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.

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?

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.

Support the Felixstowe dockers!

Workers at the country’s busiest port are using their collective power to demand a pay rise in line with rampant inflation.

Ukraine / How corrupt is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky?

Who is this man who ‘preferred the ruin of his country to a timely compromise’?

Afghanistan / One year on from the Afghan rout: collective punishment continues

Having been beaten militarily, the USA and its allies continue to use economic and terroristic means to try to keep the Afghan people down.

British politics / Backing Truss for PM means doubling down on war drive and economic pain

Liz Truss represents a continued commitment by our rulers to their catastrophic direction on both the war drive and the economy.

China / USA’s provocations against China faced down by the People’s Liberation Army

In its desperation to ‘stop’ China’s growth, the USA is pushing towards all-out war – all while driving its various targets into ever-closer alliance.

China / China warns the USA on Taiwan: ‘Those who play with fire will perish by it.’

The US imperial tiger has far less power against China than it imagines. But while it remains in existence, it will continue to bring death and destruction in its wake.

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.

British politics / Britain fretting over declining influence on ‘the rules’ as China and Russia rise

The accelerating development of a strong anti-imperialist camp is threatening the foundations of imperialist domination and plunder of the globe.

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.

Ukraine / $65bn in western ‘aid for Ukraine’ is neither aid nor is it for Ukraine

Ukraine will be paying off its latest ‘aid’ package for the rest of this century. That is, provided there is a viable Ukrainian state left when the conflict ends.

Civil liberties / ‘Bill of shame’ spits in the face of ‘Troubles’ victims

British attempts to whitewash war crimes in Ireland make clear once again: there will be no ‘reconciliation’ until reunification.

Ukraine / Is Russia’s advance in Donbass too slow?

What accounts for the moderate pace of Russian progress in eastern Ukraine? Is it true that the speed is indicative of an imminent collapse?

USA / Cynical calculations behind America illegalising abortion

Has the Roe v Wade abortion rights ruling been overturned in the hopes of shoring up Joe Biden’s electoral prospects?

Health / Dr Bob Gill: The demise of British primary healthcare

First they came for the cleaners, then they came for the caterers, then for the porters, the student nurses and the junior doctors. Now they’re coming for the GPs.

Yemen / Saudis continue to violate the truce in Yemen

Despite ceasefire agreements, Saudi military attacks are ongoing, as is the brutal blockade of Yemeni ports, leaving millions at risk of starvation.

Colombia / Colombians say enough is enough

An electoral victory for the left in of one of the USA’s regional strongholds shows that the people’s will for liberation has not gone away with the fighters of the Farc.

Ukraine / As Russia completes Ukraine operation, fallout for the west is just beginning

The reality of Europe’s much-vaunted ‘unity’ in support of Ukraine is that the EU is in the process of tearing itself apart.

Africa / Why African countries are remaining ‘neutral’ over the war in Ukraine

Historical ties of friendship and solidarity between Africa and the former Soviet Union weigh strongly in the feeling that Africa has towards Vladmir Putin.

Cuba / Cuba responds to failed US-controlled summit: Our America deserves better

With anti-imperialist sentiment on the rise once more, the USA is more terrified than ever of the infectious socialist example in its continental ‘back yard’.

Russia / USA’s proxy war in Ukraine cementing the world anti-imperialist alliance

Not only have the imperialists strengthened instead of crushing Russia, they have in the process given new confidence to independent-minded states everywhere.

Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

Social wage / Food bank Britain

British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.

Pay and conditions / Sainsbury’s CEO in the money as workers feel the pinch

As conditions for the mass of workers get rapidly worse, the obscene inequalities of the system come into ever-sharper relief.

Burkina Faso / The example of Thomas Sankara lives on in Burkina Faso

Murder trial reminds the Burkinabè masses that freedom and dignity will only return when theirs is once more the land of the upright men.

Ukraine / Ukraine operation phase 2: Mariupol nazis fall and Donbass steadily liberated

Russian forces have defied imperialist narratives on every front; soon a new phase in the conflict will begin.

British politics / Boris in trouble: It’s the economy stupid … and that bloody stupid war

The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.

Ukraine / Joti Brar: ‘Greek workers have power to play leading role against Nato in Europe’

Those who spread the lie that the conflict in Ukraine is an ‘interimperialist war’ are helping to demobilise the world’s most militant antiwar activists.

