Culture / Art has a side – and we must take ours

In defence of socialist realism and a culture of the working class.

Social wage / The current poverty crisis and our tasks

Living standards in Britain are continuing to deteriorate, and the rate of deterioration is accelerating.

British politics / Starmer’s sleaze

It is becoming clearer by the day that Labour serves monopoly capital and is preparing for a civil war against the working class.

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.

Yemen / USA surrenders and ceases attacks against the Houthis

Trump proclaims a hollow ‘victory’ – but has to leave Yemen free to continue its blockade of Israel.

Poetry / Poem: Logic

A poetic response to VI Lenin’s classic work on philosophy: ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’.

Trade unions / RMT union launches new campaign to end outsourcing on the railways

It is not their inability to think logically but their dedication to profit-generation that leads our rulers to destroy public services.

Pay and conditions / Enable care workers strike against poverty pay in Scotland

Low pay has become such an issue in the care sector that up to 30 percent of vacancies are unfilled.

Social wage / People’s Assembly puts on show of fake outrage over ‘Tory Starmer’

Ever hopeful of rescuing their reputations and keeping a lid on working-class discontent, the fake left are at it again.

Palestine / Testament from a murdered journalist: Hossam Shabat’s last article

Hours before being killed in an airstrike, a Palestinian journalist describes Israel’s resumption of its scorched earth campaign in Beit Hanoun.

Society / What have the residents of Spalding got against the people of Gaza?

The media plays a vital role in desensitising British people to the sufferings of their fellow workers.

Industry / Scunthorpe steel debacle

If strategic industries are to be saved, their only salvation is full nationalisation and administration according to plan not profit.

Film and TV / TV review: Adolescence

Netflix’s latest liberal mind rot.

Civil liberties / Case dismissed after Palestine Action blockade of Instro Precision arms factory

Courts are once again balking at convicting those who act to disrupt the activities of the US/British/Israeli genocidal war machine.

Palestine / Gaza: the struggle continues

No cooperation with genocide. Defend our rights. Anti-zionism is not a crime!

USSR / Harpal Brar: Soviet victory over fascism – a festival of progressive humanity

The Soviet Union’s colossal contribution to the second world war cannot be overstated – it is up to us, communists, to protect this legacy.

Korea / Letter to north Korea in praise of its selfless fraternal solidarity with Russia

New solidarity organisation expresses appreciation for the internationalist and socialist example set by the brave people of the DPRK.

Capitalist crisis / Starmer’s failing militarism

As the drive to war ramps up, the contradictions of decaying imperialism are on full display.

Russia / General Gerasimov on Russia’s victory in Kursk

Despite throwing in huge numbers of Ukraine’s best men and the west’s best armaments, Nato’s invasion force has been utterly destroyed.

Palestine / Gaza – the genocide continues

The resumption of all-out genocidal warfare against Palestinian civilians instead of securing is increasingly undermining the existence of the zionist colony.

Russia / Russia and the DPRK’s military cooperation is anti-imperialism in action

Nato’s reckless invasion of Kursk has totally backfired, leading not to a triumphant advance but to the total defeat of its proxy war against Russia.

Philippines / Former President Duterte and the farce of international justice

Duterte’s ICC indictment is a punishment beating aimed at all those who might try to steer a neutral course as the imperialist war drive intensifies.

China / Containment to confrontation, cold to hot: the US drive to war on China

Common prosperity or common destitution? The drive to war against China must be resolutely opposed.

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.

Russia / Russia is a bulwark of the anti-imperialist world

It is incumbent upon all progressive humanity to defend Russia from imperialist aggression and lying propaganda.

Korea / Long live a sovereign and socialist People’s Korea!

The DPRK continues to stand as a model of courage and steadfastness in the defence of socialism and sovereignty.

Social wage / The poverty crisis and our demands

Workers did not cause the economic crisis, but they are expected to pay the price through austerity and war.

Society / The struggles of the youth

Capitalism has nothing to offer our young people except a lifetime of servitude to a system that crushes their spirits.

Health / No euthanasia!

Workers must demand proper health and social care, and dignified, comfortable retirement homes and hospices for the sick and elderly.

Divide and rule / Immigration, class unity and the fight against racism

Our party is committed to opposing the divide-and-rule tactics used to stop the British working class from using its collective power.

British politics / No illusions in bourgeois democracy

The Labour party and all its ‘left’ hangers-on continue to work day and night to restore workers’ illusions in parliamentary elections.

Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

Our role is not to take over the bureaucracies but to bring a class-conscious understanding and programme to rank-and-file militants.

Civil liberties / Bourgeois democracy and fascism

The march towards authoritarian dictatorship can be countered with by a party imbued with revolutionary optimism.

Civil liberties / The Labour party is the agent of increased political repression in Britain

Starmer’s government was installed to disarm working-class resistance and destroy the pro-Palestine movement.

British politics / Develop the anti-imperialist core of the Palestine solidarity movement

Growing anti-zionist sentiment must be developed into a consistent, scientific and class-conscious opposition to imperialism as a whole.

British politics / We must build our organisation and connect it to the masses

Party members must redouble their efforts to grow our organisation and draw the best elements of the working class towards it..

British politics / Learning the lessons of front work

Working in broad fronts is of vital importance to our work, but communists must maintain strict discipline while doing so.

British politics / Tenth party congress elects new leadership as capitalist crisis deepens

CPGB-ML delegates sum up vital lessons of the last few years, assessing the effect of the crisis on global and local conditions.

USSR / Josef Stalin – hero of the working class

Seventy-two years ago a great leader of the proletariat died, but his legacy is now emerging stronger than ever.

Disputes / Birmingham’s gone bust! But why are workers told to pay?

No one has explained why some of the most hardworking and essential employees should bear the brunt of a crisis they had no hand in making.

Poetry / Poem: Tyrant

A poetic response to the barbarity and criminality of Israel’s zionist-in-chief.

Yemen / Yemen is upholding the honour of the world’s people once again

As the Gaza ceasefire breaks down, the Ansarullah government has resumed its blockade of the Red Sea.

Belarus / Landslide for Lukashenko as Belarus reasserts sovereignty and independence

One of the positive side-effects of Russia’s SMO in Ukraine has been the deepening cooperation between Russia and Belarus.

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.

Disputes / Birmingham bin workers expected to pay for council’s bankruptcy

Some binmen are being told to take an £8k pay cut after national austerity and local mismanagement combined to bankrupt the city.

China / TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony

What is it about this particular social media platform that has the imperialists so worked up?

Civil liberties / London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

‘It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ was not my favourite proverb at school, but I’ve recently come to fully appreciate its meaning.

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.

Korea / DPRK condemns USA’s latest war provocations

US imperialism’s attempt at a ‘show of strength’ can only aggravate the security crisis on the Korean peninsula.

Pay and conditions / Starmer ditches the promised ‘right to switch off’

Confirming what might have been anticipated about how sincere the Labour party was in its pre-election pledges to bring in a ‘New Deal for Workers’.

Civil liberties / David Miller detained by British counter-terrorism police at Heathrow

The British state, egged on by its rabid zionist attack-dogs, continues to persecute any journalist or activist who spreads awareness about its genocidal crimes.

Lay-offs and closures / The Grangemouth scandal

Failure to mobilise against job cuts at Grangemouth reveals the fraudulent nature of Unite and SNP leaders.

Lebanon / Nasrallah’s funeral: A million voices for resistance

A human flood transformed Beirut into the global capital of freedom, and sent a defiant message to the zionists and imperialists: the resistance is unbroken.

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.

Ecuador / Ecuador’s election – a critical analysis of class interests

As the ‘pink wave’ continues to wash over Latin America, the influence of private enterprise and US imperialism on bourgeois elections should not be forgotten.

Palestine / Israeli prisoner: ‘Palestinians are the rightful owners of Palestine’

After more than a year spent with resistance fighters in Gaza, freed Israeli praises the ‘respect for humanity and values’ of his captors.

Trade unions / TUC leader endorsing Ukraine war is a betrayal of British and Ukrainian workers

Further proof that the gang in charge of the official organisations of working-class resistance have been completely bought off.

USA / Trump White House freezes USAid

Does the dismantling of part of the USA’s regime-change machinery really mean that US imperialism no longer aims to bring down sovereign states?

Palestine / Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resistance celebrates significant victory

While the war for liberation is far from over, the Israeli entity has been mortally wounded.

USA / Deny. Defend. Depose. UnitedHealth CEO killing and the class struggle

Those words were scratched into bullets by suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, who has become an unexpected folk hero in the USA.

