Roger Benjamin
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.
5 November 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party, antisemitism
Solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn
The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party comes as no surprise to those who have been watching developments over the past few years, writes Roger Benjamin . This was always the a…
20 October 2020 · · antisemitism
Double standards on antisemitism
In an unexpected development, the right’s favoured candidate in the election for chair of Young Labour, Eluned Anderson, has withdrawn after criticism of a 2019 Facebook comment in which she…
6 December 2019 · · Britain · 1 comment
Post- Truth election?
In a pub in Cumbria, a data engineer from Workington has just been crowned the World’s Biggest Liar , writes Roger Benjamin . But his tall tales are no match for some of those told in this p…