Europe / The west prepares the European theatre for World War 3

Enhanced military budgets are putting west European economies on a war footing, and infrastructure required for transporting armaments is set to be upgraded.

Capitalist crisis / World’s largest offshore wind monopoly reports record crash

Is the green stock market bubble starting to burst?

Palestine / Heroic people of Gaza continue to resist murderous infamy

British workers must resolutely oppose the imperialist Labour party, which is complicit in, and the active perpetrator of, the Palestinian genocide.

Ukraine / US defeat in its proxy war against Russia a setback for imperialism everywhere

Moscow is not going to be fooled into any settlement that doesn’t bring real security and deal with the original goals of the SMO.

Ukraine / Ukraine war – approaching the end game

Starmer and Macron may dream of a new ‘coalition of the willing’, but they cannot dream away the huge blow that has been dealt to imperialism in Ukraine.

Ukraine / Russia closes in on victory; imperialism scrambles to save its rotten system

The USA wants a better ‘division of labour’ in Ukraine, but its hopes of future victory are still founded in self-serving delusions.

Ukraine / America’s proxy war against Russia has failed

The European ruling class is in disarray over how best to handle this unwelcome reality – or even whether to admit to it at all.

Romania / EU meddling in Romanian election backfires

The exposure of EU manoeuvring has led even its own stooge candidate to distance herself from Brussels, and highlighted deep divisions in the imperialist camp.

Europe / Western politicians’ crocodile tears for one genocide while conducting another

The hypocrisy and venality of western politicians knows no bounds, stops at no lie and baulks at no crime.

Romania / Coup d’etat in Romania

Romania’s constitutional court has cancelled an election result that was not to imperialism’s liking, on the excuse of supposed ‘Russian interference’.

France / France left without a government as Barnier falls

This latest collapse is another twist in Paris’s downward spiral into terminal political crisis.

Georgia / Provocations and rent-a-crowds as imperialists try Maidan 2.0 in Georgia

Georgia’s people are resisting the Euro-Atlantic plot to turn their country into another base for attacking Russia.

Africa / Platform in Dakar: pan-Africanism, anti-imperialism, internationalism

Reinforcing the vital link between he national-liberation movement in the oppressed countries and the workers’ movement in the imperialist centres.

Ukraine / Project Ukraine unravelling as Zelensky touts risible ‘victory plan’

The irreversible collapse of the proxy war against Russia is slamming the door in the face of Nato barbarism.

Ireland / A dark misuse of Irish nationalism

It is something of a novelty to see Irish workers holding up portraits of Michael Collins alongside slogans demanding ‘Pakis out’.

Ukraine / Ukraine is losing the war, sparking panic in the imperialist pack

If the purpose of the Kursk ‘offensive’ was to distract attention from the hammering the fascists are getting in the Donbass, the result has been just the opposite.

Europe / EU elections: austerity and genocide supporting warmongering parties routed

Why have the recent EU elections cast the ruling elites of Europe into a state of panic?

France / What would a real ‘popular front’ look like in France in 2024?

Under cover of ‘uniting against fascism’, French workers are being asked to align themselves with the true instigators of fascism and war.

World / Jamboree in the Alps: imperialist fake ‘peace’ summit exposed

President Putin makes it clear that all responsibility for the ongoing bloodshed lies with the aggressive Nato camp and its Ukrainian stooges.

Yugoslavia / Great advances for Yugoslav communists in Belgrade elections

Comrade Denic of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia elected to local council in Belgrade.

Czech Republic / Anticommunist journalist denounces rise of totalitarianism in Czech Republic

Even supporters of the imperialist system are starting to see that it is not all that they were led to believe.

Europe / Chaos and confusion in Europe’s anti-Russia front

Regime leaders in Kiev, Berlin, Paris and London are equally unable to come to terms with the bitter reality of a Russian victory in Ukraine.

Europe / Uncle Sam heads for the exit in Ukraine leaving Europe in a panic

While Macron threatens boots on the ground to shore up a failing Ukraine, German generals’ leaked audio proves that European forces are already there.

Yugoslavia / Serbian communists denounce west-backed post-election violence

NKPJ candidates took part for the first time in many years, forming an anti-imperialist election bloc with ethnic Russians.

France / Red salute to French resistance fighter Pierre Pranchère

One of France’s last remaining WW2 communist resistance fighters has died at the age of 96.

