Geoff Ryan

11 articles attributed to this name

Socialist Resistance did not print a byline field. The names here were read out of the articles themselves, from the paper's own house styles — “… writes Andy Stowe”, “Dave Kellaway explains…”, a name standing alone at the top. That works for about a third of the archive and it can misread: a name may belong to someone quoted rather than the author. Treat these as a finding aid, not as an attribution — the article itself is the authority. A few, where the author has told us directly, are recorded rather than inferred.

10 November 2020 · Geoff Ryan · Labour Party, Wales
Wales and the pandemic: a view from the frontline
The politics of dealing with the pandemic has played out in a distinctive way in Wales. Health in the United Kingdom state is devolved along with a number of other services. The UK Tory gove…
31 January 2020 · Geoff Ryan · Reviews, Uncategorized
1917 reviewed
You can tell 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, is an important film as I was able to watch it in my local cinema in a village in Carmarthenshire within a few days of its nationwide release, writ…
8 November 2018 · Geoff Ryan · Britain
The First World War: truth and lies
2014 was barely a few weeks old before various right wing politicians and historians began making clear their views on how the First World War should be remembered. Michael Gove, Boris Johns…
15 March 2018 · Geoff Ryan · Ukraine
Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
Yulia Yurchenko has produced an important new book on the crises in Ukraine. Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (Pluto Press, 2018) takes a very differen…
30 November 2017 · Geoff Ryan · Bosnia · 1 comment
Ratko Mladic – war criminal
The suicide on 29 November 2017 of former Bosnian Croat general Slobodan Praljak after he failed to get his conviction for war crimes overturned has slightly overshadowed the conviction last…
30 July 2015 · Geoff Ryan
Two anniversaries that wont be celebrated
Geoff Ryan 2015 is a year in which many anniversaries are taking place in Britain. Magna Carta (1215), Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815), Gallipoli and the sinking of the Lusitania (1915), D…
17 July 2015 · Geoff Ryan
Remembering Srebrenica: 20 Years After the Massacre
Geoff Ryan Last Saturday (11th July) all sorts of ‘worthies’ gathered in Srebrenica on the 20th anniversary of the massacre of over 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) by Bosnian Serb forces un…
6 March 2014 · Geoff Ryan
Bosnian workers rebel against corruption and poverty
image no longer in the archive A media silence on Bosnia While western newspapers, radio and television news programmes have been full of events in Ukraine you have to search very hard for a…
20 January 2014 · Geoff Ryan · 4 comments
The First World War: Truth and Lies
image no longer in the archive Harry Patch was there. Gove and Johnson weren't 2014 was barely a few weeks old before various right wing politicians and historians began making clear their v…
18 October 2012 · Geoff Ryan
Pussy Riot - Katia freed
Geoff Ryan examines the latest developments - and the double standards of Roman Abramovitch.. . Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the three jailed members of feminist punk collective Pussy Riot…
1 October 2012 · Geoff Ryan
Free Pussy Riot
Geoff Ryan explains why a punk feminist band needs the support of all those who think another world is both possible and necessary Monday 1 October saw the opening of the appeal against thei…