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.

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.

Belarus / Demonisation aims at regime change in Belarus

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Palestine / Israel makes Palestinian children homeless as world watches US election

Eleven families left searching for shelter after Israeli forces destroyed their village in the Jordan Valley.

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.

Media / British ban of Chinese news channel is another step towards open warfare

The mainstream media is spreading cold war propaganda against China in support of the imperialists’ drive to an all-out conflagration.

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.

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.

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?

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.

British politics / Crisis of legitimacy: trust in politicians and journalists keeps going down

What does it say about our ‘democracy’ when those who are supposed to uphold it are some of the least trusted people in the country?

Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

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

Civil liberties / Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

Belarus / Hands off Belarus!

What is motivating the latest attempted regime change operation in Europe?

China / Hong Kong and the British government’s servile stupidity

Our rulers are tying us ever more firmly to the war chariot of US imperialism.

Palestine / Under cover of Covid-19: Israel tightens the screws on Palestine

Israel’s violent suppression and annexation of Palestine continues unabated, but with it so grows the just resistance of the Palestinian people.

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

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

Health / Second spike looms: Boris opts for ‘whack-a-mole’ over having a good plan

On every level, the performance of socialist countries in dealing with Covid-19 is putting the profiteering, anti-worker ethos of capitalism to shame.

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.

Books / Polish hack writes laughable fantasy on ‘feeding dictators’

As the crisis of capitalism continues to destroy lives, anticommunist hirelings are churning out increasingly blatant and ridiculous lies.

Yemen / Fake calls for Covid peace in Yemen

Resistance rejects the strong-arm tactic of ‘dialogue under fire and siege’.

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.

Ukraine / Imperialism continues to milk the MH17 tragedy for russophobic propaganda

The ‘investigation’ of the crash is nothing more than propaganda in support of the imperialist war drive.

Health / The anti-China coronavirus panic

What is really behind the media hysteria over Covid-19? And what can the virus tell us about the state of our NHS?

Civil liberties / Craig Murray: Assange’s armoured glass box is an instrument of torture

‘They are attempting to make him kill himself – or create the conditions where his death might be explained away as suicide.’

Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 4

The British state is lying about the validity of the US extradition treaty – and it knows it.

Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 3

The sham show-trial at Woolwich reveals how brazenly our rulers will flout their own rules when it suits them to do so.

Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 2

It has been demonstrably proved in court that the US knows its own charges against Assange are untrue.

Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 1

This shameful show trial is being exposed by one of the few people in the court who is prepared to tell the truth to the outside world.

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.

Film and TV / Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

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.

Nicaragua / Nicaragua: Amnesty’s travesty of hypocrisy

Another shameful report from those who peddle ‘human rights’ lies to justify imperialist war.

Bolivia / The coup in Bolivia: why was Morales targeted?

What lessons can workers learn from the events in Bolivia?

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.

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.

Climate change / From climate change to regime change

From Brazil to Bolivia and Venezuela: how the environment has become a tool of coercion.

Bolivia / Stop the coup; defend President Evo Morales. Hands off Bolivia!

As Latin America’s masses struggle to throw off the yoke of imperialist control, the US has intervened once more to overthrow a popular government.

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’?

Trade unions / Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement

TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange in court: unmistakable signs of torture

Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?

Europe / EU legislates to erase the USSR’s role in defeating fascism

But truth has a way of forcing its way through all the same.

Venezuela / British communists join march and rally in Caracas

International conference calls on workers everywhere to refuse to cooperate with the imperialist aggression against Venezuela.

USSR / Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

As the dystopian reality of bourgeois exploitation and ‘democracy’ hits home, Stalin and communism are viewed with respect and longing.

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.

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 / Hong Kong government withdraws proposed extradition legislation

The real aim of the protestors is to prevent the reunification of Taiwan with China, and, if possible, to try also to separate Hong Kong from the motherland.

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

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

Venezuela / Twitter censors Venezuelan embassy in Britain

Twitter is helping the US and its comprador coup plotters conduct the media war against Venezuela’s legitimate and popular government.

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.

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.

Economy / Britain lobbies Germany to sell arms to the Saudis

Crocodile tears over the famine in Yemen are accompanied by strenuous lobbying on behalf of the corporations that are perpetuating it.

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.

Media / Assange nominated for the Nobel peace prize

Irish peace campaigner calls for the WikiLeaks’s founder to be recognised for his services against warmongering imperialism.

British politics / British think tank implicated in orchestration of the Skripal affair

The desirability of such an event, along with media and establishment ‘responses’, are all outlined in the files of the shadowy Integrity Initiative.

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.

USSR / Book: Grover Furr’s Mystery of the Katyn Massacre

This impartial examination of all available evidence proves irrefutably that the Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Polish officers in 1941.

British politics / Beware the drive to WW3 with Russia and China

If war is not avoided by workers making revolution first, then we must turn the coming war into a civil war to shake the warmongers off our backs.

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.

British politics / Why is Corbyn under attack?

