Ukraine / Book review: Putin’s Prisoner by Aiden Aslin

Ukraine and other war zones are seen as cash cows for the west’s publicity-seeking soldiers of fortune, who crave fame and adulation for their actions.

History / ‘The lessons of history …’

No matter how carefully our environment is manipulated, in the end, truth will out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

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

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.

Syria / Turkey plays with conflagration in Syria

If Erdogan isn’t careful, he could find himself in outright confrontation not only with Syrian but also Russian armed forces.

Syria / Losing the war, imperialism degenerates into open piracy in Syria

Trump admits it’s all about the oil and moves to steal as much of it as he can.

Syria / Turkey’s invasion troops trained by USA

The US imperialists have backed 21 of the 28 ‘crazy’ militias leading Turkey’s brutal invasion of northern Syria.

Syria / Syrian army curbs Turkish aggression, restores sovereignty, humiliates USA

Will Kurdish separatists finally learn the lesson that they are entirely disposable to the imperialists?

Syria / Trump pulls US imperialist troops out of Syria – as promised

Why has this huge step towards Syria’s total liberation been greeted with such howls of rage by those on the self-identifying ‘left’?

Syria / Turkey and US sign a robbers’ pact over Syria

Kurdish nationalists must choose between unstable US-backed ‘self-rule’ and returning to a united Syrian fold.

Industry / British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?

Syria / Syria looks to its future while US imperialism yearns for the past

After eight years of bloody war aimed at shoring up its control over the middle east, the US has achieved exactly the opposite.

Syria / Shifting sands in the middle east

As Syria advances towards liberation, facts on the ground are pushing Turkey ever closer to Russia, deepening the splits in Nato.

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.

Syria / Syria fights on

Only total liberation will allow the country to rebuild a tolerant society and solve the problems that imperialist invasion has created.

Turkey / Relations weakening between Ankara and its Nato allies

The overproduction crisis is taking its toll on the stability of Erdogan’s AKP government, moving it away from unquestioning support for imperialism.

Syria / Headlines for Baghuz; silence for al-Hol as US tries to keep its foothold in Syria

Imperialist media continue to ignore or distort the plight of civilians trapped in US-controlled refugee camps.

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.

Syria / Syria clears away remaining obstacles to liberation

And the more she advances, the harder becomes the imperialists’ task of keeping together the tissue of lies that was woven to justify their barbaric invasion.

Syria / US imperialism finds defeat hard to swallow in Syria

The writing is on the wall: regime-change has failed and US imperialism is heading for the exit.

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.

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.

Syria / US imperialism losing the plot in Syria

The imperialists are raging as strong diplomacy combined with military advances edge the Syrian people ever closer to their final victory.

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.

Syria / No cooperation with imperialist war crimes in Syria

Refuse to help with the war effort; full support to the resistance!

Syria / Idlib: Syria stays its hand

With or without the assistance of the west, Syria will rebuild. It is winning the war and will win the peace.

British politics / Anti-war work in Britain

If we want to build an effective anti-war movement, we must work to smash the hold of the imperialist lie machine on workers' minds.

Syria / Idlib stands on the threshold of liberation

Imperialism desperately seeks to put a spanner in the works to prevent the final rout of the jihadi menace.

British politics / Collusion between British security services and jihadis revealed

Further proof that it is in workers’ interests to oppose and challenge the imperialist foreign policy of our ruling class.

British politics / Libyan terrorists nurtured by British imperialism bite the hand that feeds

The terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena was carried out by a young man whose training and radicalisation were facilitated by British secret services.

Syria / Army moves to liberate Idlib as US faces waning authority in the region

Islamic State in Syria has been vanquished, to the great consternation of the imperialists, who now stare complete defeat in the face.

Syria / White Helmets ‘evacuated’ from southwest Syria by Israeli forces

The imperialists have been panicked into action by the realisation that their proxy forces in Syria are not going to last much longer.

Syria / Syria advances to liberation

The Syrian people are standing firm against all the plots and intrigues by which imperialism hopes to cheat them of their victory.

Syria / The liberation of eastern Ghouta

Imperialism is fighting a failing endgame.

Iran / Trump rips up the nuclear deal

Will Europe follow suit?