Ukraine / Defeat in war deepens the cracks in Ukraine and its backers

The search for scapegoats and the scramble for the exit are now in full swing – in Kiev, Washington and Brussels alike.

Greece / Solidarity with Greek comrades under attack for anti-imperialist activities!

Why did fascist thugs choose the eve of our Platform conference to issue threats to a member of the organising team?

Ukraine / How the west bullied Zelensky into prolonging the war in Ukraine

Now that their plans have gone awry, the thieves are falling out and accusations abound.

Ukraine / ‘As long as it takes’? Now Ukraine’s friends are turning off the taps

As USA announces support ‘cannot be indefinite’, several east European states are also looking for a way out.

Armenia / Cosmopolitans in Armenia lead the Armenian state over a cliff

Comprador stooges are selling their country for empty promises. As ever, it is the people who will suffer.

Africa / Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger at the forefront of the African revolution

‘When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.’ – Thomas Sankara

World / Belt and Road envy dominates G20 summit

US imperialism’s latest attempt to counter Russia and China underlines the shifting balance of world forces.

Americas / Celac-EU summit and the rise of Latin-American sovereignty

While European diplomacy failed on every front, the confident advance of the anti-imperialist bloc was unmistakable.

Russia / Russia pulls out of phony Ukrainian grain deal, ‘turns its face’ towards Africa

The recent Russia-Africa summit has set the stage for a new flowering of anti-imperialist relations.

Ukraine / What happened to Ukraine’s spring offensive?

Despite sending ever more powerful weapons to Ukraine, the only thing the imperialists have achieved is the death of more Ukrainians.

USA / How the USA practices so-called ‘coercive diplomacy’

A new name for an old imperialist game.

France / Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit

Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.

Yugoslavia / Solidarity with the people of Serbia against Nato-backed violence in Kosovo

Nato troops must leave immediately and allow Kosovo and Metohija to return to the body of its motherland, Serbia.

Ukraine / Is Zelensky getting cold feet about the prospects for his ‘spring offensive’?

Zelensky’s US backers are determined to keep on fighting to the last Ukrainian and beyond, but could the beleaguered regime decide in favour of a face-saving deal?

Ukraine / Odessa after the massacre: nine years later the wounds are still fresh

The west continues to ignore, downplay and misrepresent the trade unionists who were burned alive in Odessa’s trade union building by Nato’s fascist stormtroopers.

Ukraine / Desperate for a ‘win’ in Europe, USA mulls merging Ukraine with Poland

The war in Ukraine once more reveals imperialist hypocrisy over its alleged defence of the ‘rights of nations’.

Belarus / Rise of the new world order: Belarusian president honoured in Beijing, Tehran

A growing network of economic and military cooperation outside its control is enraging US imperialism.

Baltics / Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

History is being rewritten and Soviet sacrifices are being desecrated as hundreds of WW2 memorials are dismantled across the Baltics.

France / French communists: A revolutionary crisis is developing in France

If properly directed, workers’ action has the power to sweep away not only the rule of Emmanuel Macron but of the entire French bourgeoisie.

Italy / British delegate in Italy: Our rulers are working to overturn Brexit

Workers across Europe share the goal of defeating both the EU imperialist bloc and the US-led Nato war machine.

Ukraine / Ukraine: From coup d’état to war

A brief history of Ukraine from 1991 til today, which aims to fill in a few of the gaping holes in the western corporate media narrative.

Baltics / The west wants to leverage Estonia against Russia

The people of the Baltics are being used as more pawns and potential cannon fodder in Nato’s war against Russia.

British politics / Rishi Sunak’s new northern Ireland deal foreshadows the end of Brexit

But any victory of our rulers is likely to be short-lived.

France / French workers fight for their pension and retirement rights

Militant fighting spirit is on display in abundance in France. What is now needed is class-conscious leadership and vision.

Czech Republic / Medieval inquisition returns to Europe as historical truth-tellers are put on trial

Josef Skála and two other scholars are being prosecuted in Prague, charged with ‘expressing doubts’ about who perpetrated the Katyn massacre.

Europe / Food bank crisis in Europe

As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.

Yugoslavia / What is happening in Kosovo?

It is impossible to make sense of rising tensions in Serbia without knowing the post-socialist history of the Balkans and imperialist geopolitical aims.

Russia / Price cap stunt will not stop Russian oil trade

But it will deepen and expand the fissures within the imperialist camp itself, as the demise of the west accelerates.

