Africa / Dakar declaration: Strengthen the anti-imperialist struggle

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

Palestine / Expanded zionist aggression and the response of the resistance

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

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

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

Ukraine / Ukraine is losing the war, sparking panic in the imperialist pack

If the purpose of the Kursk ‘offensive’ was to distract attention from the hammering the fascists are getting in the Donbass, the result has been just the opposite.

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

With debt rising exponentially year on year, and interest payments of $1tn this year alone, the US economy is poised ever closer to open bankruptcy.

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

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

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange is free at last!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

USA / Naomi Klein: We need an exodus from zionism

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

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

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

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

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

USA / Aaron Bushnell: The death of an honest man

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

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.

Palestine / Jewish people condemn Israeli aggression and US complicity

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

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’.

Ukraine / Defeat in war deepens the cracks in Ukraine and its backers

The search for scapegoats and the scramble for the exit are now in full swing – in Kiev, Washington and Brussels alike.

USA / The murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger

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

Canada / ‘Sieg heil’ in the parliament of Canada

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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

A new name for an old imperialist game.

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.

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.

Venezuela / Venezuela: Blockade and plunder

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Climate change / The profiteers are responsible for the environmental disaster in Texas

The logic of capitalism means that our rulers consistently prioritise short-term profits over society’s long-term needs; even at the risk of their own extinction.

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.

USA / Crisis in America: Trump, Biden and the Capitol Hill affair

How has the US arrived at the point where it is disarming its own national guardsmen?

Economy / GameStop stops Wall Street

Activist amateur traders ‘driven by righteous anger’ very nearly broke at least one hedge vulture’s bank, causing panic on the stock exchange.

USA / Trump’s lengthening shadow will stymie Biden’s return to the Obama ‘norm’

Efforts to revive the halcyon days where Obama could sign off on endless drone assassinations and still be heralded as a beacon of ‘progress’ will not work.

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

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

Civil liberties / Julian Assange: the persecution continues

Years of unwarranted imprisonment and torture do not look likely to end any time soon, despite the denial of the US’s extradition claim.

Iran / Is the US about to launch an all-out war against Iran?

Incapable of learning from experience, the war hawks are once more banging the drum for yet another criminal, genocidal but ultimately futile war in the middle east.

Cuba / USA adds Cuba to ‘state sponsors of terror’ list without a shred of justification

Is this a parting shot aimed at stirring up trouble by Donald Trump?

Iran / One year on from the imperialists’ murder of General Qasem Soleimani

All progressives must support the right of Iran to defend itself against relentless imperialist aggression.

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange extradition trial: Shameful martyrisation continues

Kafka’s dystopian vision has been brought to life in the heart of the British injustice system.

Cuba / US diplomat caught interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs

The Cuban FM has made it clear that such actions will not be tolerated. Viva Cuba!

USA / Why are women being unnecessarily sterilised at a US immigration centre?

Disturbing facts have come to light in a for-profit immigration centre. What is the motivation behind these crimes against women prisoners?

China / US plans to launch drone fleet into the Pacific

The US imperialists are continuing their unhinged drive to war against China.

Poland / Poland signs humiliating surrender agreement with the US

The Polish-US agreement is a surrender bill in all but name.

Syria / Syrian and Libyan oil: Washington’s hand in the till

People across the middle east continue to suffer war and economic hardships as the price of living on top of coveted oil resources.

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

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

Divide and rule / Statues come down: the toppling of the mighty

Good riddance to bad rubbish, but what next?

USA / Rebellion: fractures in America deepen after murder of George Floyd

Will ‘taking the knee’, removing some statues and charging four policemen be enough to dampen the protests that have rocked the imperialist heartlands?

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

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

Industry / End British export of rubber bullets

British arms manufacturers continue to profit from these lethal ‘crowd control’ weapons.

Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

USA / US burning as working-class communities rise up against police brutality

As Irish republicans used to say: when the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law.

Korea / Russia unhappy at dialogue deep freeze between Pyongyang and Washington

Ambassador Alexander Matsegora spoke about why there is no reason to doubt north Korea’s claims that there are no coronavirus cases.

Pay and conditions / Workers in the US and Britain fight for workplace safety

Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation.

USA / Bernie Sanders drops out – again

The great hope of the American left leaves his supporters in the lurch, putting his weight behind the establishment choice.

Venezuela / Using the Covid crisis: British and US military massing off Venezuelan coast

Reckless and desperate attempts are being made by US imperialism to encircle and crush Venezuelan socialism.

British politics / Harry Dunn and the one-sided ‘special relationship’

Our rulers, who love to flaunt their ‘patriotism’, fail miserably when it comes to defending the interests of their own against a stronger foreign power.

Civil liberties / John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed

Australia and Britain are helping to get the WikiLeaks editor extradited to the USA, which is preparing a lifetime of torture for the ‘crime’ of exposing the truth.

Civil liberties / UN: Britain and US guilty of torturing Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

This illegal and brutal repression must not be allowed to succeed in its aim of terrifying workers into submission.

Iran / Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran

Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance.

Industry / Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger

Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.

Iran / US imperialism digging its own grave ever faster in the middle east

Slavishly supported by Britain as it does so.

Iran / Britain is acting as the US’s sanctions lapdog; will it follow into all-out war?

If the British imperialists fall in line with the US’s drive to war against Iran, they will share the bitter fruits of humiliation and defeat with their partner in crime.

USA / Moves to impeach President Trump

What is the real motivator of all the bile being levelled against Donald Trump? The Democrats can’t possibly be offended by corruption.

