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Thanks to Andrew, I have discovered Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, superb old school southern soul singer. She blows Joss Stone and even Amy Winehouse out of the water. As an old leftie, I particularly love her cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land", with some slick horn-playing from the Dap-Kings.
Sharon Jones’ version is not hard to find; for example, it forms part of a nice July 4th mix from Some Velvet Blog. You can listen to Woody’s original at Music for Humans, who appropriately puts it in a September 11 post, or at the wonderful Keep the Coffee Coming, who gives some context to the song, or at Midwestern Housewives, who rightly describe Woody as a punk rocker. Keep the Coffee Coming also has a version by Commie folksters the Weavers, who are part of the sound of my childhood (see number 1 here), and by another Folkways giant, blacklisted during the McCarthy years, Cisco Houston. The grossly underrated Tennessee Ernie Ford also did a version, which can be found at this July 4th post from Record Robot (note to Europeans: the post might be too American for your delicate old world sensibilities). For a somewhat odder, but very affecting, version, check WFMU, who give us the Hi-Hats, a band made up of musicians with learning disabilities (and a vocalist who sounds very much like Pete Seeger).
Sleepless Nights: Confessing Without The Confession - "We hear many of these stories in the documentary, stories that exemplify Lebanon’s extraordinary tendency to defy whatever would seem to be in its own sel...
TERRIBLE CRIMES AND TAWDRY DEBATES - This essay, on Asian ‘grooming gangs’ and the debate about them,, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 11 November 2018, under the headli...
“We’re losing Jews from the Labour Party” - Above: Adrian Cohen (right), Chief Rabbi Mirvis and Sadiq Khan commemorate Cable Street Jewish Labour member Adrian Cohen spoke to a local Workers’ Liberty...
80th anniversary of Kristallnacht - @ElishevaAvital posted some very disturbing photographs from an album that her grandfather had acquired somehow during WWII - photos of the events of Krist...
The Yiddish Tevye That Might've Been... - There's a rumor (ahem) that the Folksbiene's smash production of *Fiddler oyfn dakh* is getting extended and moving to an off-Broadway theater next year. [...
The Promised Land of Low Expectations - The narrator of Catherine Lacey’s title story explains what gives her collection its name: The loneliness of certain American states is enough to kill a pe...
Their midterm is over. - Their midterm is over. But where’s our movement(s) at? What have the last two years looked like for us? What does going forward look like? What’s been don...
Verizon threatens survival of CounterVortex - Text [image: Verizon]CountertVortex editor and main contributor Bill Weinberg (that would be me) is currently without phone service, and only intermitte...
Haircut Sir? - Flat Top Days in Brixton - Sad to hear recently of the death of barber Andy Haralambous (1/06/1944 - 09/10/2018). For ten years from the late 1980s, Andy cut my hair regularly at hi...
The Working Class Under the Bolshevik Dictatorship - July 1918 Dear Comrades: News of what is really happening in Russia reaches Western Europe with great difficulty. This news is often incomplete and even di...
The UN aid convoy and the Assad regime torture chief - *Who is responsible for Rukban camp? Above: Jamil Hassan, head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence, wanted on criminal charges in Germany and France; Gavin ...
The tragi-comic end of Wreathgate is a timely reminder of how far British politics has fallen - [image: Image result for jeremy corbyn wreath images]You will recall how, a few months ago, a certain party leader furiously denied, then in the end implic...
Russia: Free the “Network” Prisoners - The Penza Remand Prison was at such pains to show that none of the suspects were being tortured anymore that every evening all ten were "inspected."
Europe Tries to Re-engage in Syria - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2018 At Saturday’s summit in Istanbul between Turkey, Russia, France and Germany, the focus was on extending the ...
On the Carnage in Pittsburgh - Jewish Labor Committee Sends Condolences to Tree of Life Congregation Condemns Domestic Terrorist Act in Pittsburgh and the Climate that Breeds It October ...
Stephen Marks, Momentum candidate to adjudicate antisemitism in Labour, has been flirting with antisemitic politics for decades - This is a re-posting of a report that Michael Ezra wrote (under the name ‘Mikey’) on 10 December 2005 about a public event at which Stephen Marks spoke fro...
DFLA: Deflated, Not Defeated. - DFLA Fascist Salute Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! After all the exertions this week celebrating our 300th birthday we were gonna get intae a crate of ...
Respect - We must respect the referendum result. It's a mantra you hear from all sides. I agree. We must. It's just that I don't think that what they call respecting...
Our local Edward Carpenter - Edward Carpenter lived from 1844 to 1929 and became a prominent socialist, poet and writer who wrote many books and lectured across the country, whilst b...
Back From The Brink - By Dave Cohen I was dreading Labour Party Conference. Convinced that the party had a summit lined up of ignoring Brexit and careering happily towards certa...
Review: The Spy and the Traitor – The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben MacIntyre - Was Michael Foot, leader of the British Labour Party, a Soviet agent? Was Jack Jones, head of the country’s largest trade union, one as well? According to ...
