Eric Lee

It's World Book Day (in the UK and Ireland). Buy a book! #WBD26

For my friends who read Russian, this is a translation of an article of mine about recent Georgian developments: gli-rp.org/materialy/novy…

In the late 1960s, in a classified CIA journal, American spies debated whether Stalin had been a secret agent of the tsarist police. Read my short review here: goodreads.com/review/show/81…

A few days ago I was interviewed by Ian Williams from the Foreign Press Association (USA) about the Georgian republic of 1918-21, the 1924 uprising, and what's the difference between Democratic Socialism and Communism. Watch it here: youtu.be/PsryeaOpLTY?si…

Wow! Over 2,000 new supporters signed up overnight - let’s build this campaign by spreading the word: labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.…

Today I spoke at the annual conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution, at Northumbria University in Newcastle. I last spoke at one of their conferences in 1992. Here is what I said today: bit.ly/sgrr50

Let's make 2025 better - together.

122 journalists and media workers killed in 2024, says the IFJ bit.ly/122journalists

@Zourabichvili_S @RestIsPolitics This is a remarkable interview with an extraordinarily brave woman - the leader that Georgia needs right now.

Interview with @RestIsPolitics twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The Georgian Declaration of Independence from 1918 - a visionary document created by men and women committed to democracy. What would those extraordinary people think of what the current Georgian government is doing today?

If I were in Tbilisi, I'd be marching with these guys.

For several months now, this has been my word processor. It doesn't get simpler and clearer and I'm loving using iA Writer again.

104 journalists killed this year, according to the IFJ - more than half of them in Gaza bit.ly/ifj-2024

ITUC calls for inclusive transition to democracy ituc-csi.org/Syria-ITUC-cal…

The Morning Star, which is funded in part by some British trade unions, ran an editorial today with this headline. Isn't it time for British unions to stop paying for this crap?

The Georgian people can win this fight. But they need our help and support. ericlee.info/blog/the-georg…

Georgia: we call on the government and its police to stop brutalising journalists [EFJ] bit.ly/efj20241201

7 days into our campaign in support of jailed trade unionist Ismet Aslan: 3,126 trade unionists have joined our call for his freedom Let's double that to over 6,000! bit.ly/ismetaslan

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