USA / General Motors workers on strike in the US

The workers have paid a heavy price for their employer’s return to profitability.

Europe / Anniversary of the D-Day landings

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

USA / The persecution of Latinos in the USA

How did there come to be so many people of Latin-American origin in the USA, and why are they so vilified by the ruling class?

Capitalist crisis / New recession will hit workers still paying the price of the last one

The capitalist system is unable to find a way out of the downward spiral of overproduction, crisis, austerity and war.

USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

USA / Jacobin-sponsored ‘socialism’ conference stars US-funded regime-change activists

A case study in how imperialism creates a controlled ‘opposition’ to endorse its propaganda lies ‘from the left’.

China / China’s resistance to the US trade war

Defensive measures by the People’s Republic are accelerating the very process the US has been trying to halt.

China / Making the best of the trade war

Embargoes and tariffs are pushing China to become increasingly self-sufficient in the vital areas of food production and tech development.

Iran / False flag in the strait of Hormuz?

Could the extreme hawks in Washington be trying to force Trump’s hand to launch their hoped-for war against Iran?

Venezuela / Venezuela isn’t Syria … but America’s war tactics are the same

The US’s template for demonising a nation it wishes to destroy is becoming all-too familiar.

China / US-China trade war escalates

In his quest to crush China’s technological advance, Trump is playing with a fire he cannot control.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

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

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.

Syria / Trump whistling in the dark over Isis defeat claim

If Daesh is truly defeated on the ground in Syria, it is to the eternal credit of the Syrian army and people, not US imperialism and its hirelings.

USA / US imperialist scrapping of INF treaty aimed against both Russia and China

US imperialist hawks are deepening their preparations for all-out war with Russia and China.

Venezuela / Hands off Venezuela!

The US will stop at nothing to get its hands on Venezuela’s oil. British workers must stop our own government from supporting this drive towards another criminal war.

Syria / Trump makes a lunge for the exit in Syria

A collective howl of rage from the liberal establishment greeted Trump’s announcement, but whether or not they manage to put the brakes on, the war in Syria is lost.

USA / Trump is God’s gift that keeps on giving – but to whom?

Trump’s running of US imperialism is replete with own goals, causing almost as much pain to his own side as to that of his opponents.

Venezuela / Support the Venezuelan people and President Maduro. No war for oil!

British workers must side firmly with the masses of Venezuela in their struggle to forge their own destiny without outside interference.

USA / Texas primary teacher loses her job for refusing to sign a pro-Israel oath

Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed advocates and defenders of bourgeois ‘free speech’ stand mutely by.

USA / The migrant caravan and the US mid-term elections

Crude jingoism deployed to boost President Trump’s Republican party at the expense of the desperate poor of Central America.

Syria / Syria carves out her future

Despite all the best-laid plans of US imperialism, the Syrian people are pushing on relentlessly with the liberation of their country.

China / Huawei executive arrest – a provocation too far

The US's persectution of Meng Wanzhou represents a dangerous escalation of its trade war against China.

Pay and conditions / Marriott hotel staff walk-outs across the USA

Hard-pressed hospitality workers are fighting back over low pay and increasingly brutal conditions.

World / Imperialists getting desperate as the balance of forces in the world shifts

The US and EU imperialists continue to decline while China and Russia are steadily advancing.

USA / Why is the US pulling out of the intermediate-range nuclear treaty?

“What going smaller does is to make using nuclear weapons more thinkable.”

USA / John McCain: a life in the service of blood-soaked imperialism

An enemy of progressive humanity, we mourn only his escape from justice.

Economy / Trade tariffs and trade wars

Hostility to China unites the imperialist powers despite the conflicting interests between them.

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.

World history / Fifty years since the murder of Martin Luther King Jr

A leader, one of many, murdered because they came to identify capitalism as the cause of the misery of the US masses.

USA / Trump, tariffs and global trade

Trade wars very often lead to shooting wars, and are one more sign of the deepening crisis of capitalism.

USA / Trump: racist head of a racist imperialist state

We are now just over one year into the presidency of Donald Trump and the circus rolls on.

Palestine / Trump’s proposed embassy move and savage repression of Palestinians

Nothing will stifle the justice of the Palestinian cause.

Pakistan / The US’s loss is China’s gain in Pakistan

Another tweet in the foot from Donald Trump.

USA / Heads roll in Russiagate farce

The pot calls the kettle black as one section of the US ruling class tries to convince the masses of Russian interference in last year’s US presidential election.

USA / Obamacare: going, going …

Assessing the impact of ‘Trumpcare’.

USA / The US election hacking scandal

The trumped up charges against the Russian government.

Palestine / Hedy Epstein, rights activist and holocaust survivor, remembered

Hedy Epstein, known and loved by the Palestinian people and their friends and supporters for her courageous work for solidarity and justice, has died aged 91.

Disputes / Kohler workers’ strike in the US

Workers demand an abolition to the two-tier pay system and equality among all the company's employees.

Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

USA / The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment

The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.

USA / US Party for Socialism and Liberation announces its 2016 presidential campaign

We are happy to reproduce the following statement from the PSL.

Cuba / A new victory for the Cuban revolution

After re-establishing diplomatic relations with the US, the lifting of the blockade, among other matters, will be indispensable for the normalisation of relations.

USA / Baltimore uprising reveals working class’s revolutionary potential

When revolutionary science and organisation come together with the power and anger of the US’s poor, there will be no stopping them.

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.

Working-class history / Fred Hampton, American revolutionary, 1948-1969

In August 2008, Fred Hampton should have turned 60. Owing to his political activities, however, he was assassinated by his US state forces aged just 21.