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The violent overthrow of Ivory Coast’s government by French imperialism, in cahoots with northern rebel militia and with the hypocritical blessing of the UN, signals not the end but the beginning of yet another round of cruel civil strife inflicted on the Ivorian people by imperialism. Yet this desperate stab at recolonising Africa by brute … [Read more…]

On 9 April, the electorate of the small north European country of Iceland, for the second time, rejected, in a referendum, a proposal by their social democratic government that they accept a regime of enforced penury so as to repay, at onerous rates of interest, the British and Dutch governments, for the payments made by … [Read more…]

On the 12 April 1961, Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin made history as the first human being to enter space, in Vostok 1 a Soviet spaceship.  His flight lasted just 108 minutes, the distance travelled before he ejected to return to earth by parachute was 40,806 Km and 600M.  He had reached a maximum height of 327Km … [Read more…]

Part 1The uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and other parts of the Arab world are universally recognised to be related to the escalating cost of staple foods in those countries.  Although food prices have risen everywhere, it is in third-world countries that the price hikes have been highest, and there is nothing, apart from war, like … [Read more…]

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounces in the strongest terms the criminal murder of Italian solidarity activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza, and offers its deepest condolences to the family of the martyr, the Italian people, the global solidarity movement with the Palestinian people, and all who care for justice. The Front expresses … [Read more…]

William Hague, former Conservative leader and current Foreign Secretary, has personally intervened in a dispute involving two British oil companies and one of the world’s poorest nations.Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that Hague, along with Conservative MP Henry Bellingham, lobbied heavily on behalf of Tullow Oil, who was embroiled in a … [Read more…]

Interview with Mohamed Hassan, a former Ethiopian ambassador, and leading expert in the politics of the Middle East and the Arab and Islamic world generally.Interview conducted by Grégoire Lalieu and Michel Collon on 1 February  2011, i.e., after the Tunisian revolution but before the downfall of Mubarak. – translated from French original. Reproduced from the … [Read more…]

As the cuts in public spending, jobs, wages, benefits, services etc., resulting from the crisis of over-production, still only in the early stages, begin to bite harder, the lie machine of social democracy (the agents of imperialism within our ranks who seek always to lead us down the road of voting for the Labour Party … [Read more…]

The publication of the Palestine Papers by Al-Jazeera, and by The Guardian, has come as a great shock to those who believed that Israel and/or the US ever sincerely sought to bring peace to Palestine through the 2-state solution that was agreed in Oslo.  Indeed, they have made it clear that they are only interested … [Read more…]

The Socialist Party gets it half rightThe decision taken by the National Shop Stewards Network at a special conference on 22nd January to put its growing weight behind a national anti-cuts campaign, with organised labour at its core, is welcome news.  The rising tide of popular support amongst union militants for the proposal to break … [Read more…]