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

Meanwhile, the hypersonic Oreshnik missile has imposed a new calculus on Nato’s insatiable war planners.

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.

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

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

The multipolar world is a reality, and it has been brought into being as a direct consequence of imperialist actions.

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.

With debt rising exponentially year on year, and interest payments of $1tn this year alone, the US economy is poised ever closer to open bankruptcy.

How does the steady concentration of capital under the present economic system affect the capitalist class itself?

But why should the imperialists be so concerned about a pact for trade and mutual defence?

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

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

DPRK-Russia relations have entered their highest point since the fall of the Soviet Union, and owe much to Russia’s Soviet past.

What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?

The masses everywhere have lost a great friend, but the strategy he followed and the ties he forged continue to pay dividends.

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.

With the USA’s attention elsewhere, Haiti’s people have an opportunity to try to break free from the imperialist stranglehold.

Why did Russia’s hosting of an international youth festival provoke such a hysterical reaction from British media?

Nobody who retains a shred of critical thinking capacity is buying into the western narrative about ‘jihadi terrorists’ having planned this heinous operation.

The entire settler-colonial project is on the rocks, and with it the Anglo-American imperialist domination of the middle east.