Science and technology / How the Chinese beat Trump and OpenAI

A classic case of constraints acting as a spur to creativity – and in the process destroying the imperialist goal of monopolising new technology.

USA / Who is Elon Musk really?

Is it possible to be hailed as ‘the world’s richest man’ and also be ‘a rebel’ and a ‘friend of the people’?

USA / LA fires fuelled by imperialism, corruption, exploitation and injustice

Meanwhile, corporate media try to divert attention by divisive culture wars framing.

World / Washington’s unstoppable superweapon

It is not only their physical independence that countries must protect from imperialist domination but also their civil and information sovereignty.

Trade unions / Divided we beg – Unite union demands expanded military production

The Labour aristocracy once again demonstrates its total subservience to British imperialism and its war machine.

British politics / The life and crimes of John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott

One more example of a working-class man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

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.

USA / Collapsing empire: RIP CIA front’s ‘overt operations’

The National Endowment for Democracy, a supposedly ‘non-governmental organisation’, is in reality an overt front for the CIA.

World history / Operation Gladio: How CIA/Nato carried out terrorist attacks in Italy

Despite these shocking facts having been exposed 30 years ago, and involving every European Nato government, they remain largely unknown outside of Italy.

Venezuela / Caracas congress: Make 2025 a milestone in the fight against fascism

Delegates also express firm support for Venezuela’s constitutionally elected popular president, Nicolás Maduro Moros.

Media / Twenty years after his death, Gary Webb’s truth is still dangerous

Systematic media lies destroyed the career of an honest journalist who committed the heinous crime of telling the truth.

Korea / On the events in Korea

As public anger against the comprador ruling elite rises, the USA is standing on very shaky ground in its east Asian colony.

French / Le rôle du gouvernement travailliste britannique et la réponse nécessaire des travailleurs

Spanish / El papel del gobierno laborista británico y la necesaria respuesta de los trabajadores

Mozambique / What’s going on in Mozambique?

US imperialism desperately wants to get its hands on the southeast African country’s graphite, but the Frelimo government stands in its way.

British politics / A brief history of British Trotskyism

A plethora of groups with one real purpose: to confuse and disgust the working masses and keep them away from genuinely revolutionary politics.

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’.

Mexico / Will Mexico be blackmailed to help destroy Cuba with blackouts?

The US regime is doing everything in its power to strangle the Cuban people, and to force the rest of the world to join in its genocidal economic warfare.

China / Ella Rule: What I learned in Xinjiang

Innovations abound as the Chinese region pushes ahead with its agricultural and industrial development.

World history / Albert Einstein’s address to the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, 1942

‘The tempo of Russia’s development in the last 25 years has been so tremendous that it has scarcely a parallel in history.’

Ukraine / Imperialism stumbles deeper into direct conflict with Russia in Ukraine

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

Americas / Trump elected as US president

And the USA’s political and economic crisis is likely to deepen further when it is seen how little of the longed-for change can be delivered from the White House.

USSR / Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 1

‘Much of Stalin’s youthful political style derived from that of his master and political exemplar, Lenin.’

Cuba / Cuban masses demand an end to brutal sanctions and US interference

Join with all progressive humanity in demanding an end to imperialism’s coercive measures. Let Cuba live!

France / France left without a government as Barnier falls

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

Korea / Massive strikes called as crisis deepens in occupied Korea

Underpinning the scandals around corruption and authoritarianism is the US imperialists drive to restart the Korean war.

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.

Korea / What’s going on in South Korea?

Why did the Yoon regime declare martial law, and why can we expect further attempts in the same vein?

Syria / The fall of Syria

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

Trade unions / Greek dockworkers block ammunition shipment to Israel

Greek and Indian dockers have given a lead. Transport workers around the world need to follow this example and refuse to cooperate with zionist war crimes.

Civil liberties / All eyes on the ‘enemy within’ – Prevent scheme targets dissenting children

British teachers are being tasked with the surveillance and intimidation of Palestine-supporting young people in schools and colleges.

Social wage / Your pension at work: the obscenity of ‘investment funds’

What does the case of the Merseyside Pension Fund tell us about how retirement is funded in Britain today?

Russia / Russian ambassador: October shaped the political, economic and social landscape

‘Turning to the lessons of a century ago is extremely important now that international relations are going through truly tectonic shifts.’

North Africa and Middle East / In Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen, resistance stands firm

Every attempt by the zionists to decapitate and demoralise the forces of liberation has backfired.

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.

Industry / Starmer government pushing fresh sell-off to hedge fund vultures

The Labour party grovels to Wall Street and the City of London.

USA / Persecution of the Uhuru 3 reveals limits of free speech in the USA

The case of the Uhuru 3 must be seen as part of a broader global counteroffensive against any form of opposition to Nato’s wars.

USA / Billionaire BlackRock CEO: ‘Doesn’t matter’ who wins US election

This notorious bankster’s observation highlights imperialism’s ability to maintain itself while distracting the masses with election circuses.

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.

Africa / Dakar declaration: Strengthen the anti-imperialist struggle

Under the banners of peace, antifascism, liberation and reunification, anti-imperialist forces are dealing heavy blows to the imperialists’ offensives.

Korea / DPRK response to drones being flown into Pyongyang by the southern puppets

‘The ROK has chosen self-destruction and is hastening its own doom.’

Lebanon / Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s legendary leader

Hezbollah’s long-time general secretary was a true anti-imperialist, understanding that only unity would liberate Palestine and the wider middle east.

India / Obituary: Comrade Sitaram Yechury

The former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) lived a life in service to the people.

World / The promise of Brics and the end of the ‘new world order’

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

Capitalist crisis / Why aren’t they taxing the rich?

While ‘patriotic millionaires’ consider a wealth tax a no-brainer, Labour party ‘socialists’ are horrified at the very thought.

Palestine / Expanded zionist aggression and the response of the resistance

Like all reactionary fools, the zionists and their imperialist masters believe that by murdering its top leaders they can put an end to the resistance.

Sri Lanka / A political earthquake in Sri Lanka

Can the new president overcome the country’s communal legacy, unite its people and set them on their way towards building a self-sufficient and prosperous future?

Palestine / Yahya Sinwar, child of the camps

Yahya Sinwar has been immortalised as a martyr in the righteous cause of liberating his people from a cruel and unjust occupation.

France / To French comrades: ‘We fight together for a communist future!’

The fake left would have us despair at victories that advance the cause of the working class.

British politics / Joti Brar interview: ‘We are links in the long chain of revolution’

Marx and Engels bequeathed essential values for every generation of revolutionaries: humility, service, dedication, discipline, sacrifice.

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’.

Education / Education union colluding with Labour against the workers

The NEU has thrown in the towel of struggle, betraying not only its own rank-and-file membership but also the wider interests of the working class.

Sport / The Paris Olympics: a spectacle of imperialist decadence

What were they thinking of? How the Paris Olympic Committee turned the 2024 opening ceremony into ‘one giant gay parade’.

Venezuela / USA punishes Venezuela for presidential election results with sanctions and theft

The ‘kidnapping’ of a Venezuelan government jet is just the latest act of piracy against a country that refuses to bend the knee to imperialist diktat.

Palestine / Ismail Haniyeh, another resistance leader assassinated by Israel

‘We shall not give in, no matter the sacrifices.’ The indomitable spirit of intifada continues.

North Africa and Middle East / Lies, damned lies, and the British ‘Labour’ party’s imperial propaganda

Keir Starmer vows his government will continue to ‘stand with Israel’ as the zionists seek to expand their genocidal war across the region.

Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

So where are the trade unions?

Jordan / Jordan boiling over as the Hashemite rulers continue to facilitate genocide

The killing of three Israeli border guards by a Jordanian truck driver has highlighted popular anger against the regime’s continued complicity.

Bangladesh / Another US coup topples the elected government of Bangladesh

All over south Asia, the USA is fomenting regime change operations as part of its drive to destroy China and reassert its global hegemony.

Civil liberties / It’s a free country, isn’t it?

On the creeping fascistisation of British society.

Books / Arun Som: translation genius who brought Soviet books to Bengali masses

After a decades-long pause, publishers in India are now reissuing Bengali translations of great Soviet works of literature and science in large numbers.

Palestine / Resistance stands firm in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen

As the Al-Aqsa Flood anniversary approaches, all the signs are that the zionist lunatics would rather drown the world in blood than admit defeat.

