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Ukrainian elections, which returned a TV comedian for President, raised as many questions as eyebrows. The winner, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been said in many quarters to represent a bright ‘new direction’ for Ukraine, a ‘breaking of the mould’, and a ‘new dawn’, in short, all the usual nonsense uttered by imperialism when it backs every … [Read more…]

On Saturday 16 March I saw a performance by the city of Birmingham symphony orchestra (CBSO) of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5. The symphony took up the second half of the performance, with the period before the interval dedicated to a mixed bag from Shostakovich’s ‘the Limpid Stream’ and his Piano Concerto No 1. Workers are … [Read more…]

It might be asked why we should have any particular interest in the conduct of the class struggle in Transcaucasia which was carried out by the Bolsheviks. Beyond the fact that JV Stalin is known as a Georgian, little is known amongst our comrades about the history of the region. Generally speaking, our comrades know … [Read more…]

6 June has marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings by US and British forces mainly. They set sail on 6 June 1944 for Normandy on the northern coast of France. This year’s anniversary was marked with great pomp and ceremony. Invited to the celebrations were the US president Donald Trump, the French president … [Read more…]

The renegade President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, has ordered the eviction of Julian Assange from his country’s embassy in London and a team of police was invited into the embassy to effect the eviction. Mr Assange was immediately arrested on 11 April on a charge of jumping bail, which is likely to lead to his … [Read more…]

Extracts from the speech of Comrade Kim Jong Un at the First Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 12 April 2019. Dear Deputies, Geographically, Korea is sandwiched between big countries and its territory remains divided. Our Republic is conducting socialist construction as the hostile forces are … [Read more…]

Since 2002 the AKP (Justice and Development Party) has won every election it has contested. Whatever we as communists may think about Erdogan and the AKP, that electoral success has to be acknowledged and understood. Whilst Erdogan and the AKP have instigated wide ranging anti-worker policies (detailed these last ten years in various articles in … [Read more…]

(By Sohini C, reproduced from the South China Morning Post of 12 April 2019, with thanks) • Soil sampling from the period of the second world war was reported in a science journal, concluding that the Bengali famine of the 1940s was caused only by ‘complete policy failure’. And it’s not the only evidence out … [Read more…]

At the end of March US President Donald Trump made a great song and dance about the ‘liberation’ of Baghouz, declared to be the last stronghold of Islamic State (IS). So eager was he to fend off critics of his avowed plan to withdraw from Syria, and come up with some kind of victory to … [Read more…]

Petro Poroshenko, the leader chosen by the West to transform Ukraine into a vassal state of the EU and a launchpad for NATO provocations against Russia, has been crushingly defeated in the presidential election on 21 April. His opponent in the run-off, Volodymyr Zelensky, secured a full three quarters of the vote. This confirmed the … [Read more…]