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.

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?

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.

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.

China / Ella Rule: What I learned in Xinjiang

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

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.

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

So where are the trade unions?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Will Washington test the anti-Putin coalition to destruction?

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.

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’.

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.

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?

USA / Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

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

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.

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.

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 / 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!

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.

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.

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.

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’.

Palestine / Obituary for Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

A CNN investigation has endorsed the view that Shireen was deliberately assassinated. But the truth about Israeli crimes cannot be snuffed out so easily.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange must be freed – a plea from his wife Stella Moris

This battle is not to only save a single journalist from gross injustice but to defend the right of all workers to access and speak the truth.

Palestine / Palestinian Nakba continues with the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

After 74 years of endless atrocities, the Israelis are further than ever from realising their fascistic goal of an ethnically ‘pure’ state.

Media / Yemen v Ukraine: What makes a war newsworthy?

Why are the crocodile tears of our leaders and their presstitutes reserved for some victims of war and denied to others?

Civil liberties / Assange, the 21st-century inquisition

It is not one man who is on trial, but the people’s right to access meaningful and reliable information.

Media / Liberal journalism’s fury as Soviet symbolism returns to liberated Donbass

True colours? Guardians of western values are agonising over the rout of the murderous thugs who have been rampaging for eight years in east Ukraine.

Media / ‘Hurrah for the Azov!’ – The curious case of BBC whitewashing nazism in Ukraine

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

Ukraine / Faking ‘war crimes’: Mariupol hospital witness exposes imperialist lie machine

The accounts of those on the scene clearly contradict the atrocity narratives the west is spinning to whip up support for an escalation of the war.

Ukraine / Ukraine calls for Nazi-era tribunal against Russia

But if the USA backs this call, the tables could well be turned.

British politics / Renegacy of Stop the War on display once again at ‘antiwar’ events

Those who turn out to voice their concern over war in Ukraine are being fed a nausea-inducing diet of pacifism and imperialist lies.

Civil liberties / Chris Mullin: Is another honest journalist about to be put behind bars?

West Midlands police are still pursuing a vendetta against the veteran reporter who revealed their corruption and incompetence.

British politics / The real conspiracy is that of the ruling class against the workers

Workers are being side-tracked from the class struggle with plausible lies that exploit their fears and their anger at being endlessly lied to.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange loses extradition appeal; British ‘justice’ exposed to the world

On the insincere assurances of US lawyers, a British court has decreed that it would be safe for Mr Assange to be handed over to their country’s tender mercies.

Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

Civil liberties / Imperialism’s global conspiracy against Julian Assange

Corporate media maintain their silence as the persecuted journalist and publisher remains behind bars, though convicted of no crime.

Education / Prof David Miller and the zionist campaign to crush dissent on campuses

The list of truths that we are being told we must not utter in public spaces continues to grow, but truth has a way of winning out.

Civil liberties / Reform of the Secrets Act is another brick in the wall

While the ‘opposition’ sits on its hands, the ruling class is rolling out more legislation designed to suppress working-class discontent.

Media / Facebook employs propagandist to wage war on ‘disinformation’

Big tech is enthusiastically embracing the drive to war with Russia and China.

Civil liberties / Mairead Maguire nominates Assange, Manning, Snowden for Nobel peace prize

Irish peace prize winner explains how the bravery of these three whistleblowers inspires peace-loving workers everywhere.

Media / Big Tech and the end of dissent: First they came for Donald Trump

The useful idiots of the liberal left are cheering while tech giants clamp down ever harder on freedom of speech.

Media / British ban of Chinese news channel is another step towards open warfare

The mainstream media is spreading cold war propaganda against China in support of the imperialists’ drive to an all-out conflagration.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange victorious, for now

Judge’s ruling makes it clear that the principles supposedly protecting free speech and honest journalism remain in peril.

British politics / Crisis of legitimacy: trust in politicians and journalists keeps going down

What does it say about our ‘democracy’ when those who are supposed to uphold it are some of the least trusted people in the country?

Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

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

Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.

Trade unions / Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement

TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?

Venezuela / Twitter censors Venezuelan embassy in Britain

Twitter is helping the US and its comprador coup plotters conduct the media war against Venezuela’s legitimate and popular government.

Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

Injustice and oppression will never be defeated unless at every turn they are resolutely resisted, whatever the cost.

Media / Assange nominated for the Nobel peace prize

Irish peace campaigner calls for the WikiLeaks’s founder to be recognised for his services against warmongering imperialism.

British politics / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

Media / How Wikipedia is used to prop up the imperialist lie machine

The internet encyclopaedia is an important front in the information war being waged by our rulers.

Media / The ongoing ‘fake news’ debacle

In the name of suppressing ‘fake news’ the bourgeoisie seeks to suppress inconvenient truth.

Media / Bringing Julian Assange home

John Pilger on the significance of WikiLeaks and the rage of US imperialism against its founder.

Media / Cambridge Analytica and the drive toward internet censorship

Corporate abuse of the internet is being used to justify censorship of independent media.

Media / The ‘independent media’ that exist to attack independent media

The enemy’s supposed to hate it: Beeley and Bartlett under attack again.

Media / Blunt hatchets: Guardian attempts to discredit real journalism on Syria

As the criminal war against Syria faces an all-out defeat, the guardians of liberal opinion are going all-out to bring independent-minded readers back into line.

Media / Media on trial

Independent journalists expose the lies of the liberal imperialist media such as the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.

Divide and rule / British media go all out to spread racism and islamophobia

While the true interests of vulnerable children are callously disregarded.

British politics / Editorial: Our demands

Working-class history / Remembering Comrade Clement Murphy-Shaw

An exemplary life given to the promotion of progressive and humanitarian causes.

Health / Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS

The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?

Media / Letter from Comrade Isabel Crook in China

Veteran revolutionary expresses her appreciation for factual analysis in a world dominated by lying imperialist media.

British politics / Forget the jubilee, join the revolution!

The Queen is not ‘ours’, but theirs. She is of and for that tiny handful of ruthless exploiters who keep the world’s people in poverty and servitude.

Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.