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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…]

Reproduced from The Atlantic, with thanks China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they can’t afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the end goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its struggling borrowers. As states around the world … [Read more…]

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the WPK, gave the report on the work of the 7th Central Committee of the Party from January 5 to January 7. The main idea and spirit of the 8th party congress were to increase tremendously the power of Juche, the domestic driving force of the socialist construction to achieve … [Read more…]

Lately, the imperialist print and electronic propaganda arms have devoted an inordinate amount of time and space to the case of the notorious criminal and fraudster, Alexei Navalny. Prestigious newspapers have day after day given him front-page coverage; media organisations from the BBC to CNN have devoted countless hours of their peak time broadcasts to … [Read more…]

Greetings to all the intellectual movements, communist parties and publishing houses of the international left on the 173rd anniversary of the publication in London of the Communist Manifesto, who have come together to celebrate it, celebrating by sharing the central idea of Marx and Engels. As you know, the Communist Manifesto is a political document, … [Read more…]

The East was read is a conglomeration of beautifully written essays that provides informative objective facts about socialist states – primarily the USSR and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – in cultural intercourse with countries in the non-aligned camp (aka the Third World). It also provides anecdotal cases of individuals in those countries absorbing … [Read more…]

I wish to congratulate Comrade Harpal Brar on his most recent work Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. This work has been long overdue in the international Communist movement, and Comrade Harpal has rendered invaluable assistance and clarification to this most contentious issue. As Comrade Harpal expresses in the preface of his book, the issue of “market … [Read more…]

There was great jubilation outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 4 January when the news was announced that the court had turned down the US government’s request for the extradition of Julian Assange. It has turned out, however, that the celebrations were premature, since Julian was not freed from Belmarsh prison as one might have expected … [Read more…]