Imperialism fails the Covid test

Germany highlights

Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

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

12 May 2021 , Lalkar
USA / Joe Biden can’t rebuild the bridges burnt by Donald Trump

Liberal commentators are heaving sighs of relief and hoping for a return to ‘business as usual’, but the days of US global dominance are ending.

21 Jan 2021 ,
Russia / On the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny

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

22 Sep 2020 , Proletarian

Environment / Bayer AG forced to pay over $10bn to settle cancer claims

A US court has unexpectedly agreed that Roundup does indeed cause cancer – and awarded unprecedented damages to victims.

5 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
Film and TV / Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

14 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
Europe / How the EU is demolishing pensions

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

2 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
Europe / Anniversary of the D-Day landings

Why are the imperialists so keen to push the lie that the Normandy landings changed the course of WW2?

23 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
World history / The origins of World War Two

How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

11 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
Germany / Buchenwald camp bans memorial for one of its most famous victims

Ernst Thälmann was a role model for unbroken resistance to Nazi terror, even under the most brutal conditions.

3 Aug 2019 ,
USSR / Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

As the dystopian reality of bourgeois exploitation and ‘democracy’ hits home, Stalin and communism are viewed with respect and longing.

26 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
Economy / Britain lobbies Germany to sell arms to the Saudis

Crocodile tears over the famine in Yemen are accompanied by strenuous lobbying on behalf of the corporations that are perpetuating it.

27 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
Germany / The events of Chemnitz and the role of (east) German fascism

How is it that there are riots against immigrants in the heart of the former German socialist republic?

23 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
Germany / On the election result in Germany

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

1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
Germany / On the New Year’s Eve events in Germany

Racism will not be ended by political correctness, but by a united working-class movement for socialism.

1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian

Germany video

Theory TV / Friedrich Engels: founding father of scientific socialism

20 Dec 2020,
History TV / WW2: The 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism

What transformed WW2 from an interimperialist war into an anti-fascist one? Who really beat the Nazis and liberated Europe?

22 Jul 2019,
History TV / Through Hell for Hitler: reminiscences of a WW2 German soldier

Harpal Brar interviews Nazi soldier turned British communist Henry Metelmann about his life and what brought him to join the struggle for socialism.

28 Mar 2012, Proletarian TV

Germany theory

Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

12 Mar 2019, Lalkar

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Deprivation, anger and fear behind loyalist riots in northern Ireland

Poor protestants are responding to a sense of alienation and being left behind. The question they will need to answer is: to what and to whom are they ’loyal’?
2
Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger
3
Ten years on from the Jasmine revolution, the masses are moving again
4
Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union
5
The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
6
Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
7
Mao Zedong on contradiction
8
Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back
9
Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend
10
Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

Germany highlights

Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

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

USA / Joe Biden can’t rebuild the bridges burnt by Donald Trump

Liberal commentators are heaving sighs of relief and hoping for a return to ‘business as usual’, but the days of US global dominance are ending.

Russia / On the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny

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

Environment / Bayer AG forced to pay over $10bn to settle cancer claims

A US court has unexpectedly agreed that Roundup does indeed cause cancer – and awarded unprecedented damages to victims.

Film and TV / Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

Europe / How the EU is demolishing pensions

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

Europe / Anniversary of the D-Day landings

Why are the imperialists so keen to push the lie that the Normandy landings changed the course of WW2?

World history / The origins of World War Two

How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

Germany / Buchenwald camp bans memorial for one of its most famous victims

Ernst Thälmann was a role model for unbroken resistance to Nazi terror, even under the most brutal conditions.

USSR / Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

As the dystopian reality of bourgeois exploitation and ‘democracy’ hits home, Stalin and communism are viewed with respect and longing.

Economy / Britain lobbies Germany to sell arms to the Saudis

Crocodile tears over the famine in Yemen are accompanied by strenuous lobbying on behalf of the corporations that are perpetuating it.

Germany / The events of Chemnitz and the role of (east) German fascism

How is it that there are riots against immigrants in the heart of the former German socialist republic?

Germany / On the election result in Germany

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

Germany / On the New Year’s Eve events in Germany

Racism will not be ended by political correctness, but by a united working-class movement for socialism.

Germany topics

Germany video

Theory TV / Friedrich Engels: founding father of scientific socialism

History TV / WW2: The 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism

What transformed WW2 from an interimperialist war into an anti-fascist one? Who really beat the Nazis and liberated Europe?

History TV / Through Hell for Hitler: reminiscences of a WW2 German soldier

Harpal Brar interviews Nazi soldier turned British communist Henry Metelmann about his life and what brought him to join the struggle for socialism.

Germany theory

Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

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