Korea / Stand with the People’s Democracy Party of south Korea against fascist repression!

The US-backed Yoon Suk-yeol regime is pushing the Korean colony ever closer to war with its northern neighbour.

Lebanon / Lebanese communists stand firm in the face of zionist terrorism

‘These terrorist attacks aim to intimidate the Lebanese people and force them to submit to the conditions of the zionist enemy and its US backer.’

World / Hundreds of legal experts push Biden to drop ‘punitive and deadly’ sanctions

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

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.

Society / Jury refuses to convict Palestine Action activists for arms factory damage

The state will continue to persecute Palestine solidarity activists through the legal system until such time as the organised working class forces it to stop.

USA / Is its national debt of 35 trillion dollars the USA’s greatest weakness?

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.

Sport / The Olympic Refugee Team has been subjected to political manipulation

The International Olympic Committee and UNHCR have become accomplices of the USA’s aggressive and criminal policy against Cuba

Civil liberties / Craig Murray on Richard Medhurst and the right to armed resistance

It is becoming easier to list the truly dissident UK journalists who have not been arrested for terrorism than those who have.

Palestine / Zionists, beaten in Gaza, pursue a wider conflict

The Palestinian struggle is the spearhead of the Arab people’s democratic revolution. It will not be quashed by imperialism or its flunkeys

Kenya / Kenyan youth rebellion against imperialist superexploitation

The youth of all tribes were at one in standing up against IMF-imposed austerity, all of them ready to lay down their lives in the struggle for justice.

USA / Thousands shut down the Capitol to protest Israel’s war crimes

American jews join direct action sit-in demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza.

Divide and rule / Riots and the awakening of class consciousness

Never is the capitalist class made more aware of the existential threat it faces than when confronted by the infinite power of a united working class.

British politics / Labour gets ready to implement the ‘Liz Truss’ (Jeremy Corbyn) lock

It is not unpopular leaders that worry our ruling class, but the possibility of a genuinely popular intervention in the country’s political life.

China / How a people’s government defeated a west-backed terrorist insurgency

The success achieved by removing the basis for radicalisation of poor workers shows the wisdom of China’s policy in Xinjiang.

India / Analysis: The Indian election result

BJP and Modi brought down to earth by an unconvinced electorate.

British politics / ‘Labour landslide’ election narrative hides deepening crisis of legitimacy

The ruling class pulled out all the stops to ensure a stable parliamentary majority for Labour, but it rests on very shaky ground.

Divide and rule / Class unity against fascism!

The Labour party has always sought to keep the working class divided along religious and racial lines. It remains part of the problem, not the solution.

Palestine / Lancet looks at Gaza genocide, finds official figures a massive underestimate

While western media report the official figures as if they are unreliably high, the truth is quite the reverse.

Palestine / ‘Hannibal directive’: western media covers up Israel’s mass murder of Israelis

Why is it now believed that more than half of those killed on 7 October were gunned down by their own side?

Divide and rule / How can we achieve unity of the working class against fascism?

We will never defeat racism by ‘uniting’ with the arch-racist Labour party. The job of real antiracists is to expose Labour’s support for fascism and war.

British politics / Professor David Miller on zionist control of the Labour party

When it comes to the Labour party the term ‘state capture’ is correct.

British politics / French greetings to our party: ‘a guiding light in the fight against capitalism’

‘Your courage and determination serve as a powerful reminder that a better world is not only possible but within our grasp.’

Ukraine / Ukraine’s new mobilisation law deepens demographic and economic crises

Ukrainians are fleeing the country and hiding out in basements as every able-bodied man unable to pay a bribe is relentlessly hounded to the front.

British politics / Benefit cap shock? Labour perfidy is nothing new

Those surprised by the Starmer’s contempt for the poor would do well to study the party’s 100-year history of anti-worker crimes in office.

Social wage / Media blames workers for the corruption and fraud endemic to capitalist society

It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital.

Korea / Russia-DPRK alliance marks a turning point for the anti-imperialist camp

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

South Africa / The unfinished liberation struggle in South Africa

Fulfilment of the 1955 Freedom charter, in particular land redistribution, remains the central demand of the poor black masses.

Media / Declassified UK: an ideological defence mechanism for a dying system

How the imperialists allow criticism of past offences in order to whitewash the crimes of the present.

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?

Mexico / Crushing election victory for the Morena party in Mexico

Amlo’s successor Claudia Sheinbaum faces many challenges, and the imperialists hope to pressure her into abandoning the poor.

Palestine / Israel’s path to self-destruction

Blinded by the flawed logic of its supremacist ideology, the zionist state is hurtling towards its doom.

World / Washington declaration: Build the worldwide Axis of Resistance!

The Nato imperialist alliance can be defeated by the combined forces of anti-imperialism.

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange is free at last!

Our press was never truly free, and today it is more incarcerated than ever.

China / Nina in Xinjiang: ‘We are moved by the confidence and joy of your children’

The transformative effect of a visit to China on a communist teacher from Britain.

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.

British politics / One communist’s perspective of a general election in Britain

A journey through the Corbyn project to the ranks of the revolutionary working class.

British politics / Election 2024: revisionists still propping up the Labour party

Even the CPB’s best theorists tie themselves in knots when trying to justify their party’s rotten position.

France / New Caledonia’s indigenous population demands freedom

The Kanak people are once more in revolt against the machinations of French imperialism.

Kenya / Kenya’s fight against tyranny: bloodshed and resistance in the fight for justice

Resign or be overthrown – this is the communists’ advice to Mr Ruto, the sworn enemy of the Kenyan people.

Palestine / All the weapons of the west

The imperialists are finding out to their cost that it is people, not weapons, that are ultimately decisive in war.

Russia / Russian ambassador: ‘The world is undergoing truly tectonic changes’

Celebrating Russia’s National Day with anti-imperialist friends in the heart of Foggy Albion.

Yugoslavia / Great advances for Yugoslav communists in Belgrade elections

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

British politics / No big winners in local elections – Sunak calls general election in a panic

As loyal servants of imperialism, the Tories would rather see masses of their MPs wiped out than a few antiwar candidates get into Parliament.

Russia / Vladimir Putin highlights ‘traditions of friendship and cooperation’ with DPRK

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

Health / Infected blood: another chapter in the book of Tory-Labour betrayals

As in the case of the Post Office, mistakes that could have been rectified were continued for years and then covered up.

Working-class history / Samuel Fielden: An English worker’s place in the origins of May Day

A vivid account of the horrors and poverty that abounded in working-class life on both sides of the Atlantic when capital had free reign and workers no rights.

Iran / President Raisi has died, but the Axis of Resistance lives on!

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

British politics / No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers!

We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.

Palestine / Depleted Israeli military on brink of collapse

Eight months into the most recent flaring up of the decades long conflict and Israel's military cannot match the unwavering resistance of the Palestinian masses.

Palestine / Kangaroo ICC orders the arrest of Israeli leaders: so what?

What does it signify that a toothless puppet body of the west has felt the need to indict zionist officials?

Pay and conditions / P&O boss admits he couldn’t live on the starvation wage paid to his workers

Toothless select committee hears how CEO agonised over accepting his £183k bonus after summarily dismissing 800 staff.

Yugoslavia / Serbian communists denounce UN resolution on Srebrenica

The falsifiers of history are at it again, this time insisting on holding the Serbian people responsible for imperialist crimes in the former Yugoslavia.

Palestine / The USA bears joint responsibility for the zionists’ Rafah holocaust

Those who arm and support the zionazis are as culpable as the occupation goons themselves for the heinous crimes being committed in Gaza.

Iran / Israel v Iran: The missiles of April

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories in the country’s modern history.

China / Yellen’s visit to Beijing: penny lectures from economic ignoramuses

The USA is outraged to find it no longer calls all the shots on its much-promoted world market.

Divide and rule / Immigrants make vital contributions to British pensions and welfare benefits

Population study shows that without the essential part played by immigrant workers, our pensions and social service provisions would collapse.

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.

Palestine / Nakba 76 – talk by Dr Ranjeet Brar

Join us to show your solidarity with the people of Palestine and remember their long history of struggle.

British politics / Tory Lord Cameron escalates tensions with Russia in Ukraine

The unelected foreign minister’s reckless sabre rattling on behalf of British imperialism has backfired badly.

Nicaragua / UN ‘investigates’ Nicaragua: human rights or capitalist wrongs?

Another example of a supposedly ‘international’ organisation doing the propaganda work of US imperialism.