Palestine challenges US embassy move at Hague - The State of Palestine filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) challenging the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jeru...
Julian Assange Reveals: Holocaust Denier Is a Trusted ‘Friend’ - Julian Assange barely even knows the far-right, Holocaust-denying Russian kook with six different names, the latest being “Israel Shamir.” That was the lin...
Sofia Previsited - James Lee-Milne on Sofia (1979) Extremely clean cobbled streets which are hosed at night and even during the day by stalwart women wielding heavy hose-pipe...
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Indefensible: Idlib and the left - Originally published by Freedom. On Saturday regime and Russian airstrikes intensified on Idlib in what appears to be a prelude to the long anticipated cam...
A minor setback in European copyright reform - As a freelance journalist I am disappointed by the close vote in the European Parliament today against the recommendations on copyright reform proposed by ...
A brief history of low-level violence - A brief history of low-level violence I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Just an object. I was sitting at the table in the sixth form common room, pla...
Andy Markovits & Heiko Beyer on "The long-standing interaction between anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism" - In 2007 *Andy Markovits* published a valuable book on the historical traditions and contemporary forms of European anti-Americanism, *Uncouth Nation: Why E...
DSA Must Reject Imperial Rhetoric on Syria - RL Stephens has posted his position on how the DSA should respond to the war in Syria, http://www.dsausa.org/npc_debate The use of the word "debate", I s...
A few words on Munroe Bergdorf and Labour - Last November there was a stoush about a young guy called Josh Rivers. You may remember. He was the first black man to be appointed Editor of the magazi...
The Ballad of Mike Sivier - The absurdity of Labour's antisemitism issue is elucidated in no more clearer terms than the spectre of pro-Corbyn journalists writing articles claiming an...
Shiraz is on the move - Voltaire’s Priest here, after a brief 7-year lacuna! Following a few technical difficulties, Shiraz Socialist is now located at this address: https://shira...
Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...
Mr Cinders: Gender-role reversal fairytale comes to Eltham - You might think that a telling of the story of Cinderella with its gender roles reversed was a thoroughly modern invention. Not so. The Sidcup Operatic S...
For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...
Libertarian socialist resources - This is a list of external links from the Wikipedia article on libertarian socialism, which is currently being trimmed so these are mostly getting deleted....
Mobilise the Millennials! Corbyn and the 2017 General Election - This was published on the 7th of June (a day before the General election) on http://www.irritatedmillennials.com What was thought to be an easy victory The...
Alison Weir on Clay Douglas’s ‘The Free American Hour,’ Aug, 25, 2010 - Recently the website IfAmericansKnewAlisonWeir went down, which documented some of cryptoantisemite Alison Weir’s more outrageous statements. We’ve pulled ...
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The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...
Act now to stop CETA! - CETA is a working class issue The first misleading thing about CETA is its name: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Far from being a trade agreeme...
Rojava and the Iron law of nationalism - Amid the horror of the Syrian civil war/ revolution it seemed that there was one shining beacon of hope; in the far North Kurdish militants inspired by the...
Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses US Intelligence Agencies of Interference in Presidential Election - The classic allegorical definition for chutzpah asks that we imagine someone who murders both parents then begs for mercy as an orphan. Today, the Russian ...
Change of address - Martin In The Margins now has a new home. This site will remain open as an archive. The new Martin In The Margins can be found here.
Focusing on the present, working for a better future for all in Bosnia-Herzegovina - I am posting this today, almost one year later than I promised čika Idris that I would disseminate online the Hujdurović brothers’s Open ...
The Firing of Melissa Click - This is where the faculty case against firing Melissa Click, otherwise correct in every respect, falls apart: But no one on the campus filed a complaint ag...
Violence erupts as Action Palestine targets KCL Israel Society - This evening violence erupted when Kings College London’s (KCL) Action Palestine student group stormed an event organised by KCL Israel Society and LSE I...
Site update - Updates are still ongoing as of 05Jan16, but all the main pages should now be working.
Caroline Lucas resigns from the Stop the War Coalition - Unless I’ve missed something, Stop the War Coalition hasn’t changed. What has changed is that Stop the War Coalition is suddenly getting scrutiny due an or...
Fucking a pig, fucking the country - By now you must have heard the allegations concerning David Cameron in the so called ‘Piggate’ scandal. I can’t say I’m surprised at all at this event and ...
The Wisdom of Elizabeth I on Jeremy Corbyn - It's a long time since we've had an article from any columnist providing quite such a superb, albeit unintentional, exemplification as did Yasmin Alibihai-...
Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...
Robert Wistrich on Jews and the left - I don’t really agree with his line of analysis, but just saw that the introduction of the late Robert S Wistrich’s important From Ambivalence to Betrayal: ...
Closing a Door, Opening Another - This blog has been in operation for nearly 10 years, which is much longer than I could have imagined it going when I first started. I feel now is a fine t...
Hot shots, part deux - Well, that was actually rather good, wasn't it? After the last televised debate I was ready to call for this format of electioneering to be binned and nev...
