Poetry / Poem: ‘Liberals’ & ’Death’

By Irish poet Kevin Higgins.

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.

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.

British politics / Fresh revelations prove definitively that Britain’s ‘defence’ capacity has aggressive intent

What kind of defence force entails a permanent military presence of 145 base sites in 42 countries?

World / ICC drops case against Britain, despite ‘clear evidence’ of war crimes

How can the warmongering criminals rampaging around the globe be held to account?

Industry / Government announces extra £16.5bn for military

Government promises spending will protect 10,000 jobs, but at what cost to the working class?

Australia / ‘Killing for sport’: Is the Australian SAS an outlier or the norm?

Four-year investigation reveals the true depravity of imperialist occupation forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

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

China / US plans to launch drone fleet into the Pacific

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

Climate change / Book review: The Uninhabitable Earth

While giving admirable details regarding the facts of climate change the author fails to draw the crucial conclusion – that you need to be red to be green.

British politics / Workers party sets a course despite lockdown

Weeks of lockdown have been used by the Workers party to speak to more than half a million people.

British politics / George Galloway: ‘The idea that the organs of the state are impartial is dead’

Does this herald a moment when the working class in Britain gets back up off its knees and starts to fight again?

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.

Climate change / COP25: Has anything actually been achieved to help save our environment?

As the imperialists haggle and back-peddle, the simple truth is that you have to be red to be green.

Climate change / The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars

Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.

Britain / British imperialism announces: there is no peace, only war

Army plans to move to a permanent war footing in hopes of stopping successful economic development by Russia and China.

Venezuela / It is imperative to halt the imperialist military adventure against Venezuela

Cuban government calls on progressive people everywhere to unite to defend Venezuela’s independence and freedom.

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.

Britain / Terrorist atrocity in Manchester

The MI6 connection.

Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

British politics / Chilcot report: devastating exposure of the British establishment

Blair hung out to dry in an attempt to divert attention from the continuing crimes of British imperialism.

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.

Ukraine / Deeper into the quagmire

Into which the siren song of the EU has lured it.

Iraq / The axis of resistance and the liberation of Ramadi

Key Iraqi city has been freed from IS occupation despite the presence of imperialist forces.

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.

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.

Editorial: Russia backs the Syrian people

Ukraine / Ukraine: Neither political chicanery nor naked aggression can save Poroshenko

With deadly splits opening up within the fascist camp and Russia standing firm on the border, the prospects for imperialism’s chosen stooges do not look good.

British politics / Who is to blame for the refugee crisis?

Why is it that so many more refugees are heading for western Europe than was the case five, ten or twenty years ago?

Film and TV / We Are Many: new film prettifies leaders of the anti-war movement

We have the power to change the world, but are we allowing that power to be diverted?

Europe / Seventieth anniversary of the victory over fascism marked in Moscow

An excuse for an orgy of bourgeois lies and prevarication.