World / Imperialist aggression hastens demise of US hegemony and the rise of Brics

As history moves on, new alliances are being formed that are more in tune with the real balance of forces in the world.

Czech Republic / Czech communist leader on the mass movement against Nato’s war

Josef Skála explains what is driving the huge protest movement that has rocked his country to its foundations.

Yugoslavia / Neo-nazis smash up Yugoslav communist party headquarters

British communists stand in solidarity with our Yugoslav comrades under attack from EU-backed fascist thugs.

Germany / Germany is under pressure. Something’s got to give

As the economic crisis deepens and political panic spreads, the future of a unified European imperialist block is looking ever more shaky.

Russia / Vladimir Putin greets new regions with lesson on imperialism’s bloody history

‘The west is ready to cross every line to preserve the neocolonial system which allows it to plunder the world, thanks to its dollar and technology domination.’

Ukraine / Kharkov and Mobilisation: the Russian coalition persists, unhindered

The advance of Ukraine’s armed forces into territory from which Russian forces had already withdrawn, is not the ‘turning point’ western media are claiming.

Germany / Pipeline terrorism: Who benefits?

Western media allegations denouncing Russia’s alleged act of (self) sabotage make no sense, either politically or economically.

Russia / First international antifascist congress held in Moscow

Uniting those who oppose the spread of Nazi ideology – which remains, as before, an imperialist tool for the division and control of the world’s peoples.

Czech Republic / Czech people take to the streets in record numbers against Nato’s war in Ukraine

Is this huge demonstration in Prague a sign of things to come across the European Union?

Ukraine / Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder

Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.

Germany / Closure of Nord Stream 1: another own goal for Europe

It is not Russians but European who are facing hunger and blackouts as a result of the EU’s failed sanctions war.

Capitalist crisis / EU quietly rowing back on self-defeating sanctions against Russia

In the face of the abject failure of their economic war, EU leaders are trying to salvage what they can without admitting to a U-turn.

Ukraine / $65bn in western ‘aid for Ukraine’ is neither aid nor is it for Ukraine

Ukraine will be paying off its latest ‘aid’ package for the rest of this century. That is, provided there is a viable Ukrainian state left when the conflict ends.

Ukraine / As Russia completes Ukraine operation, fallout for the west is just beginning

The reality of Europe’s much-vaunted ‘unity’ in support of Ukraine is that the EU is in the process of tearing itself apart.

France / Macron secures second term, despite unpopularity and ‘ocean of abstentions’

Where is the force capable of harnessing the anger and militancy of the French working class?

Ukraine / Nato weapons for Ukraine: military aid and future profits for the USA

Arms monopolies have jumped at the chance to force as many countries as possible to replace their entire machinery of warfare.

Ukraine / Swiss intelligence specialist assesses the military situation in Ukraine

As information trickles in, it is becoming clear that Nato and its proxies are losing the ground war to Russia and the Donbass antifascist forces in east Ukraine.

Ukraine / Fake news in Kiev heralds cruel April

As Russia meets its military objectives, western enthusiasm for disinformation continues to grow.

Ukraine / Kiev junta facing defeat as Russia roots out fascist militias from Ukraine

The present denazification operation is the result of 30 years of slow-motion war by Nato against Russia.

Yugoslavia / Bosnia: Republika Srpska stands firm in resisting the push into Nato

Resistance to Brussels’ self-appointed authority is growing in the autonomous Serbian region.

British politics / Brexit continues to be a thorn in the side of imperialism

Exposing capitalist democracy, hastening Irish reunification, weakening the camp of international imperialism ... these effects of Brexit are greatly to be welcomed.

Poland / Trouble in the EU: is Polexit looming?

Already holed beneath the water line by Brexit, the European imperialist flagship is heading into increasingly turbulent waters.

Ireland / Deprivation, anger and fear behind loyalist riots in northern Ireland

Poor protestants are responding to a sense of alienation and being left behind. The question they will need to answer is: to what and to whom are they ’loyal’?

Ukraine / Russia puts Ukrainian junta in the dock

Will the European court be interested in upholding the human rights of the people of Crimea and the Donbass?

Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

Capitalism is proving itself to be systemically incapable of dealing rationally and humanely with the global pandemic.

Economy / CBI arrogance undermines capitalist stability

Thinking representatives of the system are increasingly concerned with how blatant the corporate control and looting of the Treasury has become.

Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Venezuela / Using the Covid crisis: British and US military massing off Venezuelan coast

Reckless and desperate attempts are being made by US imperialism to encircle and crush Venezuelan socialism.