Palestine / Zionist genocide continues in Gaza

Despite its barbaric and systematic slaughter of Palestinians, the zionist entity has never looked more fragile than it does today.

Education / Join the students: No cooperation with genocide in Gaza! Free Palestine!

Britain’s students are leading the way. The rest of the working class is duty bound to follow their lead.

Georgia / Georgia’s fight against US subversion and its implications

The imperialists are attempting to roll out their colour revolution playbook in Georgia, but many people are awake to the dangers of becoming the new Ukraine.

USA / Gaza resistance sparks youth revolt in the belly of imperialism

Scenes reminiscent of the anti-Vietnam war movement are playing out as US students refuse to stay silent in the face of academia’s complicity.

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.

Trade unions / Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions?

While crime after crime is committed against the people, those who should be organising the resistance are doing nothing.

USA / Naomi Klein: We need an exodus from zionism

This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

Health / Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers

The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.

Civil liberties / Assange extradition: where are the unions?

As an innocent man is tortured for the crime of exposing the criminals, British workers should be organising meaningful action in defence of all our rights.

Lay-offs and closures / Are we about to see the end of railway manufacture in Britain?

The government seems uninterested in diverting any of our public funds to this genuinely useful purpose.

Trade unions / Dockworkers in India take a collective stand against Gaza genocide

Indian trade unionists lead the way in boycotting Israeli arms shipments.

Haiti / Revolution in Haiti: US-imposed comprador regime in dire straits

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

Philippines / The Philippines’ political capture: former US colony, future proxy

The stooges doing Washington’s bidding in Manilla are putting their country on course to become the region’s Ukraine.

Korea / Stephen Cho: DPRK’s ‘subjugation’ stance and revolution in south Korea

South Korean revolutionary outlines the change in posture by north Korea towards the occupied southern state and its client regime.

Russia / Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

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

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.

Civil liberties / Latest twist on Assange’s extradition: cause for pessimism or optimism?

While an individualist view tends to despondence, there is a positive aspect to British imperialism’s blatant complicity in persecuting free speech.

World / Nicaragua joins South Africa at the ICJ in support of Palestine

The way that different countries have responded to the ongoing genocide in Gaza says everything about which interests their governments really represent.

Ukraine / The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine

A US citizen done to death by the US’s fascist proxies in Ukraine for the crime of telling the truth about Nato’s proxy war against Russia.

Media / John Pilger: the man they couldn’t silence

The most courageous, fearless and decent of journalists, who devoted his life to speaking the truth and uncovering imperialist lies.

Cuba / How unjust and cruel US sanctions impact Cuba’s health provision

The US’s inhumane blockade has severe impacts on the right to life and wellbeing of the Cuban people.

Civil liberties / Rochdale 1 Sunak 0: decoding Rishi’s meltdown

Ruling class in a panic over Gaza and gearing up for political policing as Rishi Sunak lashes out against ‘extremism’ and ‘threats to democracy’.

USA / Aaron Bushnell: The death of an honest man

‘What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.

Palestine / UN system in the dock: international law or rules-based order?

How much longer will the world’s people allow the zionists and their imperialist backers to carry out their horrific crimes with impunity?

Civil liberties / Women found guilty under terror laws for wearing a sticker at a demo

Another Orwellian attempt to use the courts to brand opponents of imperialist-backed terror as ‘supporters of terrorism’.

Civil liberties / Prof David Miller’s significant tribunal victory: anti-zionism is not racism!

A substantial fly in the ointment for those who are trying to criminalise all criticism of and opposition to zionist Israel and its blood-drenched British enablers.

USSR / Inspirational women: Spanish-born Soviet spy Colonel Africa de las Heras

An outstanding comrade who devoted her life to defending the Soviet Union in its battle against imperialism and imperialist-backed fascism.

Russia / Donbass liberation: Avdeyevka has fallen!

Even the western spinmeisters are waking up to the fact that nothing can prevent a Russian victory now.

Civil liberties / Journalist Graham Philips still being targeted by the British state

The British ruling class has a long tradition of persecuting those who work to shed light on inconvenient truths.

Palestine / The Palestinian resistance is changing the world

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

British politics / Galloway victory in Rochdale by-election reflects anger over Gaza genocide

The Workers party’s entry into the race transformed the northwestern by-election into a referendum on British complicity in Israeli war crimes.

Trade unions / Model motion: No cooperation with genocide in Palestine!

Trade unions must mobilise the organised power of the working class to force an end to British complicity in the zionists’ atrocities.

Social wage / Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism!

What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?

Africa / New alliance is a knock-out for Nato in the Sahel

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, by founding a new Alliance of Sahel States, have started a revolution in the continent’s geopolitics.

British politics / Tick. Tock. What did you do to stop the genocide in Gaza, Daddy?

I waited as long as possible, and then helped to empty an already toothless resolution of all its meaning, my son.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange’s final appeal against extradition from Britain to the USA

If the WikiLeaks editor is extradited to face trumped-up ‘treason’ charges in the USA, it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.

Argentina / His name is Cristian Díaz and his crime is supporting Palestine

In Argentina, as in Britain and Germany, workers in support of Palestine are being identified by zionists and targeted by the state.

Cuba / Cuban health workers vow to face down the genocidal US blockade

Solidarity must move on from the charitable aid mentality and work for the destruction of the imperialist system.

Civil liberties / Solidarity against police repression: Labour’s role in Gaza genocide

The Labour party’s control over movements of solidarity and ‘opposition’ in Britain is key to the present impotence of the working class.

Poetry / Poem for Gaza: They’re not like us though are they?!

Meanwhile, under the same sun, a team of exhausted men are pulling broken-limbed children from rubble.

Media / France: the new authoritarian journalism

How French media looked away from the suffering inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza.

France / Europe: the peasants’ revolt

What is at the root of the crisis in European farming?

Palestine / Jewish people condemn Israeli aggression and US complicity

‘Inevitably, oppressed people everywhere will seek – and gain – their freedom. We all deserve liberation, safety and equality.’

British politics / Workers’ blood must not be shed for the profits of capital

Where is all the recent talk about conscription coming from, and what does it tell us about the state of Britain’s capitalist economy?

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.

Civil liberties / Iranian Marxists in solidarity with our arrested comrades

‘When the imperialist governments fail to impede solidarity with the oppressed, they resort to suppression.’

Health / Vape wars: Children in the sights of tobacco giants

It seems unlikely that the British government has any real intention of stopping the corporate dope-pedlars in their tracks.

Trade unions / TUC launches fake ‘campaign to defend the right to strike’

A campaign most workers are unaware of, aimed not at overturning anti-worker legislation but at garnering votes for the perfidious Labour party.

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange: Day X is here

The case of Julian Assange reveals how little concern the bourgeoisie really has for ‘human rights’ and ‘civil liberties’.

Economy / Post Office scandal: Trouble on the Horizon

The power of monopoly laid bare: evidence reveals a picture of tampering with witness statements, falsifying data and coercing would-be whistleblowers.

World history / Who are the imperialists to accuse others of ‘terrorism’?

Thoughts on the barefaced hypocrisy and doublespeak of the real mass-murdering terrorists.

Civil liberties / Jury unanimously acquits Palestine Action’s Balfour 2 who defaced statue

Exposing the colonial legacy of Balfour, and Britain’s continued complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

Palestine / Ronnie Kasrils on South Africa parallels and the Palestinian liberation struggle

‘I support right of all oppressed people to resist, and to resist armed oppression with armed resistance,’ says former minister.

Iran / Who wants war with Iran?

War hawks in the USA are obsessed with the idea that ‘taking out’ Iran will destroy the Axis of Resistance. They are dead wrong.

Culture / Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed

From the miners’ strike to Palestine, this working-class poet and author was steadfast in his opposition to British imperialism and its divide-and-rule tactics.

Health / NHS: Murder by a thousand cuts

Excess avoidable deaths are rising alongside waiting lists for operations and GP consultations – and it is no coincidence.

Palestine / Samidoun: The plight of our prisoners is at the heart of our struggle

The centrality of the liberation of the prisoners to the liberation of Palestine has perhaps never been more clear than at this moment.

Yemen / Scott Ritter: USA ‘builds trap for itself’ in Red Sea

The US imperialist playground bully is being exposed as never before, and by a force far too few had hitherto taken seriously.

Palestine / Israeli far right’s plans for expulsion and expansion

While Joe Biden issues empty slogans about a ‘path to a Palestinian state’, zionists are trying to fulfil their dreams of a Greater Israel.

