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Oil highlights

  • Climate change / Demonising fossil fuels will not tackle the environmental crisis

    Only nationalisation of the energy sector will allow us to make rational plans to safeguard both our energy supplies and our future.

    2 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Kazakhstan / Failed ‘colour revolution’ in Kazakhstan

    Quick and decisive action by Russia and the CSTO has dealt a blow to the USA’s nefarious schemes in central Asia.

    12 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Economy / BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar

    Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.

    11 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Cop26: Fiddling while the world burns

    Awash with fossil fuel lobbyists and corporate sponsors, the latest ‘climate conference’ was just another greenwashing exercise for monopoly capital.

    19 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    13 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    13 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Africa / President Idriss Déby of Chad: death of an imperialist puppet

    After decades of kleotocratic tyranny, French and US imperialists are working to ensure power passes to Déby's equally corrupt and unpopular son.

    26 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    20 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • Yemen / US falters over Yemen war, while Britain stops its ears

    While the US looks to hide its defeat behind talk of peace and principles, Britain continues blatantly to prioritise the interests of its arms manufacturers.

    12 Mar 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    28 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    6 Sep 2020 , Lalkar
  • Belarus / Hands off Belarus!

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

    29 Aug 2020 , Lalkar
  • Lebanon / Tragedy in Lebanon

    The blast in Beirut port may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

    28 Aug 2020 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    23 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / Bank of England must hand back Venezuela’s gold

    Britain’s latest theft is part of a long history of looting and aggression against the Venezuelan people, who continue to struggle for their independence and freedom.

    8 Jul 2020 , Lalkar
  • Venezuela / Iran smashes US blockade on Venezuela with fuel delivery

    The axis of resistance is building its network of practical solidarity in the teeth of imperialist opposition.

    11 Jun 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

    Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

    26 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    6 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    3 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • Iraq / Iraq stands at a crossroads

    Who is attempting to manipulate the just anger of the Iraqi people and why?

    2 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • North Africa and Middle East / Cheap drones and the shifting strategic balance in west Asia

    18 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    27 Nov 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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’?

    1 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • Yemen / Saudi Arabia takes a flogging

    The Saudi dog has been beaten in full view of the US lion; and if the lesson is lost on imperialism, it may find itself embroiled in a fight that will undermine its very foundations.

    4 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    12 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Iran / Britain falters onto the warpath against Iran

    With so much else on their plate, Britain’s rulers may not be keen to follow the US into yet another doomed war.

    6 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Iran / False flags flying over Hormuz strait

    President Trump has yet to light the fuse on the war his hawks are pushing. If he does, the US will live to regret it.

    9 Jul 2019 , Lalkar
  • 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?

    16 Jun 2019 ,
  • Libya / Libyan, migrant and European workers all pawns in the great imperial game

    The imperialists are desperate to carve up and plunder a way out of the chaos they have created in Libya, but unable to unite around a common strategy.

    21 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    8 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • North Africa and Middle East / World War One in the middle east and its aftermath

    How British and French imperialism carved up the middle east with the backing of their US bankers.

    17 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    10 Jan 2019 ,
  • Energy / Government plans to push fracking through the back door

    If we want to save our planet, we’ll need to get rid of capitalism.

    11 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • North Africa and Middle East / Saudi vs Qatar: thieves fall out

    A sign of waning US imperialist power?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Frack flak buried

    The government is trying to push ahead with fracking despite environmental and economic objections.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Imperialism’s oil game

    What will be the outcome of the law of unforeseen consequences?

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Fracking the world away?

    Capitalism can’t be trusted to take care of our environment or our health.

    1 Aug 2013 , Proletarian
  • 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.

    1 Jun 2009 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Editorial: Imperialist agenda in Ukraine (2004)

    What is the true meaning and content of the so-called ‘Orange revolution’?

    1 Dec 2004 , Proletarian

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Oil video

  • Americas / Cuba’s view of Venezuela: Cuban ambassador to Britain speaks

    The media war against Venezuela is part of the US’s drive to control the entire continent, and especially Venezuela’s important oil and coltan reserves.

    10 Apr 2019, Proletarian TV

Oil theory

  • Capitalist crisis / The oil slump and its ramifications

    In attempting to retain domination over the oil market, Saudi Arabia has alienated its most important ally, supporter and protector.

    19 May 2020, Lalkar

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