Cuba / The heroes of Hotel Saratoga

A tale of everyday solidarity in the streets of socialist Cuba.

Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis worsens as inflation and energy prices soar

Our rulers are keen to blame ‘the Russians’ for the intrinsic failings of the capitalist system itself.

Disputes / Train strike: Britain could see the largest walk-out since the 1926 general strike

Meanwhile, the government is considering adding to anti-trade-union legislation to try to outlaw the action before it begins.

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.

Ukraine / Is Poland planning to invade Ukraine? Nato eyes new fronts in drive to WW3

US imperialism is desperate to shore up its waning hegemony – and doesn’t care who or what it has to lay waste in the process.

Ukraine / Why did the USA build a string of biolabs across Ukraine?

Why were they funded by the US defence department and what was Hunter Biden’s role?

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?

World history / Annette Beaumanoir: antifascist and anti-imperialist heroine of our times

Legendary French resistance fighter and groundbreaking ‘Red Doctor’ who dedicated her long life to serving the people.

British politics / Labour is the party of Nato, the party of war

Throughout Labour’s history, in and out of government, its leaders have always been unabashed cheerleaders for the crimes of imperialism.

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.

Divide and rule / Monstrous plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

The main target of anti-immigrant rhetoric is the British working class, which remains disunited and powerless when racist lies flourish.

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.

Sri Lanka / Sri Lankan workers revolt against the kleptocracy

As the world economic crisis bites deeper, a combination of unmanageable debt and rapidly rising food and fuel prices is making life impossible for the masses.

Divide and rule / Does our government love refugees now? What a difference one war makes

What are we supposed to make of the our rulers’ desire to extend the warmest possible welcome to refugees from Ukraine?

France / Macron secures second term, despite unpopularity and ‘ocean of abstentions’

Where is the force capable of harnessing the anger and militancy of the French working class?

Ukraine / Nato weapons for Ukraine: military aid and future profits for the USA

Arms monopolies have jumped at the chance to force as many countries as possible to replace their entire machinery of warfare.

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 / Russia advances to liberate the Donbass

Despite the floods of weaponry and propaganda from the west, Russia is slowly advancing its aim of denazifying eastern Ukraine. Again.

British history / Kim Philby: Hero of the working class

How the Soviet Union inspired a British establishment insider to devote his life to the cause of socialism and the socialist motherland.

Housing / London’s great council housing fraud

Politicians talk as if workers are fools, but no-one who has tried to live on a worker’s salary can swallow the London mayor’s lies about an increase in ‘affordable’ homes.

British politics / Partygate again: Is Boris really about to suffer ‘death by a thousand cuts’?

The prime minister’s lies and hypocrisy are once more back in the media spotlight. But the ruling class is struggling to find a replacement for its disgraced frontman.

British politics / Paltry Partygate fines for Boris and Sunak are a slap in the face for British workers

The ‘us and them’ reality of British class society has never been clearer.

Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

Pakistan / USA conspires for regime change in Pakistan, but will it last?

Powerful enemies are ranged against Imran Khan, but it would seem that the streets are with him.

Ukraine / Swiss intelligence specialist assesses the military situation in Ukraine

As information trickles in, it is becoming clear that Nato and its proxies are losing the ground war to Russia and the Donbass antifascist forces in east Ukraine.

Korea / Solidarity with people’s Korea on the Day of the Sun 2022

Progressive humanity has every reason to celebrate the birth of the great Korean Marxist and revolutionary Kim Il Sung.

Yugoslavia / Belgrade forum reminds the world: ‘Never forget’ Nato war on Yugoslavia

It is the height of hypocrisy for the west to be crying about war in Europe while remaining silent about the blitzkrieg carried out by its own air force 20 years ago.

Ukraine / Fake news in Kiev heralds cruel April

As Russia meets its military objectives, western enthusiasm for disinformation continues to grow.

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.

Climate change / Demonising fossil fuels will not tackle the environmental crisis

Only nationalisation of the energy sector will allow us to make rational plans to safeguard both our energy supplies and our future.

Lay-offs and closures / P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis

The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.

Palestine / Amnesty International: Israel guilty of ‘apartheid against Palestinians’

Western NGO is forced to conclude that Israel has constructed ‘a cruel system of domination’ that is ‘a crime against humanity’.