Health / Britain’s response to Covid-19 pt 1: ‘Take it on the chin’

What the coronavirus teaches us about our rulers’ attitudes and priorities.

Ireland / The Irish electorate cry out against austerity and bring reunification closer

The future is bright; the future is green.

Syria / Turkey plays with conflagration in Syria

If Erdogan isn’t careful, he could find himself in outright confrontation not only with Syrian but also Russian armed forces.

France / Macron is in trouble – and so is his EU-backed austerity project

The inspirational determination of the French working class is starting to cause cracks in the resolve of the presidential gang.

Europe / How the EU is demolishing pensions

We need to stand together in resisting the drive to make workers pay for the economic crisis of capitalism.

Ukraine / Zelensky – the jury’s out

Is Ukraine’s new president willing or able to end the war in the east and tackle endemic corruption?

France / One year on: the yellow vests and the class struggle in France

What has fuelled the rise and sustained the popularity of the gilets jaunes movement in Britain’s nearest neighbour?

British politics / Brexit delayed again as general election called

Following years of Parliament’s refusal to implement the referendum result, can an election break the deadlock?

Europe / EU legislates to erase the USSR’s role in defeating fascism

But truth has a way of forcing its way through all the same.

Greece / Greek parliamentary elections and the demise of the Syriza government

A case study in the irresistible laws of capitalism.

Austria / Populist Austrian chancellor forced out despite election win

Despite fuelling their anti-immigrant rhetoric, the imperialists are nervous of populist leaders in Europe who favour rapprochement with Moscow.

British politics / British workers demand Brexit … TWICE!

The Brexit party’s win in the 2019 EU election has thrown the Tories into unprecedented chaos.

British politics / EU election: a second Brexit referendum. Do we really need a third?

Britain’s Labour-Tory two-party political monopoly is cracking under the pressure of Brexit.

Lay-offs and closures / British Steel: overproduction crisis claims another scalp

As thousands of workers lose their jobs, the vultures of Greybull Capital are standing at the front of the queue for ‘reimbursement’.

China / US-China trade war escalates

In his quest to crush China’s technological advance, Trump is playing with a fire he cannot control.

Libya / Libyan, migrant and European workers all pawns in the great imperial game

The imperialists are desperate to carve up and plunder a way out of the chaos they have created in Libya, but unable to unite around a common strategy.

British politics / Vote Brexit on 23 May!

British workers have demanded Brexit, and the failure to deliver it is exposing to them the fraud of our so-called parliamentary democracy.

British politics / Galloway, Farage and the Brexit party

British workers are set to keep demanding Brexit at the upcoming EU elections.

Turkey / Relations weakening between Ankara and its Nato allies

The overproduction crisis is taking its toll on the stability of Erdogan’s AKP government, moving it away from unquestioning support for imperialism.

Climate change / Yellow vests v Extinction Rebellion

Climate protestors’ leader accidentally gives away the ruling class’s agenda.

Ukraine / Poroshenko dumped in Ukrainian election

The west-backed coup leader has been ditched in favour of an actor/comedian whose agenda remains unclear.

British politics / Brexit betrayal reveals the sham of bourgeois democracy

Parliament has shown itself to be in direct opposition to the will of the people it theoretically represents.

France / Call from France’s first yellow vest assembly

Even as it sinks out of sight in the British media, France’s popular rebellion is continuing and gaining momentum.

USA / US imperialist scrapping of INF treaty aimed against both Russia and China

US imperialist hawks are deepening their preparations for all-out war with Russia and China.

British politics / Brexit: Parliament does the hokey-cokey

Splits and back-tracking by politicians combine with rampant media hysteria as Brexit day approaches and the ruling class searches for a way out.

British politics / Bring on the no-deal Brexit!

The ruling class is desperate to find a way out of its Brexit impasse, but hamstrung by its divisions.

France / France’s yellow vests fight on, despite concessions

Social unrest in France is being driven by workers’ anger at continuous attacks on jobs, wages and living standards.

British politics / Brexit paralysis – government and opposition in a shambles

As withdrawal day approaches, Parliament is at a standstill, and all sides equally at a loss as to how best they should proceed.

British politics / Brexit means … remain!

The ruling class is divided over whether its best bet is to create a ‘Brexit’ in name only, or to re-run the referendum in the hopes of reversing the leave vote altogether.

