Interview to Pravda Correspondent Concerning Mr Winston Churchill’s Speech at Fulton, March, 1946 [‘Iron curtain’]

Source: J.V Stalin on Post-War International Relations, Soviet News, 1947 Reproduced from Marxists Internet Archive, with thanks TOWARDS the middle of March, 1946, a Pravda correspondent requested J.V Stalin to clarify a number of questions connected with Mr Churchill’s speech at Fulton, USA. Below are J. V. Stalin’s replies to the correspondent’s questions. Question: How … [Read more…]

The Indian election result

BJP and Modi brought down to earth The 7-phase multi-week election in India ended on 2 June.  642 million of the 1 billion registered to vote actually did vote.  From the relatively small states like Uttarakhand to the huge provinces such as UP (Uttar Pradesh – which has more registered voters than the entire population … [Read more…]

South Africa – The unfinished liberation struggle

“We do not agree to this marriage of convenience to consolidate white monopoly power over the economy and the means of production. This is a grand coalition between the ANC and white monopoly capital” – Julius Malema – Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters -Speech to the South African parliament June 2024. The … [Read more…]

Julian is free at last!

On 24 June 2024 Julian Assange was at last freed from the notorious punishment jail, Belmarsh, following a plea bargain deal made with the US authorities.  It was agreed that he would be freed in return for pleading guilty to one of the lesser charges levied against him – conspiracy to obtain and publish classified … [Read more…]

New Caledonia’s indigenous population demand freedom

The Kanak inhabitants of the islands before the French seized it and colonised it in 1853, want control of their homeland returned to its inhabitants.  They want sovereignty for their islands, although today the Kanaks only comprise 40% of the population.  The remainder are settlers, for the most part either from mainland France or from … [Read more…]

Continued Zionist genocide in Gaza

Six months on, the Israeli genocidal war machine carries on its daily slaughter of innocent Palestinian men, women and children, relentlessly and remorselessly,  Nearly 34,000 Palestinians have been murdered in cold blood; another 5,000 are missing, probably buried in the rubble to which Gaza has been reduced through indiscriminate bombing by the Israeli air force; … [Read more…]

The Missiles of April

by SCOTT RITTER Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the ‘ground truth’ about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into … [Read more…]

Ukraine – chaos in the anti-Russia front

On Friday 22 March the Crocus City Hall near Moscow came under attack by terrorists. As some 6,000 people attended a rock concert in the hall in Krasnogorsk, a north Moscow suburb, the venue came under attack by four gunmen who fired randomly into the crowd and then set the hall alight, causing the roof … [Read more…]

The role of the IMF impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded at the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944.  This financial agency presents an image of itself as a democratic organisation that works “to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries… by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation”. Nothing could … [Read more…]