Ukraine / Nazis on the retreat as Russian encirclement bites in Ukraine

President Putin’s declared objectives of demilitarisation and denazification look likely to be fulfilled.

Ukraine / Ukraine’s President Zelensky: ‘It’s time to meet’

Are western leaders and their local proxies ready to recognise Russia’s legitimate security concerns?

Civil liberties / Iniquitous new borders bill aims to make citizenship-stripping routine

Are we entering a time where any outspoken opponent of the present system can be rendered stateless and deported?

Afghanistan / Victory of Afghan resistance forces is a heavy blow against our shared enemy

The defeat of US imperialism and its allies after 20 years of barbaric warfare is a tremendous advance for the anti-imperialist camp.

Laos / The inspirational yet unheard story of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

How has the most heavily-bombed nation on Earth managed not only to survive but to continue defending socialism and resisting US imperialism?

Capitalist crisis / Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis?

Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.

Ukraine / View from a Russian communist: ‘Russia is not going to occupy Ukraine’

How did it come to pass that fascist forces now dominate in this formerly socialist country? What is it that western media have not been telling us about the war?

Kazakhstan / Failed ‘colour revolution’ in Kazakhstan

Quick and decisive action by Russia and the CSTO has dealt a blow to the USA’s nefarious schemes in central Asia.

Ukraine / North Korea backs Russia’s action in Ukraine

DPRK points out that US provocations and military aggression are entirely to blame for the present situation in Europe.

Ukraine / Cuba calls for Ukraine solution that guarantees security and sovereignty of all

The United States and Nato are entirely responsible for the military escalation in Ukraine.

Ukraine / The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It’s about Germany

In whipping up a provocation against Russia in Ukraine, the USA’s primary objective was to stop the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

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.

British politics / Build the Workers Party of Britain

The primary goal facing us today is the breaking of all bonds between the Labour party and the working class.

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.

Capitalist crisis / Poverty stalks the land as ultrarich count the spoils

Inequality is rising in Britain and in the world, the inevitable outcome of the workings of our much-praised market economy.

Ukraine / Kiev junta facing defeat as Russia roots out fascist militias from Ukraine

The present denazification operation is the result of 30 years of slow-motion war by Nato against Russia.

Social wage / Nationalise the buses!

Covid was the last straw for thousands of Britain’s remaining bus routes, and the profit motive won’t save these essential services.

Ukraine / ‘Antiwar’ and corporate media play same tricks in anti-Russia war drive

And none of them care a jot for the wellbeing or the wishes of the people of Ukraine.

Canada / Solidarity with the Freedom Convoy of Canada

The arteries of the Canadian capital are clogged to the point where Canada’s whole rotten capitalist system is having a heart attack.

British politics / Learn the lessons of the Corbyn project: break the link with Labour!

Breaking the thousand threads that connect workers’ organisations to the Labour party is the biggest task facing us now.

Divide and rule / Imperialist society can’t be ‘decolonised’; fight racism by building for socialism

While state power remains in the hands of a tiny exploiting class, workers will continue to be divided by racism.

Divide and rule / The tragic fall of Kathleen Stock: another voice silenced by trans extremism

A backlash against the domination of our university campuses by anti-material transgender ideologists is long overdue.

Divide and rule / Fight racism with class unity, not separatism or black nationalism

It is only by unifying the maximum forces that we will be able to confront the enemy of ALL workers – the capitalist-imperialist economic system as a whole.

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.

China / China investing massively to address climate change

China’s example shows the real way out of our climate disaster – but taken alone, even its great strides cannot be enough.

Health / Law on mandatory vaccination for NHS staff to be repealed

In a last-minute U-turn, the beleaguered prime minister has realised that this is one battle he can do without.

Russia / Russia demands security guarantees to stop Nato expansion

The firm stance of Russia in the face of immense provocation stands in stark contrast to the chaos and disunity of the imperialist camp.

Syria / Bombing of Syria’s Tabqa dam: US war crime that nearly killed untold thousands

A recent investigation has uncovered the truth about an action for which the imperialists had previously denied responsibility.

USA / Insider dealing is just one of the ways US politicians get paid

Only revolution can end the corruption of public life.

China / US ‘forced labour’ act harms the people of Xinjiang

The imperialists are trying to curtail China’s rise and sow domestic strife by banning goods made in Xinjiang.

