"Work was a mugs game." My Grandad lived by that rule - even when it landed him two years in jail for a botched post office robbery. From "poyer" to prison, and his biggest lie of all. ⬇️ Full story: open.substack.com/pub/leadensk... #JewishHistory #TrueCrime #LondonHistory

Maccabi: The name, the hammer, the hooligans. Maccabi Tel Aviv, carry a name symbolising militant Jewish defence. Read my latest Substack article here. #MaccabiTelAviv #FanBan #AstonVilla #SportsSecurity #Antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...

Mike Cohen: The Jewish anti-fascist whose camera was his gun. 📸 The 62 Group activist & co-founder of Searchlight, who fought fascism not just with his fists, but with a lens. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk... #AntiFascism #UKHistory #Searchlight #MikeCohen #JewishActivism #Socialism

A fragile dawn: The war may be ending, but the storm clouds of political failure & rising #Antisemitism are just beginning to clear. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/leadensk... #Geopolitics #IsraelPalestine #UKPolitics #AntiZionism

The Left has a choice: fight the anti-Nazi battles of the past, or fight for a concrete vision of a better Britain rooted in the rebuilding of the NHS & social housing. My view on the challenge ahead. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk... #UKPolitics #PoliticalStrategy

My latest article on the surprising historical ties between Irish and Jewish nationalism, and what the band Kneecap's current controversy reveals about their own history. #Kneecap #IrishNationalism #Zionism #History #Politics #Language tinyurl.com/2tha82t7

The Age of Unreason is here. My latest article explores how identity politics and misinformation are eroding our shared reality. bit.ly/4mbDUbG #Culture #Politics #Enlightenment #Antisemitism

Meir Vilner: The communist who signed Israel’s independence declaration. My latest article on Substack tinyurl.com/meirvilner #Israel #Zionism #Communism

The unlikely leader: Rudolf Rocker and London's Jewish Anarchists. He led Jewish workers against sweatshops and built inter-communal solidarity, leaving an often overlooked legacy. #anarchism #antisemitism #rudolfrocker leadenskies.substack.com/p/the-unlike...

The Black Book of Soviet Jewry highlights the suffering of Soviet Jewry under the Nazi occupation during the Second World War. It was a tragically suppressed. Read my latest Substack here: leadenskies.substack.com/p/the-black-... #Nazis #Holocaust

Leopold Trepper: The anti-Nazi spy who defied all odds. From socialist-Zionist to Soviet master spy he commanded one of WWII's most effective anti-fascist networks. My latest article on Substack: #leopoldtrepper #redorchestra #antifascist #antinazi leadenskies.substack.com/p/leopold-tr...

Henri Curiel: The unsolved assassination of a Jewish revolutionary. From Cairo exile to Parisian target, his life was a nexus of liberation movements and Cold War shadows My latest article on Substack #antiimperialism #antifascism open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...

"It took some serious guts to infiltrate, expose, and then carry on campaigning against the Ku Klux Klan in the USA in the 1940s..." My latest article on Substack is about Stetson Kennedy and can be found here leadenskies.substack.com/p/stetson-ke... #StetsonKennedy #antifascist

How antisemitism killed my lecturer: My latest Substack on how antisemitism led to the death of university lecturer Dr Laurinda Stryker bit.ly/4kryrNj #antisemitism

VE Day: Celebrating the victory of a people's war against fascism. An anti-fascist perspective. leadenskies.substack.com/p/ve-day-80t... #VEDay #VEDay80

The visit of two great Soviet Jews to Britain and the tragic aftermath. My latest article on the 1943 trip by Itzik Feffer and Solomon Mikhoels. #Mikhoels #Feffer #antifascism #antisemitism tinyurl.com/3j27r2jk

On 6 April 1989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s motorcade of seven armoured Zil limousines arrived in Watford Business Park as part of a two-day trade trip to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. My latest article on Substack. #Gorbachev #Watford #Communism #CPGB open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...

My lastest Substack article about TV documentary pioneer Stephen Peet and his BBC TV series Yesterday's Witness who made groundbreaking programmes about The Battle of Cable Street, Conscientious Objectors and the Jarrow crusade amongst other things. bit.ly/4l5C5Nr

Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, rolled off the printing presses as a regular publication for the very last time recently, 50 years after the first edition came out in February 1975. Link to my Substack article in next post. #antifascist @searchlightmag.bsky.social

John Peet: The Englishman who exposed West Germany’s Nazis. "There used to be a fortnightly publication that exposed former Nazis, German revanchism and a new generation of nazis in West Germany..." Link to full article below. #Nazis #antifascist #DDR

My article in today's Morning Star newspaper. #HolocaustMemorialDay #Auschwitz morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/au...

Holocaust Memorial Day: Against denial and relativisation: Today – 27 January – marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where the Nazis murdered 1.1 million people. #HolocaustMemorialDay #Auschwitz open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Auschwitz death marches. Here's my article commemorating that day. bit.ly/40MvMGB

"Pills with Plenty of Lead": The Aid Spain movement in 1930s’ East End of London. My latest article on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...

Police have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...

The Jewish International Brigaders and why they are little remembered. My latest article on Substack in post below. #antifascist #antisemitism

Will be interesting to see what the usual suspects have to say about this when they can't blame Israel: BBC News - Palestinian Authority suspends Al Jazeera TV channel in West Bank www.bbc.com/news/article...

What do you think of when Woody Guthrie comes to mind? The Dust Bowl Ballads? An iconic rambling Okie who sums up a slice of America? His song “This Land is Your Land”? Or his labour movement songs like “Union Maid”? #woodyguthrie Link to my latest Substack article in next post

Alois Brunner, the Nazi war criminal that helped brutalise Syria. My latest article on Substack. Free to subscribe. #Syria #AloisBrunner open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...

After almost half a century covering protests I'm doing a Kickstarter for a book. Take a look, if you like it, please share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iar...

Woody Guthrie's fight against fascism and racism. My latest post on Substack. I'm new on Bluesky so please follow me on here or subscribe to my Substack (all articles free) if you are interested in this kind of stuff. #woodyguthrie #antifascist open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...

My latest post on Substack on the British left and antisemitism. Free to subscribe if it's the kind of thing you are interested in reading more about. #antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/leadensk...