Proletarian

Prol 112: February 2023

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

No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws!

27 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

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

30 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

25 Jan 2023 , Proletarian

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.

18 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
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.

19 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
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!

24 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
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.

17 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
Qatar / Qatar at the crossroads?

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

31 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
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.

20 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
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.

8 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
Media / BBC’s crocodile tears over ‘mass graves’ in Mariupol are a sick farce

Another example of the way that fabricated ‘news’ aims to baffle rather than inform, and to get workers onside for the imperialist war drive.

16 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
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.

15 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
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.

31 Jan 2023 , Marx 21
Yugoslavia / British delegates in Belgrade: Nato is trying to expand the war in Europe

The imperialists desperately hope they can win out in the end by wearing Russia down and causing her economy and society to collapse.

18 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
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.

2 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
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.

17 Dec 2022 , Proletarian

Prol 112: February 2023

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

No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws!

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

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

Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Qatar / Qatar at the crossroads?

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

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.

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.

Media / BBC’s crocodile tears over ‘mass graves’ in Mariupol are a sick farce

Another example of the way that fabricated ‘news’ aims to baffle rather than inform, and to get workers onside for the imperialist war drive.

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.

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.

Yugoslavia / British delegates in Belgrade: Nato is trying to expand the war in Europe

The imperialists desperately hope they can win out in the end by wearing Russia down and causing her economy and society to collapse.

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.

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.

Prol 112: February 2023 topics