Kazakhstan / Kazakhstan: the latest in a string of failed coup attempts by the USA

Western-backed terror in central Asia is part of the imperialist drive to war, but has been scotched by Russia and China via the CSTO.

British politics / What can Boris’s ‘partygate’ tell us about the nature of capitalist Britain?

It is not just one leader we need to replace, but the whole rotten and corrupt system he represents.

Divide and rule / The Channel boat tragedy and Britain’s inhumanity to asylum seekers

Why is the plight of these desperate migrants being weaponised?

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.

UAE / Dubai’s freezing of F-35 order is a slap in the face for the USA

Another formerly loyal vassal is looking to keep its options open as imperial America’s star wanes.

Economy / BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar

Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.

Yugoslavia / Bosnia: Republika Srpska stands firm in resisting the push into Nato

Resistance to Brussels’ self-appointed authority is growing in the autonomous Serbian region.

Ukraine / MH17 disaster – who do you trust?

As in the case of the Lockerbie bombing, the ‘investigation’ into the MH17 atrocity is less an inquiry into facts and more a weapon in the propaganda war.

Russia / Russia stands firm against the latest imperialist provocation over Ukraine

‘Russian aggression’ is merely the pretext for Nato and Ukraine’s military manoeuvres and warlike rhetoric.

India / The Indian farmers’ magnificent victory

What lessons can workers everywhere learn from this historic struggle, and how is a decent future to be secured for India’s small farmers?

Capitalist crisis / Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place.

Health / Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism

In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.

Poetry / Poem: ‘Liberals’ & ’Death’

By Irish poet Kevin Higgins.

USSR / Tribute to Comrade Tamila Yabrova, 1929-2021

A steadfast and lifelong fighter against revisionism in the USSR.

Venezuela / Landslide victory for Maduro and the PSUV in Venezuelan election

The imperialists continue to cry ‘foul’ but even their most loyal proxies have been forced to recognise the result.

Divide and rule / Jobs are available – let asylum seekers work!

What possible justification can there be for refusing to let migrants work when there are so many empty positions?

Peru / Abimael Guzmán: death of a great revolutionary leader

Comrade Guzman may be dead, but so long as the conditions that gave rise to his movement remain, Peru’s rulers will continue to fear his name.

Health / Covid-19: Damning report highlights unpreparedness and corruption

Under cover of a global health emergency, our rulers have executed a blatant raid on the Treasury.

Korea / South Korean workers strike for secure work and better living standards

Strikers demand job security, healthcare, social housing and the right to free assembly in latest class-war skirmish.

Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

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

China / China and Covid: working towards a global community of health for all

While China has declared its vaccines to be a global public good, imperialist corporations continue to put profit ahead of health.

Nicaragua / Imperialists incandescent as Nicaragua re-elects President Ortega in a landslide

Meanwhile, the country is leaving the OAS after its attempts to have the election results overturned.

Environment / Stop these sociopaths from poisoning our rivers!

We are reaping the whirlwind after decades of criminal neglect of Britain’s privatised water and sewage systems.

Economy / Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers

Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.

Health / The NHS, the Covid pandemic and the private insurance takeover

A meaningful defence of Britain’s health service is urgently needed. What would it look like?

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.

China / US appoints itself arbiter of ‘democracy’: one more act of anti-China propaganda

Invitation list confirms that to be counted as democratic one must be first and foremost a friend of the dictatorial US imperialist regime.

USA / Influence-peddling scandal implicates Joe Biden, son Hunter and brother Jim

Meanwhile, it transpires that it wasn’t the Russians interfering in the 2020 US presidential election but the barons of Silicon Valley.

Health / Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights

National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.

British politics / Brexit continues to be a thorn in the side of imperialism

Exposing capitalist democracy, hastening Irish reunification, weakening the camp of international imperialism ... these effects of Brexit are greatly to be welcomed.

Industry / A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam

The proposed railways ‘solution’ is less a plan for renationalisation than it is a promise to provide further subsidies to monopoly capital.

China / Comrade Ella: Our enemy is here at home, not in China

Confusing and demoralising anticommunist propaganda is a cornerstone of the imperialist drive for domination and war.

Venezuela / Iniquitous lawfare: diplomat Alex Saab illegally kidnapped by US imperialism

The US is attempting to shore up its waning hegemony by claiming the right to try and convict independent-minded individuals in every corner of the globe.

