“Calling for the elimination of the state of Israel does not mean the elimination of the Jewish people,” Khamenei told officials and participants at an Islamic conference in Tehran, according to his official website. “It means that the people of Palestine - be they Muslim, Christian or Jewish - should choose their own government.”

"The case represents a major escalation in how states nationwide view the employment practices at the core of many app-based companies, and the first time that a local government has sought back payroll taxes from Uber, which has hundreds of thousands of drivers in the United States."

We need to talk about the need to bring millions of workers into the streets for Earth Day on April 22, 2020. But we need to have a continuous series of actions, as was just done this past week, until eight days later, which is May Day 2020, which is the true workers and trade unions holiday. A week of activity between the “bookends” of Earth Day and May Day could be a wonderful opportunity to bring the labor and environmental movements together in a way we haven’t seen before.

“I have this view that everyone I meet knows something I don’t - and we can learn from each other.’’

Jeremy Corbyn was speaking to me just before going on stage to deliver his 87th speech of the 2015 Labour leadership campaign.

His credo didn’t sound like that of a Stalinist or Trotskyist - the terms used in much of the tabloid press to describe, or indeed denounce him.

At the Historical Materialism conference, the Saturday discussion between Professor David Harvey and myself on Marx’s double-edge law attracted more than 250 people.  Sunday’s session on the econom…