The Downing Street memo

According to recently leaked documents, which have come to be known as the Downing Street Memo, the war against Iraq would be neither legal nor sensible but very dangerous. One of the documents is a personal letter from the British foreign minister, Jack Straw, to prime minister Blair. In this letter, dated March 2002, a … [Read more…]

Iraq: Anglo-American occupation in quagmire

Following the bogus and rigged elections held in Iraq on 30 January 2005, Anglo-American imperialism had hoped that the Iraqi people would be duped into giving up their resistance to the brutal occupation of their country on the alleged ground that Iraq now had a democratically-elected sovereign government. The Iraqi people have burst asunder this … [Read more…]

ID cards: What the government is trying to push through

The first generation of biometric passwords is due to be issued from 2006. The government is planning to start issuing ID cards in 2008. The ID cards database, if it becomes a reality, will be the largest biometric database in the world, storing iris patterns and fingerprints in addition to other details, such as photograph, … [Read more…]

Harilaos Florakis 1914 – 2005

Harilaos Florakis, one of the veterans of the Greek working class and communist movement passed away on 22 May. While sending our condolences to his family, friends and comrades, we wish to stress the role this remarkable man played in fighting against liquidationism in the aftermath of the counter-revolution in the USSR. Harilaos Florakis was … [Read more…]

Book review by Mario Sousa: “Stalingrad” by Antony Beevor – a piece of Nazi war propaganda

“The bourgeoisie”, said Engels, “turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is a part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods: it falsified the writing of history. And the best-paid historiography is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie … ” … [Read more…]

The truth about Zimbabwe

For the last 5 years, Zimbabwe has been subjected to a vile campaign of vilification and demonisation for no other reason than that it gave land to correct the century-long historical injustice of skewed land ownership. This campaign reached its crescendo in the period leading up to the Zimbabwean parliamentary election at the end of … [Read more…]

The truth about Zimbabwe

For the last 5 years, Zimbabwe has been subjected to a vile campaign of vilification and demonisation for no other reason than that it gave land to correct the century-long historical injustice of skewed land ownership. This campaign reached its crescendo in the period leading up to the Zimbabwean parliamentary election at the end of … [Read more…]

Greetings to the Vietnamese people on the 30th anniversary of their victory against US imperialism

For nearly 20 years the Vietnamese people fought against US imperialism. Such was the virility of their struggle, such was the heroism with which the nation fought against imperialism, that they fired the imagination and revolutionary enthusiasm of working people everywhere. There was hardly a country in the world in which there was not a … [Read more…]

Greetings to the Vietnamese people on the 30th anniversary of their victory against US imperialism

For nearly 20 years the Vietnamese people fought against US imperialism. Such was the virility of their struggle, such was the heroism with which the nation fought against imperialism, that they fired the imagination and revolutionary enthusiasm of working people everywhere. There was hardly a country in the world in which there was not a … [Read more…]