Climate change / Cop26: Fiddling while the world burns

Awash with fossil fuel lobbyists and corporate sponsors, the latest ‘climate conference’ was just another greenwashing exercise for monopoly capital.

Energy / Why is Britain importing coal from Australia and the USA?

Is it fear of militant miners that keeps our rulers from reopening deep mines in Britain while we still have a need for coal?

Poland / Trouble in the EU: is Polexit looming?

Already holed beneath the water line by Brexit, the European imperialist flagship is heading into increasingly turbulent waters.

Economy / ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms

Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.

Lebanon / Lebanon has a new government, but remains a vassal state

The hypocrisy of US imperial enforcer Victoria Nuland denouncing the ‘thieves’ her own government has propped up for decades passes all bounds.

Economy / Energy crisis: how imperialism manufactures ‘shortages’

The monopolists are too busy vying for advantage to worry about the effects of their machinations on the lives of the workers.

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.

British politics / Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses

Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.

USA / US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults

Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.

China / What do Evergrande’s troubles mean for the Chinese and world economies?

No amount of state intervention can break the connection between overproduction crisis and the market.

Bolivia / Haitian president’s assassins part of plot to kill Bolivian leader

Evidence has emerged of a plan to kill President Luis Arce, the popular successor to Evo Morales.

Nicaragua / Nicaraguan ambassador: ‘In our country, democracy is in the hands of the people’

Comrade Guisell Morales reminds us that capitalism, imperialism and sanctions kill; and that another world is possible.

Venezuela / The US has placed itself in charge over which nations get to eat

The imprisonment of diplomat Alex Saab is a further indication of the lengths to which US imperialism will go in imposing its starvation sanctions on Venezuela.

British politics / Britain steps up diplomatic hostility towards China

In banning the Chinese ambassador from Parliament, Britain is ramping up its pro-war stance.

Cuba / Cuba rebuts claims of ‘sonic weapon’ targeting US diplomats in Havana

Claims of a ‘mystery syndrome’ don’t stand up to the slightest scientific scrutiny, yet western politicians and media continue to repeat them.

Honduras / Honduran masses reject neocolonial ‘private cities’ and demand sovereignty

Imperialist corporations are establishing private empires, the better to maximise profit and control resources.

British politics / Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks

Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.

British politics / Labour party conference not a ‘safe space’ for women

While Keir Starmer can’t say who has a cervix, one of his MPs is receiving death threats for defending women’s rights.

Civil liberties / Anglo-American plot to assassinate Julian Assange on London’s streets

Will the authorities now be forced to cease their decade-long persecution of the world’s most celebrated journalist?

Australia / Aukus deal splits the imperialist front against China

As Lord Palmerston declared 200 years ago: imperialism has no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

Economy / Gas prices go through the roof as global shortage ties supply lines in knots 

Millions of families will again be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.

Ireland / 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’?

Tunisia / Ten years on from the Jasmine revolution, the masses are moving again

The ravages of Covid have added to the longstanding issues of poverty, hunger, unemployment and corruption which brought down Ben Ali a decade ago.

Ecuador / Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger

Instead of paying billions in damages owed for horrific pollution of Ecuador’s rainforest, the oil giant is hounding and demonising its accusers.

Colombia / The masses are fighting back in Colombia

Colombian workers are learning vital lessons about the power of mass action to achieve their ends.

Civil liberties / Craig Murray: British state locks up elderly journalist on spurious charges

In Britain today, any journalist who becomes an inconvenience to the ruling class can expect to be ruthlessly targeted.

Italy / Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back

Workers demand an end to the dismantling and export of their industries and the protection of their rights to healthcare and a decent environment.

Economy / Scandalous levels of public service corruption in Britain

Is honest dealing by businesses and politicians compatible with capitalist society and the profit motive?

Pay and conditions / Keep on trucking: supply lines chaos as Covid and Brexit effects combine

The obvious answer to the present shortage of skilled labour is to invest in training and to improve pay and conditions in the areas concerned.

Afghanistan / Saigon all over again: US pull-out from Afghanistan turns into a rout

Nato’s invading armies have been ignominiously kicked out after two decades, having achieved nothing but the reinvigoration of anti-imperialist resistance.

France / Solidarity with French workers and their fight against Nato in Toulouse

Workers protest the militarisation of space and the subordination of their interests to those of US imperialsm.