Palestine / Zionist slaughter of Palestinians will only hasten the demise of Israel

With 22,000 murdered and 52,000 wounded so far, the mass murder of civilians in Gaza has achieved nothing except the further weakening of the genocidaires.

Palestine / Gaza speaks: the zionists are failing despite their horrendous crimes

Palestinian resistance calls on the world to join the fight to stop the fascistic genocide and to send food and medical relief to the starving and wounded of Gaza.

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.

Industry / Grangemouth refinery workers’ jobs at risk

Why is Scotland’s main oil refining plant planning to become a mere import hub?

Chile / Remembering Joan Jara – dancer, activist and heroine of Chile

The wife of murdered folk singer Víctor Jara kept her husband’s legacy alive and never gave up the fight for justice for Chile’s disappeared.

Cuba / Cuba to international meet: Never before has world peace been so threatened

‘Division and sectarianism will always favour the interests of the forces representing international finance capital and counter-revolution.’

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?

Cyprus / Britain using its Cypriot base to aid Israeli genocide in Gaza

Cypriot workers condemn the use of their island by the imperialist powers, who use their territory to aid and abet the genocide of Palestinians.

Britain / Remembering Comrade Joyce Foster, founding member of our party

One of many unsung heroes of our movement – those workers whose commitment never falters no matter the ups and downs of our movement.

Argentina / Victory of Javier Milei reveals the failure of Argentina’s popular forces

How could a candidate with such an overtly anti-worker programme be elected by workers in dire economic straits?

Korea / Still fighting for Korea’s liberation: An interview with Comrade Ahn Hak-sop

‘In 1952, I came here to liberate the southern half of the peninsula, and I need to stay here and continue that struggle.’

Civil liberties / Get ready for Day X: Julian Assange must be freed!

British judges have shown themselves only too ready to allow our ‘justice system’ to be used to persecute an innocent man for the ‘crime’ of real journalism.

USA / The murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger

Kissinger’s amoral, genocidal crimes showed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life.

Cuba / Cuba emphasises connection between culture and revolutionary patriotism

‘In the multiplicity of forms in which our culture manifests itself, beyond the artistic and literary, lies the powerful force that sustains Cuba.’

British politics / The tasks of communists in the Palestine solidarity movement

We must awaken workers to the need to struggle not only against zionist Israel, but against the entire imperialist system.

Ireland / The Dublin riots

Why are so many on the left so quick to dismiss every outpouring of working-class rage as ‘mindless’ and ‘lumpen’?

Yemen / Heroic Yemenis capture Israeli ship, deal hefty economic blow to the zionist entity

Footage of the ship’s capture has gone viral and inspired resistance forces across the region.

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.

Palestine / Scott Ritter on the Al-Aqsa Flood battle

The operation launched by Palestinian resistance forces on 7 October was the most successful military raid of this century.

Economy / HS2: they should have gone to ChinaSavers!

What does it say about our decaying system that our rulers can spend decades debating and spending to deliver precisely nothing at the end of it?

Ukraine / Imperialists getting ready to ditch Zelensky

As they reach the bottom of the barrel of funds, weapons and manpower, the imperialists need a frontman who is capable of suing for peace.

Leaflets / Open letter to CPB: Give up the Labour party and take the revolutionary path

Sincere communists must make a serious appraisal of their work at this time of deepening crisis and renewed struggle.

Palestine / Two ‘British’ positions on Palestine

The latest wave of Israeli violence was unleashed in a frenzy of impotent but brutal rage after Palestinian resistance launched its historic Al-Aqsa Flood battle.

Education / British government stifles school debate on Gaza

As the imperialists continue their support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, schools are urged to play their part in complying with the murderous narrative.

Palestine / Mutiny at the BBC: ‘gravest possible concerns’ over Palestine coverage

The BBC’s own reporters are beginning to speak out about the corporation’s complicity in Israeli war crimes.

Palestine / Palestine Solidarity Campaign punishes Manchester branch

The PSC wants to keep pro-Palestine activism within the bounds considered acceptable by the pro-zionist establishment.

British politics / Starmer’s bad 90s remix – the Labour party ‘conference’

Sign of the times? Bourgeois politicians are no longer required to inspire the masses – only to prove their utter servility to the interests of British monopoly capital.

Pay and conditions / Scottish Water workers vote to strike

Bosses are trying to force the ‘modernisation’ of pay structures – ie, to enforce ever more draconian pay cuts on workers.

Palestine / Victory to the Palestinian resistance; no cooperation with zionist war crimes!

These are the slogans that need to permeate the solidarity movement in Britain and dictate its actions.

World / Joti Brar: How can workers learn the truth if everyone is too scared to tell it?

We must respect the workers enough to believe they are capable of learning and we must create opportunities for them to do so.

Haiti / Kick the Kenyan police thugs out of Haiti

Imperialists are assembling yet another proxy force to do their dirty work for them in the oppressed world.

Trade unions / Arms factory blockaded as calls for practical solidarity with Palestine grow

Non-cooperation with zionist Israel is firmly on the agenda. ‘The time to act is now.’

Trade unions / Mass non-cooperation urgently needed to help end Gaza blitzkrieg

Workers have power to prevent Britain’s continued military, propaganda and logistical support for zionist massacres.

Palestine / Students protest against Manchester university’s complicity in Gaza genocide

Graphene research helps Israel to develop the fighter jets, drones and other military systems now being put to such criminal use against the Palestinian people.

Libya / Libya dam collapse: ten thousand more avoidable deaths at Nato’s door

The ramifications from Nato’s barbaric blitzkrieg continue to unfold in Libya and across the region.

Palestine / The resistance fighters of Gaza have signalled the end of the zionist project

Cast about as it may, there is no way for Israel now to free itself from a hook that it baited itself.

Palestine / British complicity in Gaza massacre

Britain is dripping in the blood of Palestinian massacres, and the stain will never wash out.

Palestine / Authorities announce the collapse of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip

The true face of zionism revealed: a barbaric, fascistic, supremacist ideology that openly declares its aim of wiping out more than two million people in Gaza.

Ukraine / Book review: Putin’s Prisoner by Aiden Aslin

Ukraine and other war zones are seen as cash cows for the west’s publicity-seeking soldiers of fortune, who crave fame and adulation for their actions.

Korea / DPRK tells UN of its need to ‘urgently build up self-defence capabilities’

North Korean ambassador reports on the difficulties faced and overcome by people’s Korea and challenges the UN to live up to its supposed role.

Canada / ‘Sieg heil’ in the parliament of Canada

How did my country suddenly end up in the global headlines? What is the dirty secret that has been hidden in plain sight for so long?

France / Upholding anti-imperialist struggle under the flag of the Platform, herein lies our hope

French communists host international meeting to discuss the present crisis and the way forward.

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.

Palestine / Ilan Pappe to Israeli friends: This is why I support Palestinians

Our moral compass should point towards decolonisation and liberation, guiding us through the fog of poisonous propaganda, hypocrisy and inhumanity.

Palestine / PFLP: ‘Our people are in good shape; they will not raise the white flag’

Our resistance operation has destroyed the enemy’s security and defence strategies and dealt them a humiliating military and security defeat.

Palestine / Platform: ‘The fight of the Palestinians is integral to the fight of all humanity’

All anti-imperialists must stand firmly and unashamedly with the forces of resistance and national liberation.

Palestine / Israel can’t imprison two million Gazans without paying a cruel price

Gideon Levy reminds his Israeli readership of a truth that the imperialists and their proxies ignore at their peril: oppression breeds resistance.

Canada / Association of United Ukrainian Canadians condemns honouring of Nazis

The fascist-aligned section is vocal and prominent, but Yaroslav Hunka does not represent all Canadians of Ukrainian origin.

History / Rewriting history, rehabilitating nazism

All those who ever wondered how the Nazis’ crimes could have been allowed to happen only need to watch our western politicians and media today.

Palestine / Defiant Gaza: the reasons for resistance are clear

One is reminded of the daring and contempt for death shown by the South African people, who also confronted the enemy with guns in hand.

Leaflets / Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!

The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.

History / ‘The lessons of history …’

No matter how carefully our environment is manipulated, in the end, truth will out.

Palestine / Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!

The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.

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

Ukraine / Zelensky sidelined, Canada’s Nazi gaffe and Biden struggling to change tack

As a third Ukrainian army perishes to no avail, now even the west is looking thin of donors when Zelensky rattles the collecting tin.

Disputes / Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS!

The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom.

