This is indeed a devastating setback for the long-suffering peoples of Syria and the wider region, but it is by no means the end of their liberation struggle.

The collapse of the government of Bashar al-Assad is a grave setback for anti-imperialist forces from which we must learn.

Despite causing immense suffering to ordinary people, imperialist economic warfare rarely has the intended effect of bringing down targeted governments.

The middle east has been entirely reshaped – but not in the way the US imperialists planned 12 years ago.

While Uncle Sam and co are bogged down in trying to destroy Russia via Ukraine, peoples elsewhere are getting out from under his jackboot.

Imperialist sanctions, occupation and war have hugely exacerbated the effects of the recent quake on the longsuffering Syrian people.

The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.

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

None of the glib refutations of nazism in Ukraine stand up to scrutiny, yet western media continue to repeat them while closing down those who expose their lies.

The regime change project may have destroyed countless lives and livelihoods, but the Syrian people remain firm in resisting outside interference.

Palestinians have given up waiting for the ‘international community’ to act on toothless resolutions and are increasing the strength and unity of their own resistance.

The war machine is facing a most welcome crisis of legitimacy.

Who is this man, and why is such a fuss being made about him?

It is widely accepted that the imperial powers committed terrible crimes in the past, but is the past really so different from the present?

Red salute to axis of resistance General Soleimani; imperialists out of the middle east!

Trump admits it’s all about the oil and moves to steal as much of it as he can.

Why has this huge step towards Syria’s total liberation been greeted with such howls of rage by those on the self-identifying ‘left’?

The anger of the imperialists against a true national-liberation hero knows no bounds.

After eight years of bloody war aimed at shoring up its control over the middle east, the US has achieved exactly the opposite.

A case study in how imperialism creates a controlled ‘opposition’ to endorse its propaganda lies ‘from the left’.