Ukraine / Russia puts Ukrainian junta in the dock

Will the European court be interested in upholding the human rights of the people of Crimea and the Donbass?

Environment / Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.

Cuba / Support the Cuban people as they defend their revolution

The progressive people of the world are firmly with Cuba’s masses as they face a renewed onslaught of US interference and sabotage.

Working-class history / Remembering the 2011 youth uprising

Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.

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.

China / No politicisation of Covid origin tracing: joint statement with CPC

The quest to understand the origin of Covid-19 must be pursued in the spirit of international cooperation, not used as a political football.

Social wage / Cambian Childcare: End this chattel slavery

How many more horrendous revelations do we have to endure before action is taken to end the abuse of vulnerable children by profiteers?

Afghanistan / US imperialism slinks out of Afghanistan

As war after war ends in defeat, the much-touted ‘new American century’ is turning out to be the era of imperial decline.

USA / Whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in US prison for drone leak

‘I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take – precious human life.’

Environment / ‘Recycling’ today: greenwashing for a broken, ecocidal system

Why does our society seem so incapable of dealing with the rising tide of plastic that threatens to overwhelm us?

Social wage / Scandalous profiteering at the expense of children in care

Our most vulnerable children have been transformed into business units by private equity funds.

Korea / Comrade Kim Jong Il’s lifelong contribution to the Korean revolution

Why do north Koreans celebrate the date on which Kim Jong Il started work on the central committee of the Workers Party of Korea?

Iran / US escalates tension with Iran in attacks at home and abroad

But in doing so, it is only weakening its own already shaky position in the middle east.

India / Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh dies from Covid, aged 91

The incredible life story of the ‘Flying Sikh’ exemplified the triumph of determination over adversity.

Ireland / Britain’s dirty war back in the spotlight

The full historical reckoning for centuries of colonial crimes will be made by a future reunified Ireland.

Palestine / Nasrallah: Gaza’s victory paves the way for the total liberation of Palestine

Lebanese resistance leader shows how the Palestinians won in Gaza and what that victory signifies for the middle east.

Economy / Fraud office’s ‘deferred prosecution’ trick shields top bosses from legal action

The lords of finance capital have long made it clear that they are above the law: now it’s being implicitly accepted by those who supposedly ‘regulate’ their activities.

Cuba / ‘The streets of Cuba belong to revolutionaries and we will defend them’

Enemies of the revolution are trying to manipulate problems of the pandemic and the blockade to effect regime change. It will not work.

Social wage / Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut

A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.

Ukraine / Britain’s Crimea provocation: a navy lark that went very wrong

Those who are driving us towards a full-scale conflagration with Russia should be careful what they wish for.

Syria / Bashar al-Assad’s latest presidential election victory is gall to imperialism

The regime change project may have destroyed countless lives and livelihoods, but the Syrian people remain firm in resisting outside interference.

Belarus / Demonisation aims at regime change in Belarus

Imperialist-backed opposition forces in disarray after their publicity stunt backfired.

Palestine / Operation al-Quds Sword strikes terror into the heart of Israel

After bombarding Gaza for 11 days, Israel has achieved only the emboldening and greater unity of Palestinian resistance.

Civil liberties / Metropolitan police branded ‘institutionally corrupt’

An unsolved murder and a persistent family have laid bare a catalogue of dishonest dealings by police stretching out over decades.

Canada / Mass children’s grave uncovers brutal details of Canada’s indigenous genocide

Laying bare the unpalatable truth about capitalism, red in tooth and claw.

Health / Film: The Great NHS Heist

Dr Bob Gill’s contribution to the fight to save our NHS is incalculable. This film is essential viewing for every British worker.

Palestine / ‘Resiste y avanza’: Venezuelans host global solidarity event for Palestine

Workers all over the world have been expressing their disgust at the latest zionist outrages.

Health / NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation

Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.

World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

A searing reminder of the need for class unity in the battle for socialism.

Colombia / Support the Colombian people’s uprising

Renewed struggle has burst out in the streets of Colombia, where the panicked government's concessions have by no means satisfied the militant demands of the masses.

Palestine / Latest Gaza assault: zionism signs its own death warrant

Palestinians have given up waiting for the ‘international community’ to act on toothless resolutions and are increasing the strength and unity of their own resistance.