Venezuela / Iran-Venezuela cooperation: another blow to imperialist economic warfare

With one third of the world’s countries now subject to some kind of sanction, this favoured tool of coercion is fast losing its power.

China / Aymeric Monville: Report back from Xinjiang

A French communist reflects on the yawning gulf between reality on the ground and the propaganda lies being endlessly repeated in western media.

Ukraine / Is Washington preparing to hang its stooge Zelensky out to dry?

As well as losing its proxy war against Russia, Washington is also losing control of the propaganda war.

Health / Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’

Economy / Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires

Vulture capitalists are not ‘bad apples’ – they are the inevitable product of a system in deep and permanent crisis and decline.

China / How China is developing mass involvement in local governance

The CPC is working at the local level to build social cohesion and stability, deepening its connections with the people.

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.

Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

Trade unions / Joti Brar: a personal account of anti-war struggle against the trade union bureaucracy

Why is it so hard to get anything meaningful done via the existing trade union mechanisms?

Ukraine / With depleted uranium, nuclear war is underway in Europe

Nato war crimes in Donbass don’t stop at DU; Donbass civilians are routinely targeted by cluster bombs and petal mines.

Trade unions / Who is behind the TUC motion asking British workers to support war crimes?

It’s not too late to reverse the disastrous decision taken by many union delegations and the bureaucratic leadership clique to support this criminal resolution.

Capitalist crisis / Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers

The energy regulators work, just not for workers.

Lay-offs and closures / ‘Post-socialist mortality crisis’ proves that deindustrialisation kills

The ruling classes stir up populism amongst deindustrialised populations in order to try to persuade workers to pin the blame for their hardship onto other workers.

Ukraine / Ukraine: Is the USA changing proxies in midstream?

With the counteroffensive proven to be a dead duck, all the ‘friends’ of Ukraine who egged it on to an impossible ‘victory’ are blaming the proxies for losing the war.

China / Isabel Crook: a long life of devotion and service to the Chinese people

Living in China for almost all of her 107 years, Isabel devoted her considerable energies to serving the people – and to the international cause of socialist revolution.

Industry / Air traffic out of control

Who is to blame for the recent mayhem in the skies?

Britain / The collapse of Wilko

Wilko stores across the country are expected to close over the next few weeks with the chain struggling to find a buyer.

Capitalist crisis / Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!

Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.

Capitalist crisis / Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution

Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?

Trade unions / Which way forward for the trade unions now?

It is time to break out of suffocating ‘unity’ with those who serve our class enemies.

China / Ella Rule: ‘Xi Jinping’s call to strengthen the party comes at the right moment’

The ‘US-led world order’ will use all its very considerable economic, military and propaganda means to oppose China’s rise.

USA / Book review: War made Invisible by Norman Solomon

A masterful insight into the mechanisms that hide the US’s constant state of war from its own citizens.

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.

Afghanistan / Eighty Afghan civilians summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told

A ‘systematic pattern of unlawful extrajudicial killings’ highlights the routine nature of war crimes committed by British occupiers in Afghanistan.

Spanish / Son las armas nucleares de Estados Unidos las que amenazan al mundo

El imperialismo es la causa fundamental de la inestabilidad y la guerra en el mundo. Los coreanos tienen razón para defenderse.

Korea / It is not north Korean but US nuclear weapons which threaten the world

Imperialism is the root cause of instability and war in the world. Koreans are right to defend themselves.

Trade unions / Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail?

Teaching union NEU led its members into months of strike action, only to capitulate and accept a below-inflation pay rise. Why?

Civil liberties / Irish republicans challenge sinister ‘debanking’ strategy

‘We will have your house; if you keep going, we will have your car, we will have your kids, we will have your benefits and we will put you in jail.’

Ukraine / Russia, Donbass and the reality of the conflict in Ukraine

If westerners understood what was really happening, they would think twice about ‘standing with’ and continuing to arm Ukraine.

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.

Ireland / End internment of Irish republicans now

Why are Irish republicans still being imprisoned without charge by British courts, 25 years after the initiation of the peace process?

Civil liberties / France in flames after yet another racist police murder

The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers.

Ireland / Landmark judgment finds murdered Irish teen was blameless

The wheels of justice? War crimes committed by the British occupiers in northern Ireland fifty years ago are only now being officially acknowledged.

Baltics / Ukraine: Nato slams the door

The Vilnius summit was supposed to be a show of strength. Instead, it highlighted the weakness at the heart of the imperialist alliance.

Peru / Peruvians take over Lima, continuing to pressure Boluarte coup regime

Seven months in and, in the face of brutal state repression, the people of Peru continue their struggle against the neoliberal dictatorship of the US-backed junta.

Korea / South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death

Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder.

Civil liberties / Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage

The targeting of such a pro-imperialist figure is a warning to all those who might engage in acts of dissent against the establishment.

Health / Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise

How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity?

British politics / Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom

Police brutality, national-liberation struggles and socialist revolutions: Tongagara supported every serious struggle against racism and oppression around the world.

British politics / As Ukraine bleeds, British defence minister looks to a new life

Those eagerly packing Ukrainians off to fight for Nato can tend their gardens and sleep well in their warm beds, impunity guaranteed.

Health / An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation

The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.

Capitalist crisis / EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership

Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!

China / Reflections on a visit to China and its path to modernisation

Whilst western ‘democracies’ focus on elections every four years, the CPC aims to prioritise ‘confidence in its democracy and in the guiding philosophy of Marxism’.

Ukraine / Stop the War’s capitulation hides truth about Ukraine, stops workers organising

It is time we in Britain got off our knees and organised a mass movement of real opposition to the imperialist war drive.

Ireland / What exactly is the Orange Order celebrating?

Why is a protestant militia, founded in 1795 to combat the influence of the Enlightenment and maintin colonial rule, still marching in Irish streets?

Spanish / Joti Brar: Nos anima e inspira el espíritu de lucha de los trabajadores franceses

Joti Brar, vicepresidenta del Partido Comunista de Gran Bretaña – Marxista Leninista (CPGB-ML), concedió una entrevista exclusiva a Iniciativa Comunista.

French / Nous sommes encouragés et inspirés par la combativité des travailleurs français

Les plus forte grève depuis 30 ans : « Les travailleurs ont la volonté de lutter pour les salaires ».

Economy / Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close?

Having paid a fortune to private investors for years, the British public must now pay again to bail out indebted utilities and clean up the horrific mess they have made.

Civil liberties / Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

Human rights in Britain? What human rights?

Japan / Japan to release radioactive wastewater into the Pacific despite regional alarm

Atomic agency to approve Fukushima discharge amid allegations of bribes and widespread environmental concerns.

Palestine / Palestinians are prohibited from defending against violent aggression

Why aren’t Palestinians allowed to defend themselves?

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.

Russia / Prigozhin’s failed mutiny

Collective west hopes dashed once more, as President Putin remains firmly in charge and Russia’s military continues to grind down Nato’s proxies in Ukraine.

Education / Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned

Students are being milked like cash cows, while the vice-chancellors who facilitate this profiteering enjoy huge salaries and perks.

Health / Why does Russia now believe that Covid-19 was a US-created bioweapon?

Evidence released from secret biolabs in Ukraine reveals the deeper secret of imperialist attempts to create targeted biological weapons.

Trade unions / Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left

As the next election approaches, supposedly ‘radical’ trade unionists are lining up obediently behind Starmer and Labour, against the interests of their members.

Russia / Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south

Russian foreign minister tells press: ‘The west has a colonial approach to Russia; they are incapable of seeing us as equal partners.’

Korea / Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase

Workers in Britain could learn much from our Korean comrades, but they are unlikely to realise that from listening to Palin’s arrogant commentary.

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

A new name for an old imperialist game.

Pay and conditions / Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.

Trade unions / Derby Silk Mill commemorations 2023: no communists allowed

How did the CPB appoint itself the gatekeeper of the British working-class movement?

Environment / The biggest threat to the environment is the imperialist war machine

While lecturing workers about ‘consumer choices’, western environmental lobbies give a free pass to the planet’s real polluters.

British politics / Why is Britain so set on escalating the war in Ukraine?

Tanks, depleted uranium shells, long-range missiles, F16s: hardly a week goes by without some news of how Britain is upping the ante again.

British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

Environment / Ecology without class struggle is gardening!

Our planet can only be saved by scientific planning of human production and economic activity, taking into account all the consequences for nature.

Russia / EVENT: Book launch: Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia

What is really happening in Ukraine? And what should antiwar activists be doing about it?