Leaflets / No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

The timing of the imperialist missile strikes on Syria reveals their hopes of saving the defeated jihadis to inflict further suffering on the Syrian people.

British politics / Bristol demo report: The utter bankruptcy of Stop the War

Fresh proof that workers will never succeed in stopping war while they allow the StW charlatans to lead their movement.

Syria / Imperialist plans for a major war as rats cleared out of eastern Ghouta

British soldiers captured by the Syrian army in Douma give the game away.

Syria / From Afrin to Ghouta, US policy in Syria is backfiring badly

Each new US plan to rescue something from its failed war in Syria has led to further humiliation for the imperialists.

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

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

Leaflets / Why hasn’t Stop the War stopped a war yet?

Fifteen years after the 2 million-strong demo against the invasion of Iraq, why is the anti-war movement’s record so dismal?

Syria / Total liberation in sight for Syria

Last-ditch efforts by the terrorist forces and their imperialist backers to turn the tide merely serve to underline the desperate straits to which they have been reduced.

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

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

Media / Media on trial

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

Syria / Syria moves forward

The imperialists are staring a humiliating defeat in the face, and now the demoralised losers are falling out among themselves.

Syria / The liberation of Deir Ezzor

As the day of total victory draws near for the Syrian patriotic forces, the imperialists and their stooges are casting about for ways to save face as they head for the exit.

Syria / Syria’s liberation in sight

In spite of everything US imperialism, Israel and Arab traitors are doing to try to stand in the way, Syria continues to advance towards victory

Syria / Liberation of Aleppo is reshaping the middle east

The total failure of US imperialist policy in Syria has been made clear at the Astana peace talks.

Syria / Syrian president: ‘defeat of the terrorists is the west’s defeat’

The following are extensive excerpts from an exclusive interview given by President Bashar al-Assad of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian international television channel RT, first published on 14 December 2016. Proletarian has made minor corrections to the translation for clarity.

Turkey / Turkish coup: more fallout from the war in Syria

Whoever turns out to have been behind it, the recent coup attempt may be another blow against US imperialist hegemony in the middle east.

Syria / Patriotic forces consolidate their gains

Confusion and disintegration reign amongst the imperialist-backed ‘opposition’ as Syria and her allies strengthen their position.

Syria / Patriotic forces advancing

As Russian forces pull back, the jihadis continue to suffer defeat after defeat.

Saudi Arabia / The march of the Saudi regime towards its inevitable doom

The mediaeval autocracy is fuelling the very forces that will bring its decrepit rule to an end.

Syria / Resistance turns the tide

Forward movement on the diplomatic front has only been achieved as a result of the heroic struggle waged by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies.

France / Paris terror attacks: Further proof that we need to overthrow imperialism

Jihadi terrorism is the bastard child of the union between blind religious fanaticism and imperialist market fundamentalism.

Syria: Imperialism on the back foot

Russia’s fraternal aid to Syria continues to expose the false narrative of western politicians and media regarding the fight against fundamentalist terrorism.

Russia / Brutal bombing of a holiday flight by IS terrorists

The imperialists hope that these tragic deaths will undermine domestic support for Russia’s contribution to the fight against IS. They are likely to be disappointed.

Syria / Imperialism raises the stakes in Syria

Meanwhile, crude attempts to manipulate public opinion proliferate.

Lebanon / The last thing Lebanon needs is a phony ‘Arab Spring’

Regime change under the present conditions would be a disaster for Lebanon.

Syria / Editorial: Russia backs the Syrian people

Syria / Hypocritical imperialist double-dealing in Syria

While local stooges are working overtime to help imperialism topple the Syrian government, it is the Syrian army that truly combats Islamic State, not the RAF.

Turkey / Turkish election ends Erdogan’s majority

Now that the AKP has lost its total control over the government, Prime Minister Erdogan’s usefulness to both the Turkish and imperialist ruling classes is being brought into question.

Syria / Idlib setback: imperialism crows too soon

US imperialism’s ‘islamic’ psychopaths cannot win hearts and minds.

Syria / MI5 and the jihadists: an unholy alliance

Britain's secret services and reactionary islamists united against Syria.

Iran / Iran stands tall

Broad-based international support is strengthening Iran’s hand against the warmongers.