Civil liberties / Workers Party statement: No to Covid passports

There is no medical justification for the imposition of such documents; they are not aimed at protecting our health but at the surveillance and control of workers.

Divide and rule / Sewell report concludes ‘no institutional racism’ in British society. How?

The whitewashers of the system and the self-identifying ‘social justice warriors’ form a perfect double-act, working to keep workers perpetually divided.

Africa / President Idriss Déby of Chad: death of an imperialist puppet

After decades of kleotocratic tyranny, French and US imperialists are working to ensure power passes to Déby's equally corrupt and unpopular son.

Civil liberties / Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!

A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law.

Industry / The Sanjeev Gupta, Lex Greensill and David Cameron affair

Once again we see the absurdity of a system that leaves the fate of essential industries and millions of workers in the hands of rapacious fraudsters.

World / Five Eyes become four as New Zealand distances itself from anti-China action

Workers have no interest in going along with the wave of anti-China propaganda that is preparing the ground for a devastating war.

Britain / Britain commits to nuclear expansion in defiance of non-proliferation treaty

What is behind the renewed imperialist drive to war?

Yemen / Imperialism and its sidekicks sink in a swamp of their own making in Yemen

The indomitable spirit of the Yemeni resistance is further proof that the imperialists and their proxies are incapable of winning a single aggressive war.

Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

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

USA / Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts of George Floyd’s murder

A conviction that serves to underline the general impunity of imperialist state forces when carrying out their role as defenders of the status quo.

India / India’s Covid nightmare

In India, the true face of capitalism is showing itself with utmost clarity: poverty, inequality and a total inability to put the needs of the people first.

Palestine / Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, steal land with impunity

The violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against civilians continues, propped up by Israel’s legal system and the world’s blind eyes.

USA / Biden’s US ramps up hostility toward refugees, despite ‘humane’ promises

Joe proves his imperialist credentials by presiding over ‘business as usual’ in America’s war on migrant workers.

Economy / Post Office pursued vindictive prosecutions against subpostmasters

The appeal court victory of 29 of those wrongfully convicted has opened the floodgates for hundreds more claims.

Industry / Greensill debacle: the door keeps revolving

The collapse of this particular debt-laden finance house is drawing public attention to some very uncomfortable truths.

Health / NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’

Instead of rebuilding our decimated public capacity, private providers are being subsidised to the tune of billions to take the place of the NHS.

Industry / FlyBe is dead, long live FlyBe

Turns out all it takes to avoid the creditors is a slightly tweaked name and a fresh coat of paint.

China / Who is peddling the ‘Uyghur genocide’ myth, and why?

It is not in the interests of British workers to accept the lies being propagated by our rulers.

China / The Chinese ‘debt trap’ is a myth

Did Chinese firms build the Sri Lankan port of Hambantota as part of a new imperialist domination strategy, as many commentators allege?

Pay and conditions / Don’t make care workers pay for the crisis in social care!

We must renationalise and reunite social care with healthcare, and pay all workers in the sector a decent wage.

Russia / Alexei Navalny – criminal, fraudster and puppet of imperialism

Civil liberties / Police Bill: capitalism gears up for the class struggles to come

Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis.

Korea / Kim Jong Un elected as general secretary of north Korean party

Workers Party of Korea celebrates its successful congress and returns with renewed vigour to the task of building a prosperous life for all.

British politics / Salmond v Sturgeon: what’s going on in the Scottish nationalist camp?

All this sound and fury is serving to obscure Salmond’s real crime: the incitement of reactionary separatism amongst the British working class.

Civil liberties / BLM, XR: No reds under the bed … yet

Our rulers are nervous that workers may start to put up really meaningful resistance to imperialist domination, despoliation and war.

Housing / Ban extended, but evictions continue

Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.

Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Justice delayed is justice denied

Workers must start to organise themselves so as to be able to demand justice now – social justice for all.

British politics / Liverpool scandal: Starmer cheers as the government sends in the commissioners

Labour and Tory are two sides of the same dud coin; we should be grateful to Starmer for demonstrating this so clearly.

Industry / Cameron’s hand caught trapped in the till as Greensill collapses

The collapse of yet another debt-laden house of cards has shone a light on the revolving door between career politicians and the corporations they serve.

Working-class history / Book review: The East Was Read by Vijay Prashad

An excellent collection that reminds us of the urgent need for a cultural renaissance amongst the working and oppressed masses.