Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
I recently circulated a petition calling for Fifa to suspend the Croatian football team from upcoming World Cup games in Brazil because of its use of World War II Croat fascist slogans.
There's another story relating to Croatia's wartime role which has received greater international attention, however - people claiming to be representative of the Croatian community in France have sued Bob Dylan.
Their accusation is that this great singer, whose songs of social criticism such as Masters of War, Blowin' In the Wind and The Times They Are A'Changin' have made him one of the best-known and most admired US artists of the last 50 years, has made offensive and even racist remarks about Croats in Rolling Stone magazine.
Hundreds in Berlin gathered on January 15 to honour the US-born socialist who made East Germany his home. Florentine Morales Sandoval reports
As the anti-fascist movement mourns the death of Gerry Gable, his long-time comrade and former Searchlight editor STEVE SILVER reflects on the life of an indispensable activist who spent six decades infiltrating, exposing and undermining fascism
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger


