Ajax is also a powder you'd use to clean dishes and sinks. And today it is the name of a group of technologies which together create an utterly different experience...

A version of this article is also online here. Usually at this time of year, I am asked by Workers Online to review the world geographically, continent by continent, country by country, and point out the highlights of the past...

This letter was published in the London Review of Books. I was happy to see Ilan Pappe open his article on Amir Peretz (London Review of Books, 15 December 2005) with a quote taken from my interview with the new...

To the editor, Ethical Consumer magazine As a new subscriber, I was looking forward to reading my first issue of Ethical Consumer magazine. Like most of your readers, I try to shop ethically -- I buy Fair Trade products when...

For the ninth year in a row, LabourStart is once again organizing the Labour Website of the Year competition. The history of that competition reads like a history of trade union use of the Internet. Back in 1997, the competition...

A few years back, the TUC launched a website specifically aimed at union reps. It was called "unionreps.org.uk". The site has a few features, such as news (including a LabourStart newswire), a directory of resources, and so on. But at...

A trade union leader's victory marks beginning of class politics in Israel. Workers' Online runs my analysis of Amir Peretz's victory....

A friend of mine who's been working for 25 years on a shop floor in an Israeli factory summed up the historic signficance of Amir Peretz's rise to power in the Labor Party. It doesn't really matter all that...

I've just had a quick look at some of the best websites that focus on union rights -- the Campaign for Labor Rights based in Washington, ICTUR in London, and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Brussels. All...

The launch of LabourStart TV (at http://www.labourstart.tv) may mark the beginning of new era in union communications. I say that knowing that it sounds like hyperbole, and grossly exaggerates what we are doing. But let me explain.We have had...

I haven't done a careful academic study of this, but it seems to me that few unions in Britain offer more opportunities for members to express themselves online than Napo -- the union for family court and probation staff. Napo...

If you haven't yet done so, please check out How Internet Radio Can Change the World -- my latest book, published in April 2005.Full details about the book, including how to purchase your copy securely online, are available here....

Last month, I attended the founding convention in St. Louis of the Change to Win federation -- the alliance of unions which have broken away from the AFL-CIO. I wrote at length about the convention for a number of union...

You can read my article in full, here....