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On 6 December 2017, Donald Trump, the US president, made an announcement officially recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. With vice-president Mike Pence, Trump’s conduit to the evangelical Christians, a key constituency of his political base, standing right behind him, it was an announcement designed to please this significant portion of the American electorate and, simultaneously, … [Read more…]

A week into December, the Russian president Vladimir Putin made the following announcement concerning the situation in Syria: “Two hours ago, the defence minister reported to me that the operations on the eastern and western banks of the Euphrates have been completed with the total rout of the terrorists. Naturally, there could still be some … [Read more…]

The issue of the border between the British-occupied six north-eastern counties of Ireland and the 26-County Republic has emerged as one of the key stumbling blocks in Britain’s tortuous path towards leaving the European Union. With the toxic mixture of imperial arrogance, short-sightedness and cynical duplicity that has always characterised British imperialism’s attitude to the … [Read more…]

Corbynite ‘left-wingers’ have apparently taken over the Council of the London Borough of Haringey in a ‘purge’ if the right-wing press is to be believed. There is the usual nonsense about ‘ruthless attacks’ by the left (see for example, Pippa Crerar, ‘Corbynistas purge of moderates in London gathers momentum’, Evening Standard, 30 November 2017). In … [Read more…]

Before the coup which installed the Kiev junta in 2014, Ukraine’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stood at $183bn. This has now halved to $93bn. Since Russia responded to hostile trade sanctions by stopping the import of consumer goods from Ukraine, Ukraine has lost $15bn a year (‘Ukraine is Europe’s poorest nation’, RT, 11 December 2017). … [Read more…]

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is dead. Having betrayed his makeshift Houthi allies on 2 December, he died at their hands on December 4. Saleh had announced he was abandoning his Houthi allies to join forces with their Saudi enemies. This was the type of double-crossing manoeuvre which had previously secured Saleh a 34 … [Read more…]

On Sunday 26 November, 2017, Honduran voters went to the polls to elect a President, 128 members of the unicameral National Congress, 20 members for the Central American Parliament and mayors for the municipalities of Honduras. The count is usually carried out at the polling station with the tally being written down and signed by … [Read more…]

According to Forbes, on 27 October Jeff Bezos became officially the world’s richest man as shares in his company, Amazon, jumped 13%. Meanwhile a recent Sunday Mirror investigation revealed that overworked Amazon workers are falling asleep on their feet as they endure long hours and sometimes compulsory overtime. For £8.20 an hour they are worked … [Read more…]

The conduct of Soviet policy just preceding the Second World War in regard to Finland and the three Baltic Republics of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania was solely determined by the necessity of safeguarding Soviet frontiers against imperialist aggression, particularly German imperialist aggression. There was at the time a propaganda barrage in the imperialist press which … [Read more…]

Introduction British imperialist propaganda has created the myth that Churchill was the foremost fighter against fascism. The truth, however, is that he was a racist, rabidly anti-communist, reactionary with considerable sympathies for fascism. His main concern was the defence of the British empire. Circumstances forced him to align, albeit insincerely and half-heartedly, with the Soviet … [Read more…]