Europe / Prague communists host European conference

CPGB-ML delegates join revolutionaries from across Europe in affirming that only socialism can save humanity from endless crisis and war.

British politics / Brexit or bust: Down with the imperialist EU bloc!

The remainers are right in thinking Brexit will weaken British imperialism; they are wrong in thinking this is a bad thing for British workers.

British politics / The ‘people’s vote’ is Britain’s Euromaidan

Sponsored by finance capital, privileged workers and small business owners jointly demand that Brexit be overturned and the neoliberal status quo be reasserted.

Sweden / Shootings, killings, cars on fire – what’s going on?

All a sign of the irretrievable decadence of bourgeois society.

British politics / British workers demand Brexit!

It is not in our class interests to allow the referendum result to be overturned.

Economy / Trade tariffs and trade wars

Hostility to China unites the imperialist powers despite the conflicting interests between them.

Greece / Devastating Athens fires caused by greedy ‘development’ speculation

Profits are valued over human life and the natural environment as at least 84 Greek people are declared dead, over 120 more are missing and 2,000 homes destroyed.

Europe / Populist victories throughout Europe

What does it mean that populist governments are being elected in Europe? Is there a danger that fascism is on the rise?

Disputes / French rail workers lead the fight to defend pay and conditions

Macron's government hopes to use divide-and-rule tactics to break the resistance of the French working class.

British politics / Brexit chaos deepens as withdrawal deadline looms

The bourgeois parties cannot agree within and among themselves, and remainers are vying to overturn the referendum altogether.

Iran / Trump rips up the nuclear deal

Will Europe follow suit?

Ireland / British government struggles with contradictory aims in Ireland

Reunification is the simple solution staring everyone in the face.

Germany / On the election result in Germany

In Germany, as elsewhere, increasing numbers of poor workers are expressing their dissatisfaction with the status quo.

Ukraine / Ukraine junta shoots itself in the foot again

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.

British politics / Editorial: Brexit moves ahead

Article 50 is triggered.

Ireland / Northern Ireland assembly collapses in scandal

Northern Ireland assembly collapses in scandal.

Ukraine / Ukraine discovers that EU association is a poisoned chalice

Meanwhile, Donetsk starts to recover despite ongoing aggression from the Ukrainian fascist regime.

British politics / After Brexit: what next?

The anger of the proletariat must be turned against their real enemy – capitalism!

France / Strike wave hits France

Workers are vigorously opposing their government’s attempt to rip up the French labour code.

Trade unions / Unite says no to Brexit

Britain's biggest trade union backs monopoly capital's view on the imperialist exploiters' club.

Ukraine / Eurovision circus but no bread

The imperialist media support for opponents of Russia, including criminals and/or fascists, is relentless and shameless.

Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

British politics / Letter: Brexit – a historian’s view

The EU is an undemocratic institution created in order to oppress, exploit and wage war.

Ukraine / Kiev counts the cost of acting as catspaw for imperialism

The expiry of Ukraine’s free-trade treaty with Russia is further undermining the economic viability of the coup regime.

France / Paris terror attacks: Further proof that we need to overthrow imperialism

Jihadi terrorism is the bastard child of the union between blind religious fanaticism and imperialist market fundamentalism.

Ukraine / Ukraine: Neither political chicanery nor naked aggression can save Poroshenko

With deadly splits opening up within the fascist camp and Russia standing firm on the border, the prospects for imperialism’s chosen stooges do not look good.

Industry / Industry matters: French ferry workers blaze a trail

Greece / Greece: Syriza caves in

Grexit is inevitable, despite the capitulation of Greece’s government to the austerity demands of the European bankers.

Greece / Crunch time for Syriza?

The bloodsuckers are running out of ways to keep Greece paying out. The imminent explosion will rock the world’s financial systems.

Ukraine / Anglo-US imperialism ratchets up its bellicose stand against Russia

As inter-imperialist contradictions sharpen, some trade unionists are already campaigning for a defence of the imperialist fatherland.

Ireland / Sinn Féin: the voice of all Ireland

The party of anti-imperialist nationalism continues to make headway in Ireland, as rivals north and south are exposed by the latest turns of the economic crisis.

Ireland / Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity

North and south of the border, Sinn Féin is proving to be the only large party that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.

Europe / Syriza victory in Greek elections

The Greek masses say No to austerity – but can Syriza save them?

Ukraine / Crimea goes home

The ill-fated fascist provocation that imperialism and its lackeys have engineered in the Ukraine continues to backfire on its authors.