NEW DIGS. - I've absconded to Wordpress. I've reverted, abdicated, and capitulated to Wordpress. I've hit the road, Jack, and I won't be around here no more, no more, ...
Remember Rev. Stephen Sizer’s Racism. - Rev. Stephen Sizer is no novice in terms of racism. Engage 2006: The Church is Moral; The People in the Shadows Are Not My coverage, going back years. The ...
Look - I’m not saying that if a Tottenham fan comes in and shoots you in the face, you deserve it. But you made fun of Ossie Ardiles whilst wearing an Arsenal shi...
Nationalist gamblers lose Scotland to status quo No - As recriminations from disappointed Yes campaigners become louder, I’m acutely relieved about the No. I also recognise that the No was not a socialist demo...
New UK hip hop - I am planning an official relaunch of this blog soon, so anyone who wants to contribute please give me a shout. In the meantime, here’s some great contempo...
The beat goes on - In the NYT: Decades Later, the Clave Beat Goes on for Latin Jazz and Jewish Musicians Harvito and His Latin Rhythms, in a photo made in the winter of 195...
J-Street Should Have Known When to Say When - Do you remember those beer advertisements telling viewers to “know when to say when”? If not, the basic message was, know when you have had enough and stop...
BBC bias - Subject of the day on Twitter (at least on many of the accounts that I follow and interact with) was BBC bias. Not accusations of institutional leftist bia...
- *Syria: The Road to Geneva – and back again* The suspense over the holding of the Geneva II Conference on Syria appeared to have finally ended on 18 Januar...
Syria: war threat, the US-Russia deal, and left delusions - For two and a half years, the Assad regime has waged a barbaric war against the Syrian populace, using long-range missiles, fighter aircraft, helicopter gu...
Zizek on "liberal democratic freedom" and its inherent limitations - Yes, more Zizek, but this paragraph from a new essay in the London Review of Books underlies a key point in modern democratic socialist theory: Only a poli...
March to save Lewisham Hospital! - OK this isn’t a political blog. Well, I suppose it is, because its about cities and peopel living in cities and what could be more political than that? But...
Compulsive Behavior - Compulsive Behavior by Sabine Nuss Originally published in German in the daily newspaper neues deutschland The Deutsche Theater in Berlin recently celebrat...
Anti-Debt Struggles, Occupy and the State: A reply to Maisano - In a new Jacobin article, Chris Maisano takes issue with the way Occupy is supposedly approaching the issue of consumer debt. He writes: As Doug Henwood po...
On being critical as an ally - Returning to this interview of Abu Marzook: As for the Protocols, “The Zionists wrote it, and they said, ‘No, we didn’t.‘ [It’s] linked to Zionists,” he sa...
Indian stories - From Point of No Return: Here are various stories about Jews in and from India which Point of No Return readers have brought to my attention: Brivdaker in ...
Luke's book review, prologue. - Given all the spare time I have on my hands and the general lack of intellectual stimulation that occurs in my life, I have decided to review a book (or mo...
Mossad use animals as Weapons - Claim - Our man on the spot in Gaza, Bruce Barmalotti of the SPSC, reports that post event interrogation of a number of Daisys, Seans and Billys recently imported ...
Batman may remind us of Burke’s key kernal, but conservative he ain’t - Clearly having trouble with Robert Coville’s conclusions earlier, Anthony Painter seems to only reluctantly suppose that Batman is a rule of law doubting c...
Goodbye wordpress - I haven’t written anything for this for a long time (or anywhere for that matter). Now I have a new site at http://www.gavinbailey.org.uk, so I think I’ll ...
Book Sorting - I'm sitting down surrounded by books. Some books I have to reshelve. Some books have to go to my Oxfam book shop to stop me drowning in a sea of books. He...
"What a plonker" in Botley, sorry North Hinksey - Oh dear, oh dear! The *Oxford Mail*'s Insider column reports (15 December 2011): THE Insider knows only too well that council meetings can go on a bit. But...
'Wide angled lens' - This post was a comment on another bloggers post; I thought I'd share it as a blog piece. There are countless democracies, groups, organisations etc. acr...
Internships and the New Spirit of Capitalism - Review Article: Intern Nation, Ross Perlin, 2011. It is clear that the economy has changed dramatically since the 1960s. “Flexibility,” “creativity” and “e...
Five for Friday - Band site here. More about the band here. Band website here. Artist Myspace “The only way to change things is to shoot the men who arrange things.” Website...
New Carnival out at Harpy Marx - Well, I say new, it's a few days old and I only just remembered to link to it here - sorry everyone!
Yes, Mr Gove, please can we have this fucker mess about with our History syllabi - What makes a good historian? A good memory? A nice style of prose? Ruthless self-promotion and a pathological need to be seen as upsetting applecarts? A...
Blog back - After a few months of blogging holiday this blog is back. Obviously the focus will change, we’re not anymore in electoral period, and thanks for that. Ther...