Syria – Turkey plays with conflagration

In recent weeks the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has made steady progress towards the liberation of the province of Idlib, the last terrorist stronghold in Syria. The HTS, better known as al-Nusra, have occupied the would-be de-escalation zone and used it as a base from which to launch thousands of terror attacks in the past … [Read more…]

The anti-China coronavirus panic

A well-established feature of the influenza virus is that it mutates, and that its mutations sometimes enable it to leap from one species to another. This is something humanity has always lived with, cursed at the inconvenience, mourned the victims who die before their time and struggled manfully to find a cure for. Until a … [Read more…]

Deal of the Century: US and Israel will reap a bitter harvest

Trump’s ‘deal of the century’, breathlessly flagged up back in the summer, was finally officially launched on 28 January. The announcement came at a press conference shared jointly between the US president and Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with ambassadors from Gulf statelets United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Bahrain pulled in to make up … [Read more…]

The oligarch behind today’s World Holocaust Forum attended by presidents and kings

Reproduced from If Americans Knew website, with thanks At least 45 world leaders have responded to a summons to attend the World Holocaust Forum in Israel to ‘fight antisemitism.’ The event is organized by a Russian-Israeli oligarch who considers support for Palestinian human rights ‘antisemitic.’ He is promoting an Orwellian program that would criminalize ‘intolerance’ … [Read more…]

Korea stands firm – Comrade Kim Jong Un’s new year speech

Kim Jong Un’s traditional New Year speech summing up the experience of the previous year and setting out tasks for the year to come was made this year at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on 1 January 2020. Here follow extracts from his speech: Praise … [Read more…]

The Amritsar massacre

Contemporary letter to The Times To the Editor. February 24, 1920, Sir, It will ultimately rest with the British public, through their representatives in Parliament, to decide as to the culpability of its various servants concerned in the massacre and other disgraceful doings at Amritsar and Lahore. As one who was present at the scene … [Read more…]

RSPCA: You wouldn’t treat a dog like this

Staff at the animal charity RSPCA are wishing that their management would extend its compassion for other people’s maltreated pets to its own human employees who actually do the hard work on the front line. Shortly before Christmas last year workers were told that the existing system of incremental payments, only recently agreed, was to … [Read more…]

Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, the American professor of linguistics, is well known in progressive circles for the courageous stand he took against US imperialism on the question of the Vietnam war, and which he continues to take on the question of peace in the Middle East. Because he sets a fine example of courage and principle on … [Read more…]

The Doctors’ Plot – A presentation made by Paul Cannon to the Stalin Society in London in December 2019

The ‘Doctors’ Plot’ refers to allegations made against a group of doctors who worked in the Soviet Union and were accused of purposely providing poor treatment to notable leaders of the USSR. The plot became a popular piece of anti-communist propaganda for three chief reasons. Firstly, because the doctors were said to have plotted against … [Read more…]