Harry’s Place

A couple of weeks after 9/11, the Weekly Worker - the newspaper of the pretend Communist Party of Great Britain - hosted a debate between Ian Donovan and Bob Pitt.
Donovan’s immediate reaction was that revolutionary socialists should resist the urge to defend “fanatical, ultra-religious movements with ‘anti-imperialist’ pretensions, particularly in the muslim world”: a mindset […]

In spite of those here who naturally sneered at my employment with Boris Johnson as his community affairs adviser, I bring good news from City Hall.  Whilst Boris’ cancellation of the Morning Star subscription was regrettable (even if it’s a rag devoted to propping up deformed workers’ states), his staff were thankful to me for […]

This is a post by Dave Dudley, former Editor of Leninist Vanguard
It is the fourth (or possibly fifth) duty of every revolutionary to take his case to the enemy, if only to mock their feeble strategies and invite them to take up his cause as a viable alternative.  While the lawyers are still going through […]

Long-time Harry’s Place readers may recall occasional guest poster Dave Dudley whose past communications with the masses are collected here. Dave recently called to explain to us that he has been too busy to contribute to Harry’s Place recently because of an exciting new development in his political life which has been taking up […]

The case for a peacekeeping force to enter Liberia is so compelling that even Socialist Worker can see it:
NO SANE person could be unmoved by the terrible suffering of people in the West African state of Liberia. Fourteen years of brutal civil war has seen at least 200,000 people killed out of a population of […]

James Lileks says Arnie’s decision to run for governor of California will “just horrify the Europeans,” while Stephen Pollard narrows it down a bit and says (with striking similarity) that it will just “horrify the French”.
Will it? I would have thought the idea of a violent action movie actor and bodybuilder being taken seriously as […]

Some good news from Iraq, which you probably won’t have read in the papers.

I’m delighted to announce that as part of the attempt to broaden the ideological output of this blog, leading revolutionary socialist Dave Dudley has agreed to provide occasional contributions to the site.
Long-term readers will remember Dave when he first appeared on Sectarian Worker, a decision that led to a split in that organisation with Dave […]