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Volodymyr Zelensky won the Ukrainian presidential elections on two main pledges: to end the war in the east and to uproot corruption. How has his government fared in meeting these two promises? Ending the war? The election results seemed to reflect a war-weariness that was widely interpreted as a rejection of former president Poroshenko’s unremitting … [Read more…]

Reproduced from People’s Democracy of 1st and 22nd September 2019, with thanks SAUDI Arabia, which started the Yemen war with its own coalition of the willing, is now facing the blow-back with Houthis launching a series of drone and missile attacks on infrastructure. Earlier Houthi missile attacks on Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports seems to … [Read more…]

On September 24, 2019 the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. This in itself is slightly strange as there is already supposed to be an impeachment inquiry into President Trump that was formally started on 12 September by the House Judiciary Committee when it … [Read more…]

“A woman gave birth alone in her cell in the early hours of the morning with no one to help or comfort her through her labour and her baby died. This happened not in a Victorian workhouse, or in some forsaken, wartorn country but in Surrey at HMP Bronzefield less than three weeks ago” reports … [Read more…]

The workers have paid a heavy price for their employer’s return to profitability. Fifty thousand workers at General Motors plants across the USA were on strike for 40 days from 15 September, demanding that the company restore the jobs, pay scales and conditions that they enjoyed before the company went bust in 2007. During that … [Read more…]

Mail workers are ready to fight for their pay and conditions, but is their union prepared to back them? Royal Mail workers have voted by a landslide in favour of taking industrial action. Ninety-seven percent of union members voted for action on a turnout of 76 percent. Since the privatisation of Royal Mail in 2015, … [Read more…]

Joblessness is being under-reported by a factor of 200 percent. A joint study by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and urban policy research unit Centre for Cities reveals that the true level of unemployment in Britain is not the official figure of 1.3 million usually quoted, but is actually closer to … [Read more…]

A hero of the Soviet space programme died on 11 October aged 85. Alexei Leonov was a friend and comrade of the legendary Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and his own major contribution was to be the first person to walk in space. This feat was achieved in 1965 when Leonov was 30 … [Read more…]

Part 2 (continued from previous issue) Government in 1819 The National Government Nationally, the Tories had been in power since 1783 and were to continue in power until 1830 (including very brief periods of coalition government with the Whigs), when, after the death of George IV (the Prince Regent until 1820), a period of Whig … [Read more…]

More and more evidence keeps coming in of the way education opportunity for working-class children is being whittled away. Plagued by the need to stay well up in the league tables in order to attract pupils, and therefore funding, and therefore to survive, state schools have naturally enough engaged in all kinds of underhand methods … [Read more…]