It is not his alleged ‘antisemitism’ that offends the ruling class, but his refusal to give unconditional support to Israel.

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 / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

Media / How Wikipedia is used to prop up the imperialist lie machine

The internet encyclopaedia is an important front in the information war being waged by our rulers.

Media / The ongoing ‘fake news’ debacle

In the name of suppressing ‘fake news’ the bourgeoisie seeks to suppress inconvenient truth.

British politics / ‘Novichok’ 2: the continuing propaganda drive against Russia

Second ‘novichok’ case undermines the claims of the first as hysterical anti-Russia campaign falls flat.

Ukraine / Babchenko ‘assassination’: Kiev’s grisly propaganda stunt backfires

By putting on this grisly cabaret, the Kiev junta has at a stroke destroyed every last shred of its credibility in the eyes of the world.

Nicaragua / Open letter to Amnesty International by a former prisoner of conscience

Nicaragua’s economic model represents an existential threat to the neoliberal economic order imposed by the US and its allies.

Nicaragua / Sandinista government under threat from imperialist stooges

‘The audacity of success’ has once again placed Nicaragua in the crosshairs of US intervention.

Media / Bringing Julian Assange home

John Pilger on the significance of WikiLeaks and the rage of US imperialism against its founder.

Film and TV / Film: The Death of Stalin

It’s bad history and bad art, but Armando Iannucci’s film has put the wind up bourgeois critics for quite other reasons than those.

Media / Cambridge Analytica and the drive toward internet censorship

Corporate abuse of the internet is being used to justify censorship of independent media.

Syria / The liberation of eastern Ghouta

Imperialism is fighting a failing endgame.

Poetry / Poem: They Say that Both Sides are to Blame?

Media lies keep the working class divided and weak. What's the way out?

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.

British politics / The Skripal case is blatant war propaganda. Hands off Russia!

The hysterical tone of the media and political establishment betrays imperialism’s rage that Russia continues to stand up for itself and its allies.

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?

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.

USA / The US election hacking scandal

The trumped up charges against the Russian government.

British politics / Crisis in the Labour party

With every day it is becoming more apparent that war criminals are eminently more acceptable to the imperialist Labour party than a mildly anti-war leader.

Venezuela / Venezuela: Maduro takes control

As the corporate media churns out sensational headlines about food shortages, the Venezuelan government stands by its word and starts to take control of production and distribution.

Civil liberties / Police lies revealed at Hillsborough; Orgreave must be next

Inquiry reveals police guilt for 96 unnecessary deaths in Sheffield, and highlights the militarised and anti-worker culture that grew out of the political policing of the miners’ strike five years earlier.

Ukraine / Eurovision circus but no bread

The imperialist media support for opponents of Russia, including criminals and/or fascists, is relentless and shameless.

British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.

Ukraine / Deeper into the quagmire

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

Books / A Nobel prize for literature in the service of reaction

Art and popular history can be powerful tools in manipulating people's minds, and the imperialists are well-versed in using both to bolster their parasitic rule.

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.

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.

Culture / Book: Go Set a Watchman

A poignant tale of the difficulties of breaking away from reactionary traditions.

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?

Venezuela / Venezuela under attack as next election approaches

The imperialists and their local stooges are once more pulling out all the stops to sabotage the economy and subvert the people’s will in the hopes of bringing to an end the revolutionary movement towards socialism that is being led by the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

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

An excuse for an orgy of bourgeois lies and prevarication.

Americas / Turmoil in Argentina as US imperialism struggles to regain its lost paradise

A tale of banksters, fraudsters, vultures and black ops.

China / Tiananmen Square: a US-backed attempt at counter-revolution

How the US tried to apply its colour-revolution formula to China, complete with the big lie of a non-existent ‘massacre’.

Ukraine / Editorial: Who benefits from the shooting of the Malaysian plane?

Neither Russia nor the anti-fascist self-defence forces of the Donbass have anything to gain by perpetrating such an atrocity.

Egypt / Egypt: The overthrow of political Islam was the work of the masses themselves

With the exposure of the Muslim Brotherhood as a false friend of the people, all eyes are now on the army to see whether it – or any part of it – can be of use in the people’s continuing quest for freedom.

Media / A schoolboy’s Christmas letter to Amnesty International

Media / Letter from Comrade Isabel Crook in China

Veteran revolutionary expresses her appreciation for factual analysis in a world dominated by lying imperialist media.

Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth

The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.

China / The just stance of people’s China in the case of drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh

Why are British media so concerned with the fate of a man convicted of pushing hard drugs in Xinjiang?

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.

China / Uyghur provocations: oppose the balkanisation of China

Riots in Xinjiang have been provoked by US imperialism, which is desperate to break the unity of China and the Chinese people in its pursuit of global hegemony.

Myanmar / Burma: imperialists exploit natural disaster to promote regime change

Western leaders are livid at the foiling of their attempts to smuggle spies into Burma under cover of ‘sending aid’.

British politics / Editorial: Jade Goody is a product of capitalist society