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On 1 January this year a few hundred people demonstrated in the city of Zhanaozen, which lies a thousand miles southwest of Nur Sultan (formerly Astana), the capital city of Kazakhstan.  Originally begun as a protest against a steep hike in the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the favourite fuel for cars in the … [Read more…]

Reproduced from Amnesty International’s website, with thanks. Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today [1 February 2022] in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system … [Read more…]

Reproduced from Workers’ World, with thanks December 2, 2021, was the 46th anniversary of the end of the Laotian Civil War. Not only did the Royal Lao Government, in power from 1947 to 1975, fall that day, but also the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, a socialist nation with a Marxist-Leninist government, was established and remains … [Read more…]

As we come out of the Covid pandemic we are being hurtled into another world pandemic – a pandemic of rising prices and falling standards of living.  British households are being warned that they can on average expect a 2% fall in their living standards in 2022 as compared to 2021 as a result of … [Read more…]

Following on from the preparatory laws that have been added lately to the state armoury for oppressing workers and putting down any possible insurrections or even disagreements with government taken to the streets in protest, we now see the Nationality and Borders Bill sat in the Committee stage of its journey through the House of … [Read more…]

Kim Philby is a famous traitor – to British imperialism.  He spent the best years of his life working in the interests of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against those who sought to undermine it and finish it off, mainly Nazi Germany and British imperialism.  His most important work took place during the Second … [Read more…]

by Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos Chinese propaganda and the fight against US Imperialism, Socialist legacies in today’s context A Chinese war film was the biggest blockbuster of 2021, outpacing the latest James Bond movie. The Battle at Lake Changjin is an epic war film commissioned by the Communist Party of China and reportedly the … [Read more…]

The Labour Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has made endless headlines with his promises of building large numbers of council homes.  In his 2021 election manifesto, he boasted about the: ‘record-breaking progress  made on increasing the numbers of genuinely affordable homes being built across London.’  Anyone with real-life experience of London’s housing problems will know … [Read more…]