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Reproduced from Palestine Chronicle of 1 April 2021, with thanks Butler University in Indianapolis has canceled a scheduled event featuring iconic political activist Angela Davis this week in what seems to be another example of the ongoing campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists against the American civil rights movement. Davis was scheduled to speak at an event … [Read more…]

On 5 February 2021 Health Policy Insight published a leaked draft of a White Paper outlining plans for an NHS overhaul. The proposals, supposedly emanating from needs highlighted by the Covid pandemic, promised to remove bureaucracy from the NHS, to integrate health care with social care, and to give local authorities more control over provision … [Read more…]

In the wake of the events at the Capitol and the election of Biden as President of the USA, a great variety of ‘left’ parties have found common cause. Their unity is based upon an incoherent and fundamentally flawed conception of the state and fascism. New unity Self-identifying ‘left wing’ groups all over Europe and … [Read more…]

On 1 February 2021 the government led by Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown in a military coup. It is hard, however, to make sense of this coup as the civilian government in Myanmar was really only a figleaf behind which stood continuing military control of the country. One Burmese commentator wrote: “This coup doesn’t … [Read more…]

The Yemeni armed forces and their popular auxiliaries have now for six years stood firm against the US-backed and Saudi-led genocidal war against the Yemeni people. The national liberation forces, organised around the popular Ansarullah movement, have prevented every attempt to restore the Riyadh-backed puppet government of Mansour Hadi to power. In their courageous struggle … [Read more…]

Zionism has opened up another front in its genocidal war of attrition against the Palestinians, deliberately withholding the Covid vaccine from Palestinians living on the West Bank and Gaza. This effectively weaponises the virus, adding biological warfare to Israel’s arsenal of oppression. By its refusal to offer vaccination to Palestinians, Israel is openly flouting international … [Read more…]

While the Zionists and their imperialist backers, including ‘liberal’ imperialists, have been searching every nook and cranny to look for signs of anti-semitism in the most unlikely of quarters, they studiously avert their gaze from the elephant in the room, namely, the daily and hourly crimes committed by the racist Zionist state of Israel against … [Read more…]

When Elon Musk announced that he was quitting California for rax reasons, it was greeted as a vindication of Texas’s low-tax, light-touch retime. Texas is home to nearly a tenth of the US population and is a champion of deregulation. Since 2019 it has attracted 80,000 Californians to move to Texas. If they thought they … [Read more…]

On 4 November last year, the Ethiopian government sent the army into the Tigray area of the country to quell an armed rebellion led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). On 28 November, the army had taken control of the regional capital, Mekele. Thousands of ordinary people had fled the area into neighbouring Sudan … [Read more…]

The following speech was given on 25 January 2021 by Australian anti-imperialist activist Jay Tharappel on behalf of the Yemen Solidarity Council at an online antiwar meeting hosted by the Workers Party of Britain. Thank you to the Workers Party of Britain for putting on this event in solidarity with the people of Yemen. It’s … [Read more…]