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 / 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.

Media / A schoolboy’s Christmas letter to Amnesty International