Russia / Who blew up the Kakhovka dam?

With Ukraine’s ‘offensive’ failing, and the western psyop brigade keen to talk about everything except battlefield realities, it is not hard to see who benefits.

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.

Trade unions / Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war

Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level.

Trade unions / Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis

Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.

Trade unions / Model motion: Defy the anti-trade union laws

Within the current legal framework, workers’ right to strike in Britain has been all but annulled. This situation must be reversed by means of collective action.

Trade unions / Model motion: Break the link with Labour

The essential precondition for a successful struggle for decent pay is that our unions must break their connection with the imperialist Labour party.

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.

Pollution / Demand renationalisation of the water system without compensation

Growing public outrage has forced a mealy-mouthed apology from Water UK, but the profiteers deserve jail sentences, not a wrist-slapping.

Ukraine / Zelensky piling up his millions as Nato tries regime change via assassination

Washington continues to stoke the fire in Ukraine, but the blowback may refuse to remain safely in Europe.

Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

Trade unions / The real trade union barons

Having been absorbed into the fabric of the state machine, most trade union leaders now work not to aid but to suppress their members’ struggles.

Venezuela / Venezuela: Blockade and plunder

How the imperialists use theft and sanctions to try to force regime change in countries that defy their diktat.

Palestine / Free Palestine; end zionism!

No matter what weapons have been used against them, the Palestinians have resisted attempts to wipe them out for 75 years, and will continue to do so.

Korea / Remembering the 1980 armed uprising against imperalism in Gwangju, Korea

The spirit of Gwangju still burns bright amongst large sections of the Korean people, who yearn to reunite their country and free it from colonial rule.

France / The French working class fights on

Already there have been isolated instances of gendarmes refusing to obey orders. If the cotagion spreads, will the rest of Macron’s state machinery be more reliable?

Jamaica / The human cost of bauxite-alumina mining in Jamaica

Another example of monopoly looting with no care for the consequences to people or environment.

Palestine / Zionists step up their efforts to ethnically cleanse the West Bank of Palestinians

The extreme fascism of the Israeli state is now clearly revealed – and a sign that the whole colonial endeavour is careering headlong towards the abyss.

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?

China / US imperialism’s militarisation of Taiwan

Continued attempts to use the island province as a battering ram against China must be vigorously opposed.

British history / Twenty years later: the predatory imperialist war against Iraq

While the heroic resistance was defeating US and British imperialist forces, the British working class was effectively demobilised by its corrupted leadership.

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.

Working-class history / Long live May Day!

Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

North Africa and Middle East / The quiet revolution: peace breaking out all over the middle east

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

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’.

Russia / Zyuganov to Putin: ‘Form a patriotic front against the imperial west!’

Communist leader urges Russian president to reunite the country’s greatest heroes with the people.

Palestine / The ‘incremental genocide’ of the Palestinians continues

Ilan Pappe: it is high time the seventy-year project of extermination of Palestinians should be internationally recognised as a genocide.

Peru / Solidarity with the people of Peru!

As in Bolivia, the people are resisting a US-backed coup that has removed their elected president and replaced him with a fascistic comprador.

Pollution / ULEZ: a green greed initiative

Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit.

Divide and rule / Anti-immigration propaganda stirs up anger and rioting in Knowsley

As the cost of living crisis brings suffering to workers, our rulers are once again using immigration to distract from their failures.

Syria / Natural disaster in Syria and Turkey: a tale of two earthquakes

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

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.

China / China sets out new foreign policy approach: oppose US unilateralism

The CPC has officially acknowledged that the ‘agreement incapable’ USA is set on hegemony and confrontation.

British politics / The Labour left still lost in its labyrinth

Starmer’s refusal to allow Corbyn to rejoin Labour has highlighted the true loyalties of the party’s supposed ‘left-wingers’.

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.

USA / Message to US workers: Britain sending depleted uranium to Ukraine

The imperialists can seem incredibly powerful, but in fact their dominance is declining and their rule is showing signs of senility and decay.

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.

China / Is China the target of the greatest propaganda campaign in human history?

How can we resist the rising tide of sinophobia when there is so little printed or spoken about China by western media and politicians that actually reflects reality?

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.

Palestine / Israeli persecution of Palestinians taken to a new level in January

The zionists have seemed to get away with their crimes untouched for 75 years, but every sign is that this experiment in fascistic colonialism is doomed.

USA / Why is the BLM movement so quiet about the murder of Tyre Nichols?

Racial oppression can only meaningfully be fought by a united working class against the capitalist state that seeks to divide and keep us down.

USSR / Glory to the heroes of Stalingrad!

This titantic achievement of the socialist Soviet Union is one the imperialists are incapable of erasing or explaining away.

Trade unions / NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.

Africa / France is losing its dominance in west Africa

Chinese economic and Russian military assistance are enabling the region to finally break its neocolonial bonds.

Germany / Scholz visits Biden as USA works to bury the truth about Nord Stream

Will Washington test the anti-Putin coalition to destruction?

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.

Media / Look, balloons! The Hollywoodisation of imperialist ‘news’ media

Hyperbolic reportage of the ‘spy balloons’ story was a perfect example of how the ‘infotainment’ industry works to distract and confuse.

Korea / DPRK pledges firm support for Russia

Kim Yo Jong affirms her country’s solidarity while highlighting the futile criminality of the USA’s proxy war in Ukraine.

France / Strikes in France demonstrate the benefits and limits of trade union action

Why are French workers being forced to endlessly fight the same battles?

Venezuela / Caracas declaration: Latin America’s vital role in the world anti-imperialist struggle

Nato’s armies must be defeated on the battlefield and behind the lines.

Trade unions / After the strikes, what then?

As union leaders look for the exit, their members’ anger is being directed towards yet another diversionary ‘vote Labour’ campaign.

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.

Education / Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’

This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.

Palestine / Israel elections – even more racism and even nastier fascists

The utter degeneracy of the zionist polity is just one of many signs that Israel’s days are numbered.

Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

Social wage / Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill

Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone.

Venezuela / British delegate in Caracas: ‘Facing the same enemy, we must fight together’

The world’s anti-imperialist forces are coming together in a way that has not been seen for 70 years.

USA / Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit

A broad coalition of those who really want to stop the US war machine faces silence from the media and insults from the ‘left’.

Working-class history / Jenny Marx’s life of struggle and sacrifice in the cause of the working class

A tribute to the woman who made a vital yet routinely overlooked contribution to the founding of scientific socialism.

Divide and rule / Sound and fury: the hollowness of the woke v anti-woke debate

Workers have no interest in perpetuating bourgeois-incited culture wars. What we need is a clear understanding of how these harmful ideas destroy our ability to unify.

Germany / Nord Stream sabotage – Seymour Hersh’s revelations

Corporate media are doing what they can to quash discussion of the USA’s attack on its ally, but the fall-out from this detailed exposé is destined to be far-reaching.

Ukraine / Defeats in the front line spark chaos in the Kiev junta

Even as their proxies are collapsing at the front and behind the lines, the USA and its EU allies are pressing on with their plans to carve up Russia.

Australia / Murdoch propaganda pushes Australia: double military budget to fight China

The time to start resisting is now.

Civil liberties / Police officer David Carrick’s campaign of rape: a bad apple or a rotten barrel?

News that the Met will now reopen the cases of a thousand officer complaints would seem to answer the question.

Media / On the media of ‘Russiagate’ and related fake stories

The last shred of mainstream journalistic integrity has been destroyed by the revelation that every part of the relentless Russiagate media barage was false.

British politics / Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

Demonstrations are dead-end get-togethers without the leadership of a vanguard revolutionary party. Iraq, Occupy – where are you now?

Argentina / Lawfare in Latin America: the case of Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner

Corruption of a nominally-independent country’s justice system is a major tool in the arsenal of imperialist control.

USA / Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

The spectre of communism haunts the US Congress 175 years later.

Germany / The truth about the war in Ukraine – straight from the horse’s mouth

Retired German general lays out a few key facts for the hard of learning.

Germany / How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline

The New York Times called it a ‘mystery’, but the truth is that the United States executed a covert sea operation against its own allies.

Housing / Poor housing kills

The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.

Cuba / Cuban president: ‘We must strengthen the integration of Our America’

Heads of Latin-American and Caribbean countries agree to reinforce economic and political cooperation that can help free their peoples from US domination.

Pay and conditions / Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise

An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.

Yugoslavia / Oppose western pressure on Serbia to recognise the Kosovo province as a state

The imperialists are still pursuing their 30-year campaign to forcibly disintegrate and occupy the territories of the former Yugoslavia.

Americas / EVENT: Drive to war in the Americas: Disband Nato; Yankees go home!

As the reckless imperialist war drive threatens every corner of the globe, the World Anti-Imperialist Platform is bringing its focus to Latin America.

Greece / Athens conference: anti-imperialist unity in the Balkans is pivotal for all of Europe

Only by standing together can workers and oppressed peoples find the strength to defeat Nato’s bestial neo-nazi war machine.

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.

Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?

Capitalist crisis / Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

Yemen / Yemen’s quest for self-determination continues unabated

Despite conditions of siege and war, the Yemeni people are finding ways to lay the foundations of a diversified and more self-sufficient economy.

USA / The US ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ – blatant protectionism

US monopolies are hoping to survive the present crisis at the expense of their rivals, but alienating all their allies will ultimately only hasten their demise.

Civil liberties / Communists condemn cancellation of WPB anti-Nato meeting by Conway Hall

The Conway Hall Ethical Society’s craven submission to ‘online intimidation’ gives the lie to its claim to uphold free speech.

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.

Italy / Remembering the history and achievements of Italy’s communists

The militant and heroic legacy of our movement is much needed as an inspiration for the struggle that faces us today.

Peru / Solidarity with the people of Peru against US aggression

Another president falls to a US-backed coup in Latin America – but the people are not taking it lying down.

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.

Capitalist crisis / Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt

Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.

Ukraine / Bakhmut: Russia breaches crucial Ukrainian defence line

With Ukraine’s defeat in this pivotal battle now certain, western media are rushing to assure their audiences the town holds no significance.

China / Covid: China changes gear

As the People’s Republic moves on from the era of zero-Covid, western media are desperate to portray its decision as a sign of failure.

Philippines / Jose María Sisón, father of the Filipino revolution

Tribute to a long life lived in the service of the liberation of humanity.

Iran / Iran and the western-manufactured hijab protests

Attempts to cast imperialist countries as champtions of women’s rights are laughable to anyone familiar with the declining position of women in the west.

Science and technology / Microchips and monopoly: a new front in the global struggle

What is the significance of the USA's quest to repatriate the complex chain of semiconductor production?

Peru / Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup

Can the anger and energy of the Peruvian masses be channelled so as to realise their dreams of liberty and socialism?

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.

Capitalist crisis / Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’

What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?

Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

Qatar / Qatar at the crossroads?

Can US pressure force Qatar to sever its economic ties to Iran and Russia?

Health / The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.

Climate change / What a Cop-out!

Even the most inveterate supporters of capitalism have been forced to admit that the UN’s climate mechanism has been taken over by the oil lobby.

Capitalist crisis / Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas

Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!

Pollution / Britain’s dire water situation is no joke

Privatisation has stolen over £60bn from essential services, leaving the country to wallow in its own filth.

Yugoslavia / Anti-imperialist conference: Nato’s war drive threatens to engulf Europe

Rather than admitting defeat, the imperialists are doing everything possible to prolong and extend the war in eastern Europe.

Australia / Racist persecution of Aborigines in Australia continues unabated

A culture of torture has been exposed in Australia’s penal system, facilitated by the dehumanisation embedded into every level of the state machinery.

Ethiopia / Ethiopian peace talks begin as rebel Tigrayans suffer military setbacks

Will this African nation be allowed to settle its own future without any further interference?

Brazil / Can Lula get Brazil back on track?

Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour.

Turkey / Iran and Turkey hit Washington’s Kurdish proxies in Iraq and Syria

Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists.

Capitalist crisis / Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.

British politics / What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?

It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want?

Argentina / What is behind the attempted murder of vice-president Cristina Kirchner?

US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.

Nicaragua / Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua!

Once again, the USA wants to starve an entire people into submission, simply because they have asserted their right to economic and political independence.

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.

Colombia / Colombian president Gustavo Petro walking the tightrope of ‘total peace’

Will the new government be allowed to implement its social programmes to address the damage from decades of US-backed terrorism and war?

China / Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’

The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.

Divide and rule / Tribute to Comrade Avtar Jouhl

An indefatigable fighter against racism and imperialism, and for socialism, which he knew held the only solution to humanity’s problems.

Russia / British armed forces planned terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge

Like the fool of ancient Chinese fable, the imperialists continue to lift rocks that merely break their own feet.

Disputes / Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!

It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.

Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

Brazil / Lula is back!

With so much hope pinned on his new government, will his ministers be able to resist the push from global financiers insisting on ‘fiscal prudence’ (ie, on austerity)?

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.

Environment / Environmentalists: time to look your gift horse in the mouth

The misguided actions of the environmentalist movement are annoying workers and harming the aims they espouse.

Ukraine / Ukraine referenda: Russians exercise their right to self-determination

From now on, attacks or threats against these safeguarded territories will be dealt with as attacks against any other part of Russia.

British politics / Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks

No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.

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.

Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

Russia / West uses Putin’s birthday to ramp up demonisation and personal attacks

But despite all the baseless allegations, reality is stubbornly resistant to imperialist propaganda.

Europe / Liz Truss’s message to the USA seconds after the Nord Stream attack: ‘It’s done’.

The former prime minister’s leaked iPhone messages convince Russia that British forces blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

Azerbaijan / Azeri chauvinism used by imperialists to set Russia’s borders on fire

War has broken out again between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but who does it really benefit?

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.

Media / Inside the world of imperialist mind control

The upside-down world of corporate media lies: how fairy tales and disappearing facts keep workers in ignorance and fear.

Africa / African trust in Russia grows as western influence wanes

The growing strength of the anti-imperialist block, anchored by Russia and China, is sending tremors of fear and panic through western corridors of power.

Energy / Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: fracking is back on the agenda

Whichever way they turn, Truss and co are tying themselves in knots trying to escape the Gordian knot of the energy and inflation crises.

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.

Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange!

The chilling persecution of honest journalism has only highlighted the unfreedom of bourgeois society and the lies and complicity of imperialist corporate media.

Germany / Pipeline terrorism: Who benefits?

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

China / Joti Brar on the history and future of the Chinese communist party

‘The stronger China becomes industrially, technologically and militarily, the more it is able to help poorer countries break free of the stranglehold of debt slavery.’

Health / Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking

Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.

Haiti / Protests erupt in Haiti against corrupt comprador government

Ruthless political suppression and rampant superexploitation by US monopoly capital continue to drive social unrest in the island nation.

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.

British politics / Farewell to Eric Levy

A lifelong antirevisionist and anti-imperialist fighter who never failed to act on his beliefs and never gave up his faith in the socialist future of humanity.

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?

Iraq / ‘Normalising’ relationships with Israel now carries the death penalty in Iraq

A new law may force Iraqi politicians to put their money where their mouth is on the question of Palestine solidarity and anti-imperialism.

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.

Ukraine / Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!

As part of its suppression of political activity, the Ukrainian stooge regime has banned communist organisations and imprisoned their leaders.

Korea / US-south Korean war games are fuelling the drive towards war in the Pacific

The USA and its south Korean stooges are recklessly stoking the flames of war on the Korean peninsula by staging DPRK invasion and nuclear strike rehearsals.

China / Outrageous ‘assessment of human rights concerns’ in Xinjiang by UN commission

Solidarity with the people of China, being subjected to abhorrent and baseless accusations as part of the imperialists’ relentless drive to war.

Trade unions / Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands

With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’

Disputes / Amazon workers against Victorian working conditions and derisory pay

Despite unions being banned by Amazon, its British staff have been staging wildcat actions in defence of their right to decent pay and conditions.

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.

Netherlands / The Dutch farmers’ militant struggle

How can the needs of the people to eat and their need to live in a clean and stable environment both be met?

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.

Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

World / Support for USA’s proxy war in Ukraine draining as true cost dawns on the world

Meanwhile, the Russian targets of the present war front remain unbroken and unbowed – and headed for a decisive victory.

Social wage / Malthusianism is alive and well as feminists celebrate declining birth rate

Since they cannot admit to a solution lying outside of capitalist production relations, ‘women’s rights’ advocates are reduced to prettifying their chains.

Capitalist crisis / Families face energy bills topping £5,000 this autumn

Privatisation of the energy industry has put Britons at the mercy of world market prices – and no bourgeois party has a clue what to do about it.

Media / Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world ... ‘again’.

Disputes / Support the postal workers!

Workers at Royal Mail are joining those on the railways and the docks in standing up for pay and conditions.